2023-24 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 22 – at Western Carolina
January 31 – Ramsey Center – Cullowhee, N.C.
Postgame Notes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Attendance: 1,895
Game Duration: 2:01
Officials: Billy Dunlap, Michael Wallace, Anthony Eades
 
TEAM
- Chattanooga earned its fifth-straight win behind a gutsy 91-85 victory over Western Carolina on Wednesday night… UTC improves to 15-7 overall and 7-2 inside SoCon play… WCU falls to 16-6 and 5-4 in the league.

- All-time record 1,420-1,139… 873-570 in Division I era (since 1977-78)… 472-290 all-time in the SoCon.
 
- Chattanooga picked up its fifth-straight win… four of the five have come on the road… last four-game SoCon road winning streak?... January 20-February 10, 2021… ties third-longest such streak in program history.
 
- The game featured just one lead change and no ties… Western led for the first 24:20 of game time… UTC grabbed its first lead at the 15:14 mark (49-48) of the second half and led the whole way through.
 
- Chattanooga posted 30 bench points in the win while limiting the WCU reserves to just 10… UTC earned the fast-break battle 14-10… Catamounts outscored the Mocs 40-34 in the paint.
 
- The Mocs featured another blistering shooting display after finishing 59.6% (31-of-52) from the floor… 50.0% (12-of-24) from deep… 17-of-19 (89.5%) from the line… fourth-straight game shooting 50.0% or better from the field in total… first time 50% or better in four-straight since December 18, 2018-January 3, 2019.
 
- Chattanooga moves to 9-0 under Dan Earl when scoring 90 or more points in a game… 4-0 this season… 21-3 when scoring 80 or more… 17-0 when shooting 50.0% or better… 9-0 this season.
 
- Chattanooga ended the first half on an 11-3 run… made seven of its final eight field-goal attempts… trailed 43-41… third-straight game with 40+ first-half points… shot 58.6% (17-of-29) from the floor… 46.2% (6-of-13) from three.

SERIES NOTES
All-Time: 102^nd Meeting | Record: 71-31 | Home: 40-6 | Away: 24-23 | Neutral: 7-2

- Today's game marked the 87^th all-time meeting between the two schools in regular season SoCon play… UTC is 59-28 all-time in regular season meetings.
 
COACH
Dan Earl (Penn State '97), 2^nd Season
Record: 33-24 (UTC) | 106-163 (9^th)
Home: 70-54 | Away: 28-98 | Neutral: 8-11
vs. WCU: 9-9 | Home: 5-3 | Away: 3-6 | Neutral: 1-0 
 
INDIVIDUAL
- Trey Bonham led all UTC scorers with 22 points on 7-of-10 shooting… went 3-of-5 from deep… 5-of-6 from the line… grabbed seven rebounds and dished out a pair of assists… +10 mark was best among the starting five… season-high 36 minutes.
 
 - Jan Zidek continued his scoring attack with 20 points on 6-of-12 shooting in 24 minutes off the bench… went 4-of-9 from deep… perfect 4-of-4 from the line down the stretch… team-best +17.
 
- Honor Huff added 19 points on 6-of-11 shooting… knocked down three triples on five attempts… perfect 4-of-4 at the line… three boards, three steals and an assist… played all 40 minutes… first Moc to play all 40 minutes since Malachi Smith at Belmont December 15, 2021.