Tennessee’s Alexis Hornbuckle, center, celebrates in front of LSU’s Quianna Chaney (15) as time runs out in Tennessee’s win over LSU in an NCAA women’s Final Four. Associated Press Photo.

TAMPA, Fla. — Alexis Hornbuckle keeps coming up with big shots for Tennessee at just the right time.

Hornbuckle’s putback with seven-tenths of a second left lifted the Lady Vols to a 47-46 victory over LSU in Sunday night’s national semifinal. It was the lowest scoring game in Final Four history.

“You got to give Alexis a lot of credit,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said. “She’s come up with some big plays for us in late seconds.”

Tennessee (35-2) moved within a win of its eighth national championship. To do it, the Lady Vols will have to beat Stanford, which stunned Connecticut 82-73 in the other semifinal.

The Lady Vols are looking to become the first repeat champions since the Huskies won three straight titles from 2002-04.

It’s the second straight game that Hornbuckle made a late basket that helped Tennessee advance. She hit a deep 3-pointer in the final minute against Texas A&M that let the Lady Vols pull away from the Aggies.

On Sunday night, the senior missed her first seven shots before the winning tip-in.

“I couldn’t make a shot all night, but honestly, that was the only one that mattered,” Hornbuckle said. “I just wanted to stay positive, and I crashed the boards and looked up and I said I didn’t want to pull this down, with my luck I might as well try to tip it in. And luckily it went in.”

Tennessee clung to a 45-44 lead with 7.1 seconds left when Hornbuckle fouled Erica White on the sideline. The senior calmly stepped up and hit both free throws to give LSU a one-point lead.

After a timeout, Candace Parker drove the length of the court and passed the ball to Nicky Anosike, who missed a layup. Hornbuckle grabbed the rebound and put it back up and in to give Tennessee the one-point lead — and the eventual win.

LSU had one last chance but its inbounds pass with 0.7 seconds left was intercepted at midcourt, and Tennessee celebrated its hard-fought victory.

Parker did all she could with an injured shoulder, scoring 13 points and grabbing 15 rebounds to lead the Lady Vols.

LSU’s Final Four drought continued. The Lady Tigers, who have been a Final Four staple the past five seasons, again failed to make it to the championship game.

All-American Sylvia Fowles scored 24 points and grabbed 20 rebounds to lead LSU (31-6), but it wasn’t enough.

“I got off to a slow start, I think I was either anxious or nervous.” Fowles said. “I picked it up in about the last eight minutes and things started to go my way.”

Fowles, who played all 40 minutes, cramped up in the last few minutes and did the best she could to finish the game.

“It was tough, I kept looking at Ashley Thomas and she kept me motivated and kept telling me there was three minutes to go or two minutes to go, hang in there.”

An exhausted Fowles couldn’t make it to the press conference as her legs cramped up.

Parker’s shoulder clearly wasn’t at 100 percent as she was constantly short on jumpers, including shooting an air ball, but she aggressively went for rebounds with both hands and blocked shots.

She has been rehabbing the shoulder constantly the past few days after dislocating it twice against Texas A&M in the Oklahoma City Regional final. Wearing a white long sleeve shirt underneath her No. 3 jersey for the first time this season, The Associated Press player of the year got off to a slow start offensively missing her first five shots before hitting a turnaround jumper 8 minutes into the first half.

The anticipated matchup between Parker and Fowles — the expected top two picks in the WNBA draft Wednesday — also got off to a slow start as they combined to miss nine of their first 11 shots.

The two guarded each other for parts of the first half. Parker didn’t get going offensively until she had her shot thrown back at her by Fowles when she tried to drive on the 6-foot-6 center. Fowles converted the layup on the other end, but then Parker scored six of the next eight points on an array of moves.

The game got off to a slow start as the teams combined to go 2-for-23 over the first 8 minutes — and it wasn’t because of stellar defense. They were missing open shots, and all the Hall of Fame coaches Summitt and Chancellor could do was smile.

After Parker’s scoring spurt gave the Lady Vols a 19-11 lead with 5:39 left in the half, LSU closed with a 7-3 run at the intermission to make it 22-18. It was the lowest scoring half in Final Four history. The 18 points by LSU broke the record for futility the Lady Tigers set last season, when they had 19 in the first half against Rutgers.

LSU scored the first five points of the second half to take a 25-24 lead — its first since midway through the first half.

Tennessee answered with a 12-2 run as Shannon Bobbitt hit two 3-pointers to give the Lady Vols a 37-27 lead — its largest — with 11:15 left.