Lady Mocs Basketball Postgame Notes vs. College of Charleston - Jan. 31, 2011
1/31/2011 6:59:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Lady Mocs Basketball - Postgame Notes
College of Charleston at Chattanooga
McKenzie Arena - Chattanooga, Tenn.
Monday - Jan. 31, 2011
TEAM
- Chattanooga scores a 65-48 win over the College of Charleston...Lady Mocs improve to 10-11 overall and 7-5 in SoCon action...Cougars drop to 6-16 and 3-10 in the SoCon.
- Head Coach Wes Moore scored his 500th career win...300th win at UTC and 200 SoCon regular season win...more on these milestones below.
- Chattanooga started the game 1-of-11 from the field...Cougars opened on a 10-2 run...Lady Mocs trailed 24-22 at the break...fewest points in the first half of a SoCon game this season.
- UTC went on an 18-5 run to start second half...took a 40-29 lead on a Destiny Bramblett 3-pointer at the 11:28 mark.
- Lady Mocs improve to 3-9 when trailing at the half.
- Chattanooga is 7-0 when leading with 10 minutes left in the game, 8-0 when ahead at the 5:00 mark and 8-0 when leading with two minutes left in the game.
- Just the third win in 14 games for UTC when scoring less than 70 points.
- UTC snaps a two-game slide to the Cougars...Lady Mocs lead the all-time series 24-8, but have lost three of the last five.
- Chattanooga outscored the Cougars 30-16 in the paint.
- Lady Mocs had 19 assists on 24 field goals...the 19 assists were one off of the season-high.
- UTC had nine turnovers...just one more than a season-low for the team.
- Lady Mocs made Charleston pay for miscues...they only forced 13 turnovers, but turned those into 23 points...Cougars got just nine points on Chattanooga's nine turnovers.
HEAD COACH WES MOORE'S 500th CAREER WIN
- 500th career victory - 500-152 (.767) - 22nd season.
- 300th UTC victory - 300-96 (.758) - 13th season.
- 200th SoCon regular season victory - 200-36 (.847) - 13th season.
- 43rd coach in NCAA history to win at least 500 games...joins Bill Fennelly (Iowa State) and Kevin Borseth (Michigan) as coaches who have hit the milestone this season.
- Ninth fastest (652 games) to 500 wins in NCAA history.
- No. 3 in career wins among the active SoCon coaches, trailing UNCG's Lynn Agee (598-328) and Charleston's Nancy Wilson (531-336).
- Moore's Other Milestone Wins
Career
1 - Nov. 21, 1987 - at Emory - 57-51
100 - Feb 4., 1992 - at Fish - 73-60
200 - March 18, 1998 - vs. Arkansas Tech - 69-61
300 - Feb. 3, 2003 - at College of Charleston - 85-75
400 - Jan. 6, 2007 - at Appalachian State - 84-74
At Chattanooga
1 - Nov. 21, 1998 - vs. Samford - 72-65
100 - Feb. 3, 2003 - at College of Charleston - 85-75
200 - Jan. 6, 2007 - at Appalachian State - 84-74
In the SoCon
1 - Nov. 28, 1998 - at Davidson - 86-64
100 - Jan. 22, 2005 - at Furman - 63-56
INDIVIDUAL
Sophomore Kayla Christopher
- 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting, 3-of-5 from 3-point range and 1-for-3 from the free throw line.
- 7-of -12 (58.2%) from 3-point range last three games...43.7% on the year.
- 43.7% from behind the arc is currently No. 5 on the Lady Mocs single-season list.
- Tied for game-high with six assists.
- Double-figures in each of the last three games.
- Averaging 13.6 ppg and 6.0 apg in her last three games.
- Hit her 100th career 3-point FG in the game...now 101-237 (.426)
- 42.6% from 3-pt. range is currently second on the Lady Mocs' career list, just behind Marcheta Winton's 42.7% (103-241) from 1985-89.
Junior Whitney Hood
- Game-high 17 points on 7-of-16 shooting, 3-for-4 from the free thorw line.
- Team-high eight boards.
- Leads the SoCon with 21.0 ppg.
Junior Tenisha Townsend
- 13 points on 4-8 shooting, 3-for-4 from 3-point range and 2-of-2 from the free throw line.
- Tied a career-high with seven boards...set a new season-high.
- Tied for game-highs with six assists.
- Broke out of a shooting slump after going 3-of-28 from 3-point range in previous five games.
