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CHATTANOOGA (February 15, 2025) – In front of a packed McKenzie Arena, the Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball team battled its way to a seventh-straight win after capturing a 78-71 victory over longtime rival ETSU in key Southern Conference action on Saturday night.
 
Chattanooga (19-8, 11-3 SoCon), on its longest win streak since nine to open the 2020-21 season, completed the regular season sweep of ETSU (15-12, 8-6 SoCon) for the second-straight season. The Mocs remain tied atop the SoCon standings with UNCG with four contests remaining on the regular season schedule.
 
UTC grabbed a 36-30 halftime lead after finishing the opening half with six unanswered points following consecutive threes from Trey Bonham and Honor Huff. After ETSU opened the second half with six unanswered to tie the game 36-36, Chattanooga grabbed and held the lead for the remaining 17:26 of action which featured a 6-of-6 finish from the floor to help keep its distance from the visitors.
 
The Mocs saw another balanced scoring attack as four different players reached double figures for the second-straight game. Huff led the team with 19 while Bonham (18), Bash Wieland (13) and Frank Champion (13) joined in as Champion once again nearly notched a triple-double, adding eight assists and seven rebounds in the winning effort.
 
RECORD UPDATE – Chattanooga 19-8, 11-3 SoCon ∙ ETSU 15-12, 8-6 SoCon
 
SERIES HISTORY – 103rd Meeting ∙ Chattanooga leads 56-47 all-time. 
 
FIRST HALF KEY MOMENTS
∙ Trey Bonham hit his second three of the early stages to give UTC a slight 10-9 (15:25) edge.
∙ Collin Mulholland knocked down a triple from the top of the key to keep the Mocs ahead, 15-11 (11:57).
∙ ETSU's Quimari Peterson hit a corner three to give the visiting Bucs a two-point edge, 20-18 (8:57), following a 5-0 run.
∙ With the two teams tied 30-30 (2:01), Bonham and Honor Huff ended the half with back-to-back threes to help give UTC a 36-30 lead at the break.
 
HALF: Chattanooga 36, ETSU 30 – UTC finished the first half on a 6-0 scoring run to take a 36-30 lead; nine 3FGM in the half.
 
SECOND HALF KEY MOMENTS
∙ ETSU opened the second half on a 6-0 scoring run to tie the game 36-36 (17:43) before Chattanooga scored 10 of the next 14 to jump ahead 46-40 (15:05).
∙ The Mocs used a 9-0 run spanning nearly three minutes to take a 61-49 (8:11) lead before an ETSU three and stopped the run with the hosts leading 61-52 (7:17).
∙ Bonham connected on his sixth three of the game to cap off five unanswered UTC points to extend the late edge to 11, 69-58 (4:14).
∙ Chattanooga finished the final four minutes 6-of-6 from the field to help fend off a subtle ETSU down the stretch to help walk away with its seventh-straight win.

FINAL: Chattanooga 78, ETSU 71

GAME NOTES ∙ MORE
∙ The seven-game win streak is the longest since opening the 2020-21 season on a nine-game heater… currently the sixth-longest active streak in NCAA Division I by total games… seven-straight SoCon regular season wins is longest since nine during the 2015-16 title season.

∙ Chattanooga finished the game with 22 assists on its 28 FGM… back-to-back games with 20+ assists (21 at Samford)… first time with consecutive 20+ assist games against DI (and SoCon) opponents since 2011 (23 vs. Elon, 1/29/11 & 20 vs. Ga. Southern, 2/3/11).

∙ Honor Huff finished with a team-high 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting (all from 3PT)… the five 3FGM puts him at 192 for his UTC career… now 4^th all-time.

POSTGAME QUOTES ∙ MORE
HC Dan Earl's overall thoughts after tonight's 78-71 win over ETSU.
"Yeah, credit to ETSU. They were obviously down a guy or two, and I thought they had a great game plan of taking the air of the ball and playing slow. That frustrated us a good amount and we need to work on that. I thought it was a hard-fought win against a really good team and we made enough plays late. We stayed the course. I'm proud of the guys for keeping their fight. It was a good team win, but we need to learn from that outing."
 
G Honor Huff on getting back to the three-ball tonight.
"Teams try to take the three away from us of course, that's our style at a maximum. The defense today allowed us to get some open looks from three, the way they changed their defense up allowed us to free some guys. It was just good to see us make some shots tonight."

UP NEXT – Wednesday, Feb. 19 – Chattanooga vs. Western Carolina – 7 p.m. ET – McKenzie Arena – ESPN+ – BUY TICKETS
 
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