2025-26 Chattanooga Basketball Game Notes
Game 12 at Bellarmine | December 17, 2025
Knights Hall | Louisville, Ky.
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Game Duration: 2:00
Officials: James Curran, Luke Schumer, Kindric Link
Attendance: 1,192
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Quick Records/Series
Chattanooga: 5-7 | Bellarmine: 5-6
Series: Fourth all-time meeting in the series… Chattanooga now leads the series 3-1.
Dan Earl, Head Coach
Chattanooga (4): 73-45 | Overall (11): 146-184
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Historic Records
All-Time Program Record: 1458-1,160 (.554)
Division I Era (since 1977-78): 913-591 (.606)
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Team Notables
- Chattanooga dropped its second-straight game following a 79-64 defeat on the road at Bellarmine on Wednesday… UTC is now 5-7 on the season… BU improves to 5-6 after the win… first victory for the Knights in the all-time series (fourth meeting).
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- Chattanooga was held scoreless for more than five minutes after the two teams were tied at 53-53 with 9:04 left… UTC was outscored 13-0 during the cold spell… went 0-of-5 from the floor with three turnovers during the stretch.
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- Chattanooga shot a season low 32.8% (21-64) from the field… also a season low 21.7% (10-46) from 3PT… finished the second half shooting just 25.0% (8-32) overall and 19.0% (4-21) from deep… allowed Bellarmine to shoot 71.4% (15-21) over the final 20 minutes.
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- Chattanooga finished with a season low nine assists during the defeat… fewest assists in a game since eight against Tennessee State on November 25, 2024… fewest in a non-conference road game since seven at Murray State on December 18, 2021.
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- Chattanooga turned the ball over just seven times while forcing 12 Bellarmine turnovers… however… Knights capitalized on all seven UTC turnovers and earned a 15-7 edge in points off miscues.
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- Chattanooga was held to a season low 18 points in the paint… Bellarmine finished with 30 in the paint while earning a 41-33 rebounding edge… Knights also won the fast-break battle 15-3 and points off the bench 19-9.
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- Chattanooga held a nine-point lead at the break 36-27… third time holding a DI opponent to less than 30 points in the opening half…
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Player Notables
- G Brennan Watkins finished with 20 points on 6-12 FG (all 3FGA)… career-high six 3FGM… added five rebounds and three steals in a season-high 38 minutes.
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- G Jordan Frison finished with 20 points on 8-17 FG… fourth-straight game with 17 or more… three-straight 20-point efforts… added four assists to no turnovers… 77 points and 18 assists over the past four games.
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- Chattanooga saw the return of three key players who were previously inactive… F Collin Mulholland, F Latif Diouf and G Parker Robison all returned tonight… first action for Mulholland since Nov. 22 against North Alabama… first for Diouf since at UNLV on Nov. 8.
