2021-22 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
2022 Ingles Southern Conference Championships
Game 34 – vs. Furman – March 7 – Harrah's Cherokee Center
Postgame Quotes

Lamont Paris, Head Coach
Opening statement.
"I got a lot of words normally, but wow, there's not a lot to be said. Just unbelievable. I'm a very fortunate coach, and the good part about this is that everyone believes it now because we won a championship, but if we had not, I still am such a blessed coach to be able to coach this group. Incredible game, what a finish. We tried to do what we could do to make it exciting, shaved a couple years off my life, but what an unbelievable game. This group is so brilliant, so mature, so together, that you can go out there and throw up 16 points. I get there were people that were turning it off, and jumped off the bandwagon, I'm sure of it, and I don't blame them. But they let me get on them hard at halftime, they allowed me to coach them, and they came out and played in the second half. We had an opportunity in regulation, made a couple of errors, they made a couple plays that hurt us, it was just a heck of a basketball game, and there's not a better ending for it than that."
 
On the respect the SoCon deserves.
"I know there's not enough respect for this league. Great coaches, there's no just going out and hooping, you can't do that, you're going to lose to teams that no one else knows is a good team. I was in the Big Ten for seven years. This is the most competitive in terms of guys-that-get-after-it-and-compete league that I've ever been around, or played against, or seen. You look at nonconference and Citadel goes to Pitt and wins by double figures, Samford goes to Ole Miss, someone goes to Louisville. It's never shocking to me that those games happen. One day, people that are doing their research will call a second team out of this conference."
 
On how surreal it was that David Jean-Baptiste, one of his first players at UTC, hit the game-winning shot.
"Just unbelievable. I always talk about this book that I'm gonna write when this is all said and done, and the longest chapter will be titled, 'DJB III.' Its surreal what has transpired, the good, the bad, the ugly, we've been all over the place as a team, and for it to come down to that, I literally am now committed to writing that book and telling that story."
 
What the championship means to himself and the city of Chattanooga.
"It means a lot to me. Somewhere way down the list I'll look at what it means for me and how it ranks in my personal career. This eclipses everything. The thing I get the most out of it, it makes me so excited and happy for two things: one, I'm with these guys every single day. Then, the growth that I've seen from our whole community and university, I get texts from people who've never gone to a game, our student section in our last home games have been phenomenal. When I dreamed about something after I got here, I saw what we had, and I was dreaming big. This is what I dreamed about. Not this, this net and trophy are byproducts, but getting the right kids, the right culture, getting the city into it, if you get all those things, nets can't help but happen at some point. That's what my vision was, and we got the right people on the boat in order to make it happen."
 
On Furman's effort
"They have such a good team, and it's beyond they are such a good team. They communicate well, how they interact together with the coaches, they had it together, and we didn't have it together when I first got here. You look at them and say 'we have to get to that point.' Bob (Richey) does a tremendous job with his team, they compete like crazy, they know who they are, and all the credit in the world to them. I can't say enough about them and how good they are, and how resilient they were to also put themselves back in position to win the game."
 
Silvio De Sousa, Gr.-F
On his second-half play and offensive rebounding.
"When we got to the locker room to end the half, coach always says it, but we have to compete. I asked this question in my head, but, 'Why compete when we can dominate?' And I just came out and tried to get my teammates involved. I don't think I've talked as much as I have on the defensive end to make sure everyone was engaged, involved, you know hands up. It was just in my head, 'why compete when you can dominate?'"
 
On the wisdom he has from NCAA tournament experience.
"I think it was the very first practice, I remember telling the guys in the locker room, 'You think playing ball in fun? Just make it to the NCAA tournament, you'll have a lot more fun.' I just hope they will get to enjoy it, and just have the fun I once told them about."
 
Malachi Smith, So.-G
On David Jean-Baptiste's game-winner
"Believe it or not, Dave shoots those before practice. I was literally looking at him like, 'Just shoot it, bro,' and when it went in, I didn't know if it was real or not. I just looked at him, and when he took his jersey off, I was like, 'OK!' He's a great player, and he just did what he does."
 
David Jean-Baptiste, Gr.-G
On his game-winner in OT
"It was surreal. I knew I had four seconds left, tried to put myself in the best position possible just to get the shot up, and it felt like it took forever for the ball to reach the basket, but once I saw it hit the net, I couldn't feel no more after that. It was unbelievable."