2024-25 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 21 – ETSU – January 25, 2025
Freedom Hall – Johnson City, Tenn.
Postgame Notes & Quotes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Game Duration: 2:14
Attendance: 5,015
Officials: Evan Berg, Barry Mathis, Nicholaus Heater
 
TEAM RECORDS
Chattanooga: 13-8, 5-3 SoCon
ETSU: 12-9, 5-3 SoCon
 
SERIES HISTORY (ALL-TIME)
Meetings: 102 ∙ Record: UTC, 55-47
at UTC: 28-13 ∙ at ETSU: 20-25 ∙ Neutral: 7-9
 
HISTORIC NOTES
All-Time Program Record: 1,438-1,152 (.554)
Division I Era (since 77-78): 892-583 (.605)
All-Time SoCon Record: 478-295 (.617)
 
COACH RECORDS
UTC: Dan Earl ∙ UTC (3): 52-37 ∙ Overall (10): 125-176 ∙ vs. ETSU: 4-14
ETSU: Brooks Savage ∙ ETSU (2): 31-25 ∙ Overall (2): Same
 
GAME/TEAM NOTES
∙ Chattanooga earned a 71-63 victory over rival ETSU on Saturday inside Freedom Hall in Johnson City… UTC improved to 13-8 overall and 5-3 inside SoCon play… ETSU drops to 12-9 overall and a similar 5-3 in league action.
 
∙ Chattanooga has now won five-straight games at ETSU inside Freedom hall… eight of the last 11 overall games against the Bucs… 20th all-time win in Johnson City… 55-47 in the all-time series.
 
∙ The Mocs led for 20:25 of the contest while ETSU held the lead for 18:11… trailed by 12 (22-10, 8:23) in the first half… claimed a 28-27 lead at the half and kept the lead for the remainder of the contest.
 
∙ Chattanooga struggled from behind the arc for the second-straight game after finishing 3-of-13 (23.1%)… lowest amount of 3FGM (3) in a win and game since a 64-58 win at Furman back on February 12, 2022.
 
∙ UTC was extremely efficient in the second half from the floor after going 15-of-26 (57.7%)… held ETSU to a 32.8% (21-of-64) mark for the game including a 28.6% (10-of-35) tally in the first half.
 
PLAYER GAME/CAREER NOTES
Trey Bonham, G-Sr.
∙ Finished with a game-high 22 points on 8-of-16 shooting in total… 6-of-6 FT… added four rebounds.
∙ Surpassed 1,400 points in his career… entered with 1,386 and now sits at 1,408… surpassed 3,000 minutes in his career.
 
Honor Huff, G-Jr.
∙ Finished with seven points, two assists, a steal and a block… went 2-of-7 FG, 1-of-4 3PT.
∙ His lone 3FGM marked his 169th as a Moc… now 7th all-time in UTC program history.
 
POSTGAME QUOTES
Dan Earl, Head Coach
Overall thoughts after tough 71-63 win at ETSU.
"I thought he [Bonham] was very good in the second half, took the game on, took care of the ball, got downhill a lot and made good decisions. He's not afraid. He got into the teeth of defense down low and made some passes, but was able to finish around the basket. We're finding different ways to win and I thought we did a good job of getting to the free-throw line today."
 
On first half effort closing strong.
"We got off to a slowish start again today, that wasn't the plan, but they had one possession with like five offensive rebounds that kind of tilted some things in that regard. We subbed in guys immediately including Parker Robison, who just plays hard and is tough. We wanted to get a spark into the guys. We didn't panic in the first half and stuck with it. It was great going into the half up one."
 
On rebounding effort.
"I thought without that one possession, we did an admiral job on the boards. They had 15 more shot attempts than us so we had to be very efficient and we were around the rim. I thought we played with some poise against the press and did a fairly good job against the pressure they gave us."
 
Trey Bonham, G-Sr.
On rivalry game against ETSU.
"We knew it was going to be scrappy coming in to this game, we even got into some fun back-and-forths before the game even started. We knew it was going to be a tough and physical game, and I thought we matched that energy well."
 
On taking over in the second half.
"It was going to be a tough game, we knew that, and I feel like I've been built for these types of moments. I wanted the ball in my hand as much as possible to make plays and make plays for my teammates to come away with a win."
 
On weathering the first half.
"We felt like we played horrible 90% of that first half, like horrible. Then we get to the locker room and didn't even realize we were up. We just came together as a team and played like we know how and things started to look a lot better."