UTC Mocs logoThe University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team had a solid start in Thursday night’s game at Mercer, building a two-point lead after a quarter.
Things quickly went downhill after that.
The Bears outscored the Mocs 23-13 in the second period and gradually distanced themselves, pulling away for a 67-44 victory in front of a season-high crowd of 1,574 at Hawkins Arena in Macon, Ga.
The loss snaps the Mocs’ 52-game Southern Conference regular-season win streak, and they will be back on the road Saturday to play Samford at 3 p.m. EST in Birmingham, Ala.
“We just didn’t compete at the level we needed to tonight,” UTC coach Jim Foster said on the postgame radio broadcast. “That’s for us to figure out by Saturday.”