2024-25 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 27 – ETSU – February 15, 2025
McKenzie Arena – Chattanooga, Tenn.
Postgame Notes & Quotes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Game Duration: 1:48
Attendance: 4,406
Officials: Michael Husted, Dan Powers, Justin McKie
 
TEAM RECORDS
Chattanooga: 19-8, 11-3 SoCon
ETSU: 15-12, 8-6 SoCon
 
SERIES HISTORY
103rd All-Time Meeting
Chattanooga leads 56-47; H: 29-13; A: 19-25; N: 3-0.
Chattanooga leads 42-26 in SoCon regular season games.
 
COACHES RECORDS
Chattanooga: Dan Earl (Penn State '97)
Overall (10): 131-176, 64-108 SoCon
at UTC (3): 58-37, 30-20 SoCon
 
ETSU: Brooks Savage (Tennessee '08)
Overall (3): 34-28
at ETSU (3): Same
 
HISTORIC RECORDS
All-Time Program Record: 1,444-1,152 (.554)
Division I Era (since '77-78): 898-583 (.605)
All-Time SoCon Record: 484-295 (.617)
McKenzie Arena Record: 496-152 (.764)
 
TEAM & GAME NOTES

• Chattanooga earned its seventh-straight victory after posting a 78-71 victory over rival ETSU… Mocs improved to 19-8, 11-3 SoCon after the win… ETSU dropped to 15-12, 8-6 after the defeat.
• 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 remains tied atop the SoCon standings with UNCG at 11-3 in league play after the win… four games left in regular season action.
• Chattanooga finished the game a strong 53.8% (28-of-52) from the floor… knocked down 15 3FGM at a 51.7% clip (15-of-29)… most 3FGM since 16 during January 15's OT win over Wofford.
• 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).

 
PLAYER NOTES

• Frank Champion nearly notched a triple-double for the second-straight game… posted 13 points, eight assists and seven rebounds… finished 6-of-9 from the floor.
• 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
Dan Earl, Head Coach
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."
 
On tonight's win improving confidence.
"It's important. We've gained confidence. I think we've gotten better with each game, and this one we took a little dip down for certain. You want to be playing your best basketball heading into Asheville, but I think these guys know if we play the right way offensively and we're locked in defensively, we can become much better. This will help the confidence level but every game in the Southern Conference is a dog fight."
 
Trey Bonham, G-Sr.
On tonight's strong shooting performance.
"I have been in the gym a lot this week. I told Honor [Huff] before the game that it felt good tonight that it was going in. I got up a lot of shots and it's really just confidence, I know I can make shots, so it's coming in to the game having confidence in my ability."
 
Honor Huff, G-Jr.
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."