New Orleans ? A disputed foul call with time running out, a spinning last-second shot and now a backcourt steal in the waning moments.

Tennessee might not dominate women’s basketball like it used to, but the Vols somehow found their way to an 11th NCAA championship game.

LaToya Davis scored with 1.6 seconds left after LSU’s Temeka Johnson lost the ball in the backcourt, giving the Vols a 52-50 victory over the Tigers in their national semifinal game Sunday night.

“They have low blood pressure,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said of her players. “My blood pressure right now is not even worth checking. … I told them I was really proud of them, but I don’t know how much more of this I could take.”

Little has come easy for the Vols this postseason, but balance and remarkable resiliency have put them back in the title game. They now seek an unprecedented seventh overall championship on the heels of three straight two-point, last-second victories.

With the score tied at 50 and the clock running down, once again Tennessee put the ball in the hands of Tasha Butts, who scored the winning points in the Vols’ last two narrow wins.

She missed this time, giving LSU the ball with six seconds left. But Tennessee trapped Johnson in the backcourt, forcing the turnover when Johnson tripped as she tried to advance past Ashley Robinson. The ball squirted out, and Shyra Ely came up with it and quickly fed Davis underneath for an uncontested layup.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” said Ely, Tennessee’s leading scorer who was held to four points on 1-of-11 shooting. “I just grabbed the loose ball and saw LaToya.”

Tennessee will play Connecticut in Tuesday’s championship.

Shanna Zolman led Tennessee (31-3) with 12 points in the Vols' 52-50 victory over the Tigers in the national semifinals on Sunday night.

“I guess the way we feel is we’re supposed to be here because we keep on finding ways to win,” Ely added.

LSU coach Pokey Chatman tried to deflect criticism from Johnson’s late turnover, noting that LSU made only 12 of 20 free throws, had nine turnovers and allowed Tennessee to score 18 second-chance points.

“It’s probably going to be unfortunate that we’re probably going to talk about the last six seconds of this game, and in my opinion that’s not where this game was lost,” Chatman said.

Seimone Augustus led LSU with 16 points and nine rebounds, but her shooting percentage plummeted from the previous tourney games.

Shanna Zolman led Tennessee (31-3) with 12 points, hitting a three-pointer at the shot-clock buzzer with 1:38 left to give Tennessee a 50-46 lead.

Tennessee's LaToya Davis, bottom, puts in a shot in front of LSU's Florence Williams in the Vols' 52-50 victory. UT won the national semifinal game Sunday in New Orleans.

LSU (27-8) rallied to tie it at 50 when Johnson drove and passed to Tillie Willis with 27.2 seconds left.

But Davis made the final basket. Tennessee players jumped and punched their fists in the air, while LSU looked stunned. LSU could not get off a desperation shot before the final buzzer.

It was the lowest scoring game in women’s Final Four history. The previous was in the 1985 semifinal game, in which Old Dominion defeated and Louisiana-Monroe, 57-47.