Chattanooga Basketball
Postgame Notes
Missouri 99, Chattanooga 56
Mizzou Arena - Columbia, Mo.
Nov. 24, 2009
Team
- Chattanooga is now 2-2 on the season after a 99-56 loss at Missouri Tuesday night. Missouri is3-0, all games played in the Mizzou Arena.
- The series is now 4-0 in Missouri's favor. All four games have been played in conjunction with an in-season tournament, the last two in preliminary round games.
- UTC is now 161-214 on the road in the DI era. The Mocs are 612-359 as a DI program (33rd season).
- Head Coach John Shulman is now 92-74 in his sixth year, 23-43 on the road. He is 0-2 against Missouri, both game played at Missouri in the last two seasons.
- The Mocs held a 33-31 advantage on the boards led by Ridge McKeither with eight.
- The Mocs had a season-high 29 turnovers. They had 21 at the break, and in the second half despite the Tigers keeping their regular rotation in until the final two minutes.
- Jacob Stout of Centralia, Mo., hit a half-court shot during the halftime promotion which won him $5,000.
- The Mocs still played without the services of three scholarship players (Troy Cage, Chris Early, Ty Patterson).
- The 24 steals by the Tigers is a new Missouri team record. The 18 three-pointers made is a Mizzou Arena record.
- Tonight's game and the Richmond matchup are part of the South Padre Island Invitational. The Mocs, Tigers and Spiders will join five other programs during Thanksgiving weekend in South Padre Island, Texas for the tournament portion of the event. The Mocs are matched up Friday in one bracket against the University of Texas-Pan American and will face either Bethune-Cookman or Longwood on Saturday. Richmond and Missouri will be joined in the other bracket by Old Dominion and Mississippi State.
- The four-game, nine-day road trip is just two games and four days through. Round-trip, the Mocs will travel 3,886 miles.
Individual
Junior DeAntre Jefferson
- Led the Mocs with 12 points on 3-4 shooting from the field and 6-6 from the free throw line off the bench.
Junior Jeff Smith
- Made his first career start playing at the 4.
- Scored 7 points and grabbed three boards.
- Had a strong slam dunk on a drive through the paint with 13:37 left in the game.
Sophomore Dante Harvey
- Saw his first action of the season coming off an MCL sprain (knee). He checked in at 12:06 during the Mocs' 30-second timeout.
