BOX SCORE ∙ NOTES/QUOTES
 
LEXINGTON, VA. (March 1, 2025) – The Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball team concluded its successful regular season campaign with its 11^th-straight victory after routing VMI, 91-70, in the Southern Conference finale on Saturday afternoon inside Cameron Hall in Lexington, Va.
 
The 11-game overall win streak for Chattanooga (23-8, 15-3 SoCon) ties the longest since winning 11 during the 1996-97 Sweet 16 season while the eight-straight SoCon road wins continues to extend its single season program record. UTC captured 15 SoCon wins during the regular season for the first time since 2015-16 and is second most in program history.
 
UTC knocked down 17 threes in today's win over VMI (13-18, 7-11 SoCon) after previously converting on a program record (DI opponent) 19 threes in the first meeting between the two teams back on January 12. Chattanooga dished out 20 assists on its 32 FGM (32-53, 60.4%) to mark its fifth game over the last six finishing with 20 or more helpers, a never-before-seen stretch for the program.
 
Honor Huff led the guests in scoring with 29 points on 9-of-14 shooting which included a 7-of-11 performance from three, moving the sharpshooter into third all-time in UTC program history with 210 threes made in a Mocs uniform. Garrison Keeslar followed with 14 points on the help of a career-high four threes while adding in four assists, three boards, two steals and a block.
 
The No. 1 seeded Mocs now head to Asheville, N.C., for the SoCon Tournament next week and will face the winner of the No. 8 and No. 9 seed on Saturday in the quarterfinal round at 12 p.m. ET on ESPN+. The 8/9 matchup will feature Mercer and Western Carolina with exact seeding numbers to be finalized on Saturday evening.

RECORD UPDATE – Chattanooga 23-8, 15-3 SoCon (1st) ∙ VMI 13-18, 7-11 SoCon (7th)
 
SERIES HISTORY – 70th Meeting ∙ Chattanooga leads the all-time series 54-16. 
 
FIRST HALF KEY MOMENTS
∙ Chattanooga jumped out to a quick 9-0 (16:32) lead after a 3-of-3 start from three including two from Honor Huff.
∙ VMI used a 12-3 run over the next four minutes to tie the game 12-12 (12:29) before UTC jumped ahead 16-12 (10:23).
∙ Garrison Keeslar knocked down a three to extend the lead to six, 23-17 (7:21), before Collin Mulholland joined in on the deep threat to put UTC ahead 30-20 (4:55).
∙ Chattanooga scored 11 of the half's final 15 points to grab help build a double-digit advantage at the break, 44-32.
 
HALF: Chattanooga 44, VMI 32 – UTC finished the half shooting 15-27 FG (55.6%) & 7-11 (63.6%); turned nine VMI turnovers into 14 points.
 
SECOND HALF KEY MOMENTS
∙ Huff knocked down his fourth three of the game to help grow the lead in the early stages of the second half, 51-35 (18:23).
∙ Trey Bonham capped off five quick unanswered UTC points with an open three to push the edge to 18, 56-38 (15:31).
∙ Three open triples in a span of just 43 seconds allowed the Mocs to balloon its lead to 26, 67-41 (13:45).
∙ VMI quickly responded with a 13-0 scoring run to cut the deficit to 17, 67-50 (11:57), with just under 12 minutes remaining.
∙ Chattanooga caught fire from deep yet again and put together a lengthy scoring stretch and began to pull away, 86-63 (2:56), before eventually closing out the 91-70 decision.

FINAL: Chattanooga 91, VMI 70

GAME NOTES ∙ MORE
∙ Chattanooga's 11-game winning streak is the longest for the program since winning 11-straight during the 1996-97 Sweet 16 campaign… third-longest win streak in program history by total wins.
 
∙ Chattanooga ended the regular season with eight-straight SoCon road victories to extend its single season program record in that category… UTC improved to 45-29 in true road games since 2020… most in NCAA DI over that span.
 
∙ Honor Huff scored a team-high 29 points on 9-14 FG… 7-11 3FG… second-highest scoring total of the season (31, vs. VMI)… moved into third all-time at UTC with 210 career 3FGM in a Mocs uniform… combined 18-26 FG (16-21 3FG) in two games against his former VMI team this season… 60 combined points.

POSTGAME QUOTES ∙ MORE
Dan Earl, Head Coach
Opening thoughts after 91-70 win at VMI in regular season finale.
"It is nice to continue the winning. It was a hard-fought game and one with a bit of emotion with Trey and Honor coming back, the core was on them quite a bit. I thought Honor played well and got free for some shots that knocked down and that's what he does. I think we got a little too casual in the second half, we had some turnovers and got a little too cute with our passing. We have some things to work on defensively, they are hard to cover. It wasn't our best performance, but we'll take a road win over a well-coached VMI team. I'm proud of the guys."
 
Honor Huff, G-Jr.
On winning the regular season and moving forward.
"Obviously you want to win the tournament and go to the national tournament, but it's very impressive to win the regular season because I think it shows the dominance throughout the entire season. A team can get hot and win three games, but to do it over the course of an entire regular season, I just think that's really impressive. We want to win the tournament, obviously, we're just not trying to undermine this accomplishment."

UP NEXT – Sat., March 8 – SoCon Tournament Quarters – Mercer OR Western Carolina – 12 p.m. – ESPN+ – Asheville, N.C.
 
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