CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga women's basketball team will take on Samford Saturday afternoon at the Pete Hanna Center.
 
GAME DAY CENTER    
Chattanooga at Samford
Time: 5:30 p.m. Eastern
Site: Birmingham, Ala. | Pete Hanna Center
Follow all the action online at GoMocs.com. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+. Larry Ward will have the call on WFLI. Download the Varsity App to listen to the game on your mobile device. Live stats will be available on GoMocs.com.
 
THE LAST TIME OUT
Chattanooga took the lead in the fourth quarter at Mercer and held off the Bears to grab a 64-61 win. Addie Grace Porter scored a career-high 19 points and was joined in double figures by Raven Thompson with 14 and Yazz Wazeerud-Din with 11.
 
CHATTANOOGA vs. SAMFORD
The Mocs and Bulldogs first met in 1998 in Chattanooga as non-conference foes and battled to a 72-65 overtime win in favor of UTC. The advantage in the series is in the Mocs favor 27-11 and UTC holds a 20-9 lead in the SoCon regular season since Samford joined the SoCon in 2008.
 
THE LAST TIME
The Mocs saw its first half lead fall away in the second, dropping its SoCon home-opener 58-53 to Samford Thursday night at The McKenzie Arena. Abbey Cornelius recorded her fourth double-double of the year with a game-high 16 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for the second straight game. Also posting a game-best was Yazz Wazeerud-Din who scored nine of her 16 points in the final quarter. She was 5-of-8 from beyond the arc. Raven Thompson dropped in 13 points with five rebounds and dished out a career-best four assists. The first quarter saw the two programs put up 11 points apiece. Chattanooga shot 45.5 percent in the frame and got out front at the end of the second after shooting 7-of-14 from the field to lead 27-24 at the break. However, the third quarter saw the Mocs stumble, shooting just 28.6 percent in the period. It took a while for either team to get into a rhythm in the third with both combining for seven misses on nine chances. Samford scored the first five points to get out front 29-27 with 6:58 to play in the frame. Cornelius hit a layup to tie the game, 29-29 20 seconds later, but Samford replied on the ensuing possession to retake the lead. Almost a full minute later, Wazeerud-Din drained her second 3-pointer of the game to give UTC a 32-31 lead (5:17). The Bulldogs outscored the Mocs 12-5 the rest of the way led by Carly Heidger with six points, to lead 43-37 headed into the final 10 minutes. In the fourth, Samford increased its lead to 45-37, but the Mocs would get a 7-0 run to cut that lead to 45-44 with 4:55 remaining on a pair of free throws from Thompson. UTC tied it up 50-50 with 3:07 to play on a free throw from Addie Grace Porter and took a 53-52 lead on Wazeerud-Din's fifth 3-pointer of the game with 2:29 to play. However, that would be the final points for Chattanooga. Samford put up the last six points for the win.