Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Notes
Hiwassee vs. Chattanooga
McKenzie Arena – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Monday – Nov. 16, 2015TEAM- 94-55 win over Hiwassee in the home season opener…2-0 for the young season, the Tigers fall to 4-4.
- Chattanooga starts 2-0 for the first time since 2009-10…opened season with wins over Virginia Intermont and East Tennessee State before losing at Richmond…last 3-0 opening was 1997-98.
- Last time the program posted 90 or more in back-to-back games was Dec. 29-30, 2008 in wins over Tennessee Wesleyan (102-70) and Niagara (99-84) in the Dr Pepper Classic.
- 6-0 vs. Hiwassee…3-0 over the past three seasons.
- Now 34-5 in home openers in DI era.
- Forced 25 turnovers with 18 steals…28-18 advantage in points off turnovers despite 23 miscues of their own.
- Led for 36:59 leading for 92.5% of the game…that's seven seconds last the amount of time the Mocs were ahead at Georgia on Friday (37:06).
- Shot 56.3 percent from the field (36-64)…best since shooting the same percentage (27-48) against The Citadel on Jan. 31, 2015.
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INDIVIDUALSJustin Tuoyo, Jr.-F- Game-high 16 points…5-6 FG, 6-7 FT.
- 4 blocks…30th multi-block game in 34 appearances.
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Peyton Woods, Fr.-G- Season-high 14 points off the bench…5-9 FG and 4-7 3pt in 19 minutes of action.
- Now 6-11 (54.5%) for the season from 3pt range.
- Most points by a freshman in his home opener since Josh Odem had 16 against Virginia Intermont on Nov. 13, 2009.Â
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Greg Pryor, Jr.-G- 7 points, five assists and six steals in just 15 minutes.
- 6 steals ties career high (Montreat – 12/8/14).
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Coach Matt McCall- Now 2-0 in his career, 1-0 in McKenzie Arena.
- 1st coach to start his UTC career 2-0 since Henry Dickerson (3-0) in 1997-98.
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