5 candidates for Tennessee to replace Kellie Harper, including Duke's Kara Lawson

Tennessee women’s basketball is one of the most storied programs in the sport, the house that the late, great coaching legend Pat Summitt built and one of the marquee destinations for any coach.

The job opened up on Monday after the school parted ways with Kellie Harper after five seasons.

Tennessee is immediately the top coaching job open in all of college women’s basketball, and it will have no shortage of interested parties.

While there are plenty of names out there who would likely be intrigued by this job, we’ve looked at five possible candidates who would make a ton of sense for the Volunteers. Let’s see who they are and why they’d make sense for Tennessee.