2024-25 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 31 – VMI – March 1, 2025
Cameron Hall – Lexington, Va.
Postgame Notes & Quotes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Game Duration: 2:02
Attendance: 2,357
Officials: Michael Terry, Kyle Luckie, Chase Vaden
 
TEAM/SERIES RECORDS
Chattanooga: 23-8, 15-3 SoCon
VMI: 13-18, 7-11 SoCon
 
All-Time Meetings: 70th
Chattanooga leads the all-time series 54-16; H: 26-5; A: 23-9; N: 5-2.
Chattanooga leads 48-14 in SoCon regular season games.
 
COACHES RECORDS
Chattanooga: Dan Earl (Penn State '97)
Overall (10th): 135-176, 67-108 SoCon
at UTC (3rd): 62-37, 34-20 SoCon
 
VMI: Andrew Wilson (Florida St. '06)
Overall (3rd): 24-71
at VMI (3rd): Same
 
HISTORIC RECORDS
All-Time Program Record: 1,447-1,152 (.554)
Division I Era (since '77-78): 902-583 (.605)
All-Time SoCon Record: 488-295 (.617)
 
TEAM & GAME NOTES
∙ Chattanooga won its 11^th-straight game and finished the regular season 23-8 overall and 15-3 in SoCon play following a 91-70 rout at VMI… VMI fell to 13-18 overall and ended SoCon action 7-11.
 
∙ 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.
 
∙ Chattanooga's 15 SoCon wins this season is the most since going 15-3 during the 2015-16 championship season… just the second time winning 15 in a season since the start of the 1993-94 season… 16-2 in 1992-93 is the program's best.
 
∙ Chattanooga assisted 20 times on its 32 FGM… fifth time in last six games with 20 or more assists… first time in program history with 20 or more five times over a six-game stretch.
 
PLAYER NOTES
∙ 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.
 
∙ Trey Bonham made his 100^th career start across three stops at VMI (36), Florida (13) and UTC (51)… posted eight points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals… team best +35 in 27 minutes.
 
∙ Garrison Keeslar finished with 14 points on 4-5 FG (4-4 3FG)… career-high in threes made with four… added four assists, three rebounds and two steals.
 
POSTGAME QUOTES
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 returning to VMI for the season finale.
"We've been talking about it all week, I still have some of my best friends here. Coming back with the fans having the pictures of me, it's just an awesome and wholesome experience. We're finishing out the season where I started my career and it being my last season with Trey, there's just a lot that went into it and I'm glad how it turned out."
 
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."