CHATTANOOGA (December 6, 2025) – In a tale of two halves, the shorthanded Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball team dropped a 74-70 back-and-forth battle to Southeast Missouri State during non-conference action on Saturday afternoon inside McKenzie Arena.
 
Chattanooga (4-5) and SEMO (4-6) exchanged the lead 19 times (with 13 ties) while no lead for either team grew more than five points for the entirety of the 40 minutes. After scoring a season-high 46 first-half points (vs. DI opponent), the Mocs were held to just 24 second-half points, its fewest since 24 against UNCG (L, 54-70) on January 13, 2024.
 
Quick Records/Series
Chattanooga: 4-5 | SEMO: 4-6
Series: 5th all-time meeting in the series… two teams split the first four… SEMO now leads the series 3-2. 

Dan Earl, Head Coach
Chattanooga (4): 72-43 | Overall (11): 145-182
 
Details: Stats | Notes | Quotes
 
Game Breakdown

• SEMO opened the game with a quick 10-6 lead before back-to-back buckets from Jordan Frison and a hook shot from Makai Richards gave Chattanooga a 12-10 lead (14:10).
• Teddy Washington Jr. scored five-straight points and finished off an extra possession with a second-chance three to put the Mocs ahead 25-21 with 8:45 left in the first half.  
• Parker Robison provided a spark for the Chattanooga offense as a successful and-one finish at the rim kept the home team in front 33-31 (5:31).
• The Mocs took a 46-44 lead into the halftime break behind a blistering 70.8% (17-of-24) shooting performance which included an 80.0% (12-of-15) mark from inside the arc.
• Both teams set a physical tone in the opening parts of the second half as SEMO clawed its way to a slight 57-55 lead with 10:57 remaining.
• In a tale of two halves, the offense slowed for both sides as back-and-forth dry spells led to an eventual 66-65 Chattanooga lead with just 3:47 left. SEMO closed the game on a 9-4 scoring run which included a 4-of-5 FG and 2-of-2 FT effort to close out the 74-70 win.

 
Inside the Stats | Box Score
G Jordan Frison: 17 pts (6-7 FG; 5-7 FT); 7 reb; 3 ast; 2 stl
G Teddy Washington Jr.: 11 pts (5-13 FG); team-best +4; 26 mins
 
Team: 25-50 FG (.500); 7-17 3FG (.412); 13-17 FT (.765); 27-32 reb (-5)
 
3 Notes to Know | More

• Chattanooga scored a season-high 46 first-half points (vs. DI) this season… countered with a season low 24 second-half points… fewest second-half points since 24 against UNCG (L, 54-70) on January 13, 2024.
• Chattanooga drops consecutive home games for the first time since defeats to UNCG and Samford on February 18 and February 22, 2023… first time with consecutive home losses to non-conference opponents in a single season since EKU (L, 52-63) and Mercer (L, 53-63) on December 8 and December 16, 2012.
• Chattanooga announced today that junior F Sean Cusano (knee) will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season after suffering an injury against Tennessee State on November 30.

Quotable | More
Sophomore guard Parker Robison on getting things back on track as a team.
"I have to say it starts with practice. I mean, that's the place where you get better. You can't take off. You have to be 100 percent in everything you do. I think we've had some really, really good practices, and then we've had some ones that are not as sharp. It should never be up and down and back up like that. It has to be 100 percent the whole time, whether that's in practice or not, we have to lock in the whole time."
 
Head coach Dan Earl's opening thoughts.
"You can point to a lot of different things. We obviously made some shots in the first half and in the second half, we had some point-blank layups and easy looks but just didn't make enough. I'm a little more concerned about guys not doing what's asked. So, I must do a better job about getting the guys to do what's asked. We will get better at that. We continue to stress our offensive rebounding. We are losing the battle for shot attempts and offensive rebounds … they had eight more shots attempts than we did. If you're not shooting the ball particularly well, we can't do that to ourselves."

Up Next | Tickets
Chattanooga wraps up its five-game homestand on Tuesday night with a matchup against non-Division I member Oakwood (AL) of the NAIA ranks. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. (ET) on ESPN+ inside McKenzie Arena.

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