2024-25 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 7 – Tennessee State – November 25, 2024
McKenzie Arena – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Postgame Notes & Quotes
 
GENERAL NOTES
Game Duration: 2:08
Attendance: 3,022
Officials: Michael Husted, Patrick Haywood, Sidney Cohen
 
TEAM NOTES
- Chattanooga earned its fourth-straight win following an 85-78 victory over in-state foe Tennessee State inside McKenzie Arena… opening day of the 2024 Coke Classic MTE… UTC improved to 4-3 on the season after the win… TSU moves to 3-4.
 
- All-time program record 1,430-1,147… 881-577 in Division I era (since 1977-78).
 
- Chattanooga out-scored Tennessee State 54-41 in the second half after trailing 37-31 at the break… shot just 17.6% (3-of-17) from deep in the first half of action… countered with a 50.0% (13-of-26) total from the floor over the final 20 minutes.
 
- UTC has led only once this season at halftime (32-30 vs. Johnson, 11/21)… the Mocs led for just 14:22 in total during today's win… ultimately erased an 11-point deficit that occurred midway through the first.
 
- Largest deficit to overcome at home since a 13-point disadvantage against Gardner-Webb last season (12/19/23)… that game ended with a Trey Bonham halfcourt buzzer beater.
 
- Chattanooga earned 36 trips to the free-throw line during the win… 29 attempts in the second half (24-of-29, 82.8%)… finished 28-of-36 (77.8%) for the game… the 28 made FT's is the most against a non-conference opponent since 30 against Alabama State on 11/20/2016.
 
- UTC doubled up TSU in points stemming from turnovers 20-10… forced 13 turnovers while committing just nine… back-to-back games with nine or less turnovers.
 
- Streak of 5+ 3PT FGs extends to 75-straight games… began at 2022-23 season opener… every game under Dan Earl… second-longest active streak (Oral Roberts, 130)… 17th longest streak all-time in DI.
 
PLAYER NOTES
- Trey Bonham hit 1,200 career points with his 19^th of the night… finished with season and game-high 28 … career tally includes stops at VMI (601), Florida (167) and Chattanooga (441)… added seven rebounds and four assists.
 
- Honor Huff scored a season-high 19 points… finished the game 10-of-11 at the FT line… closing in on 1,000 career points… currently sitting at 973.
 
- Collin Mulholland reached double figures with a career-high 10… went 3-of-6 FG… 4-of-5 FT… added two rebounds… finished team-best +6.

SERIES HISTORY

All-Time	Record	Pct.
Overall (36th)	23-13	.639
at Chattanooga	16-5	.762
at Tennessee State	5-8	.385
Neutral	2-0	1.000

 
COACHING RECORDS/NOTES

Dan Earl (PSU '97)	Record	Pct.
Overall (10th)	116-171	.395
at UTC (3rd)	43-32	.563
vs. Tennessee State	1-0	1.000

POSTGAME QUOTES
Dan Earl, Head Coach
Overall thoughts on the 85-78 win over TSU.
"You can see we're still very much a work in progress, but when it counted, I thought we played with more toughness than we have in some other games. Certainly, this guy to my left, Trey, had an absolutely great game."
 
On the team's current four game win streak.
"I'm proud that we've gotten a couple wins and we have not played to our ability or our potential. So if you can get wins without playing to your potential, there's got to be something good there, right?"
 
On his message to the team during halftime.
"We got on them and was wanting more competing and being more physical. I didn't think that was necessarily the problem today, so we talked more strategy and just being absent minded or correcting our mistakes like there was some uncharacteristic just silliness out there."
 
Turning the page to Wednesday against Bryant.
"We have to move the ball on offense, but we have to get better defensively and grab 50/50 balls and rebounding. So we'll have another challenge against Bryant, and you got to flip the page pretty quickly."
 
Trey Bonham, Sr.-G
When asked about his dominant performance.
"Yeah, the season kind of started off a little slow for me. So having a game where I got in that zone, felt good. Finally, I knew I've been putting in work, so I knew it was going to come eventually. But yeah, it just felt good to get back in that zone."
 
On the game plan against TSU tonight.
"We knew they try to get downhill, they're going to shoot the ball, and all five of them are crashing. That was really the number one key going into it. We knew we had to box out, and we had to keep the ball in front of us, and if we did that, we'll win the game."