UTC women’s head basketball coach Jim Foster directs players during the Lady Mocs’ basketball practice and their Mocs Club Basketball Open House event Oct. 29, 2014, in Chattanooga.After starting with two games against teams from the Big East as well as a close loss to a team from the much-improved American Athletic Conference, it would seem that the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team started the 2014-15 season with some tough tests.
The Mocs haven’t seen anything yet.
UTC coach Jim Foster’s 2-1 team wraps up its first road trip of the season today with a 5 p.m. game against No. 3 Notre Dame. After that, the Mocs return home to play Austin Peay on Monday before taking on No. 4 Tennessee on Wednesday night at McKenzie Arena.
Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw is well aware of UTC’s reputation as a dangerous mid-major program over the past 10 years or more.
“It’s a very well respected program,” she said in a phone interview Thursday. “A perennial NCAA tournament team, and nobody wants to play a team like that in the tournament. (Former UTC coach) Wes (Moore) really did a great job while he was there, and Jim is continuing that tradition.