2023-24 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 23 – Samford
February 3 – McKenzie Arena – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Postgame Notes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Attendance: 4,000
Game Duration: 1:52
Officials: Joshua White, Connor Penn, Matt Jarman
 
TEAM
- Chattanooga saw its five-game win streak snapped during a 78-56 loss to league-leading Samford in front of a capacity crowd of 4,000 (construction limit) on Saturday… UTC falls to 15-8 overall and 7-3 in SoCon play… Samford improves to 20-3 and 9-1 in the league.

- All-time record 1,420-1,140… 873-571 in Division I era (since 1977-78)… 472-291 all-time in the SoCon.
 
- 485-148 all-time inside McKenzie Arena… 11-4 last 15 home games dating back to last season… 9-3 in McKenzie Arena this season.
 
- Samford went wire-to-wire during the win and led for 39:15 of the total 40 minutes… Bulldogs led by as much as 22 in the first half… UTC's longest run of the game was 12-0 early in the second half that cut the deficit to eight.
 
- Chattanooga scored just five bench points during the loss after scoring a combined 102 bench points over its last four games (25.5 ppg)… Samford totaled 28 points from the reserves.
 
- The Mocs suffered from a -17-rebounding margin (41-24) in the loss… out-rebounded 11-6 on the offensive glass… the -17 margin is second-highest this season (-23 at Auburn, 12/30)… largest rebounding deficit to a SoCon opponent at home since -19 (43-24) against Western Carolina on January 4, 2018.
 
- Chattanooga finished the game shooting just 35.2% (19-of-54) from the field… 23.1% (6-of-26) from three… first loss this season when attempting 20-29 3PT FG's… entered 10-0 in such games… 1-4 this season shooting less than 40.0% from the floor… 2-13 under 40.0% since start of 2022-23 season.
 
- Chattanooga trailed 43-23 at the end of the first half… 23 points ties season-low for first-half points (23 at Milwaukee, 12/22)… second-largest halftime deficit this season (22 at Auburn, 12/30)… team shot just 28.6% (6-of-21) from the floor… 11.1% (1-of-9) from deep.

SERIES NOTES
All-Time: 112^th Meeting | Record: 68-44 | Home: 42-13 | Away: 23-30 | Neutral: 3-0

- Today's game marked the 31^st all-time meeting between the two schools in regular season SoCon play… UTC is 20-11 all-time in those meetings.
 
COACH
Dan Earl (Penn State '97), 2^nd Season
Record: 33-25 (UTC) | 106-164 (9^th)
Home: 70-55 | Away: 28-98 | Neutral: 8-11
vs. Samford: 5-17 | Home: 3-6 | Away: 0-9 | Neutral: 2-2 
 
INDIVIDUAL
- Trey Bonham hit the 1,000 career-point milestone with his fourth point of the game… arrived at UTC carrying 768 career points… 601 at VMI… 167 at Florida… finished with 13 points, five rebounds and four assists… 97^th career game played.
 
- Honor Huff led the UTC scoring attacked with a team-high 16 points… added three rebounds, two assists and two steals… finished 5-of-14 from the floor including 3-of-11 from deep.
 
- Myles Che ended with 15 points on an efficient 5-of-8 day from the floor… 1-of-1 from deep… 4-of-6 from the line… added four rebounds and an assist… first double-digit scoring effort since scoring 16 at Alabama A&M on December 16.