UTC’s all-conference senior star, Zaccheus Mason, is extending his college career as the Mocs play tonight at former and future Southern Conference rival East Tennessee State.It’s not exactly the postseason tournament that the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team dreamed of or hoped for — Wofford has that spot after winning the Southern Conference tournament — but the Mocs’ season continues tonight anyway.
UTC (18-14) will play at former and future league rival East Tennessee State tonight at 7 in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
“It’s a great way to launch ETSU rejoining the SoCon,” league commissioner John Iamarino said. “We’re very pleased that we’ll go into next season that half of our 10 teams are going to have played in the postseason.”
Iamarino will be traveling to follow Wofford, which earned the automatic NCAA tournament bid and will face second-seeded Michigan on Thursday.
Mercer, which joins the league next season, earned a No. 14 seed in the “Big Dance” and will face third-seeded Duke with a SoCon official in attendance pulling double duty.