2024-25 Chattanooga Mocs Men's Basketball
Game 34 – Middle Tenn. – March 18, 2025
National Invitation Tournament – First Round
Murphy Center – Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Postgame Notes
 
GENERAL GAME INFO
Game Duration: 2:44
Attendance: 3,505
Officials: James Hicks, Blake Harris, Michael Swodoba
 
TEAM/SERIES RECORDS
Chattanooga: 25-9
Middle Tennessee: 22-12
 
COACH RECORDS
Chattanooga: Dan Earl (Penn State '97)
Overall (10th): 137-177
at UTC (3rd): 64-38
 
SERIES HISTORY
All-Time Meetings: 69
Chattanooga leads the all-time series 37-32 (H: 23-9; A: 12-23; N: 0-2).
 
HISTORIC RECORDS
All-Time Program Record: 1,449-1,153 (.554)
Division I Era (since '77-78): 904-584 (.605)
 
NIT RECORDS
NIT Appearance: 5th (first since four-straight from 1984-87)
NIT Record: 4-4 (.500)
Best NIT Finish: 1985 NIT Quarterfinals
 
TEAM & GAME NOTES
∙ Chattanooga improved to 25-9 after a 109-103 3OT victory over Middle Tennessee in the 2025 NIT First Round… first postseason (NCAAT/NIT) victory since 1997's Sweet 16 run… first NIT win since 1985.
 
∙ Chattanooga's 25 wins are the fourth most in a single season for the program… just the seventh season with 25+ wins… first time since 27 wins during the 2021-22 campaign.
 
∙ Chattanooga is riding a nine-game road winning streak… longest in program history… 11 road wins this year is second-most in school history (12; 2021-22)… 46-29 in true road games since 2020… most wins in NCAA DI over that span.
 
∙ Chattanooga moves to an even 4-4 in the NIT event all-time… most NIT victories among all current and former Southern Conference members… second in appearances (Davidson, 6, 3-6).
 
∙ Chattanooga is now 3-0 all-time in 3OT games… last was a 71-69 3OT win at Georgia Southern on 1/17/1979… other was a 61-47 barnburner over Oglethorpe on 1/16/1963.
 
∙ Chattanooga has now won seven-straight games over Conference USA opponents… nine of the last 11.
 
PLAYER NOTES
∙ Bash Wieland poured in a career-high 31 points on 10-of-19 shooting… scored 22 in the first half… added seven rebounds… career-high 48 minutes on the floor.
 
∙ Collin Mulholland broke out with a career-high 21 points on 6-of-10 shooting including a 3-of-7 mark from three… went 6-of-6 from the FT line… team-best +16 in 28 minutes.
 
∙ Trey Bonham poured in 27 points and grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds… tied a season high with six assists… surpassed 500 career rebounds… 19 points came in the second half.
 
∙ Honor Huff played all 55 minutes during the 3OT victory… scored just six points but hit the eventual dagger with his second triple of the day to put UTC ahead 108-103 with 15 seconds to play.
 
QUOTES
Dan Earl's opening statement after 109-103 3OT win.
"Okay. Uh, wow, that was a great college basketball game, huh? It was really fun to see a hard fought game by both teams, and credit to Middle. Coach McDevitt does a great job. Those guys played extremely hard and were tough to follow. I thought we fought tremendously hard. Our defense was uh I don't know, atrocious in the first half. But we kind of made some adjustments and just played harder. It was better the last four minutes of the first half and then end of the second half. Overall, extremely proud of these guys and that effort."
 
Collin Mulholland on creating his March moment.
"I think just the way we move the ball makes it really hard for teams to notice. It can make them look over at times which leads to more openings like the couple threes you just mentioned. We executed a lot of backdoor cuts that allowed us to really free up the threes which we can make at a very high rate, so it makes us very dangerous just by how many different ways we can free up the offense."