The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Wofford played two very different games during the regular season, with UTC’s Lady Mocs winning both.
They will meet for a third time this morning in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference women’s basketball tournament at McKenzie Arena.
In the first game, on Jan. 2 in McKenzie, current No. 11 seed Wofford (8-21) led by 18 points in the first half and was up by 14 with 15:54 left in the game. Third-seeded UTC (16-13) rallied, getting a career-high 40 points from Whitney Hood, and won 93-88.
The second meeting, on Feb. 5 at Wofford, wasn’t so close. UTC dominated the second half and won 72-45.
“They’re a very competitive team and we’ve got to be ready to play,” Hood said Friday. “We’ve gotten better defensively the last 10 games, and when we played them at their place we played really good defense.”