Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Notes
Chattanooga at Samford
Pete Hanna Center – Birmingham, Ala.
Saturday – Jan. 26, 2019
 
TEAM
- Chattanooga beat Samford 73-63 Saturday at the Pete Hanna Center … Mocs improve to 9-11 overall and 4-1 in SoCon play … Samford is 7-13 overall and 2-3 against the league.
 
- UTC is now 23-7 against Samford and 18-6 in SoCon competition … Mocs have won last seven games.
 
- Mocs shot 81.8 (9-11) in the fourth quarter … held Samford to 2-of-13 (15.4%) in the final frame.
 
- Chattanooga outscored the Bulldogs 24-7 in the fourth quarter.
 
- Abbey Cornelius bookended a 12-1 run in the fourth quarter and scored eight points to give UTC its first lead since the 4:52 mark of the first quarter (led 8-7).
 
- UTC shot 55.8 percent (29-52) for its best shooting percentage of the season … Mocs were 8-of-16 (50%) from the 3-point line, matching best percentage from long range this season.
 
- 29 field goals is second most made this season … 17 assists matches second-most in a game this season
 
- Six turnovers matches the fewest this season by the Mocs … UTC had six at Mercer.
 
- Samford was 13-of-14 (.929) from the free throw line for the best percentage by a UTC opponent this year.
 
- Both teams scored 22 points in the paint … UTC had 13 points off 12 Samford turnovers … Samford scored eight on the Mocs' six miscues … Samford's bench outscored UTC's 25-23.
 
- Samford out rebounded the Mocs' 26-24 … UTC had eight points off four offensive rebounds while Samford scored five points on seven offensive boards.
 
- The Bulldogs shot better than 50 percent in each of the first three quarters and was 15.4 percent in the fourth
 
- The Mocs shot 30.8 percent (4-13) in the first quarter and topped 50 percent in the remaining quarters including a 9-of-11 (81.8%) effort in the fourth.

- Bouldin, Cornelius and Burns combined to shoot 20-of-22 for the game and 6-of-7 from 3-point line ... accounted for 47 UTC points.
 
INDIVIDUAL
- Lakelyn Bouldin, Jr., G
19 points, 2 assists, 40 minutes
FG: 8-of-9; 3FG: 3-of-3
158 career 3-pointers. Needs one more 3-pointer to move to seventh all-time at UTC (tie with Chelsey Shumpert).
Second time to play all 40 minutes this season
 
- Abbey Cornelius, Fr., F
14 points, 5 rebounds, 4 blocked shots, 23 minutes
FG: 7-of-7; second most shots made without a miss for Chattanooga all-time. Second time this season she has been perfect in a game. She was 5-of-5 (10^th all-time for the Mocs) against Furman, 1/19/19).
Career-high for points
Four blocked shots matches her career-high
 
- Brooke Burns, So., G
14 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists
FG: 5-of-6; 3FG: 1-2; FT: 3-4
 
- Bria Dial, So., F
14 points, 3 rebounds
FG: 5-12; 3FG: 3-5.
Matched career-high points