Chattanooga Basketball
Postgame Notes
Furman 72, Chattanooga 70
Timmons Arena ? Greenville, S.C.
Feb. 7, 2009
Team
- Chattanooga is now 11-13 on the season and 7-6 in the SoCon with a 72-70 loss in Timmons Arena today... Furman moves to 5-17 overall, 3-10 in league play.
- Chattanooga is now 46-21 against Furman, 16-16 in Greenville.
- Chattanooga entered today tied for first in the North Division with Western Carolina which hosts The Citadel tonight at 7 p.m.
- UTC is now 324-168 in Southern Conference regular-season games.
- The Mocs went 1-1 on the upstate road swing... the last time they swept the Wofford/Furman trip was last season.
- Chattanooga led by as many as 18 in the second half before the Furman comeback.
- The Mocs scored 34 of their 70 points in the paint... 26 of those points came in the first half.
- 14 of the Mocs 22 turnovers came in the second half.
- Chattanooga is now 3-4 on the road in SoCon play.
- UTC conludes its three games in five days stretch Monday at Samford at 8:30 p.m. (EST).
Individual
Senior Stephen McDowell
- 2nd leading scorer in the conference at 19.4 ppg entering tonight's game... scored 16 points on 5-14 shooting from the field, 1-8 from 3-pt range and 5-7 on FTs.
- 45 career double-figure scoring games.
- 204 career 3-pt. FGs, ranking second in school history...Keddric Mays (2006-07) has the record with 209.
- 97 three-pointers made this season is third all-time for a season at UTC... Mays holds the season record with 118 in 2007 and is also in fourth place with 91 in 2006. McDowell's junior season is second with 108.
- 905 career points leaves him 95 points shy of joining teammate Nicchaeus Doaks in the 1,000 point club. He would become the 17th member since Chattanooga's move to DI in 1977-78.
- Now has 998 career points including his two years at South Carolina.
Senior Nicchaeus Doaks
- Scored 13 points on 6-8 FG, 1-2 3-pt, 0-1 FT.
- Now has 1,250 points in his career, 75 behind Lance Fulse (1985-88) in fourth place on the UTC scoring charts.
- Entered game as SoCon's second-leading rebounder at 9.2 rpg...grabbed five tonight.
- Ranks No. 2 in rebounds all-time at UTC with 732...career leader is Fulse with 747.
- 3 rebounds shy of new season best... 219 in 2007-08.
Senior Kevin Goffney
- 13 points on 3-7 FG, 1-3 3-pt, 6-8 FT with five rebounds, four assists and two steals.
- 11 double figure scoring games.
Senior Khalil Hartwell
- 17 points on 7-8 FG, 3-4 FT with nine rebounds, two assists, one block and three steals... team leader in points, rebounds and steals... tied career high in steals.
- 1st game leading the team in scoring this season, six times in his career.
- Team leader in rebounds 10 times this season, 20 in his career.
- 9 double figure scoring games.
- 6 double-digit rebounding games.
- 2 double-doubles in 2008-09.
