Lakelyn Bouldin started hot, then made some big plays down the stretch to lead the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team to an 89-82 Southern Conference win over Wofford on Thursday night.
For UTC (7-10, 2-0), the high-scoring night at McKenzie Arena was highlighted by Bouldin finishing with 26 points on 11-of-23 shooting and grabbing 12 rebounds as the former Van Buren County standout posted her first double-double as a college player. With 12 points in the first quarter, the junior guard surpassed the 900-point mark for her Mocs career and now has scored 915 points at UTC.
“Honestly, I don’t even care about that,” Bouldin said. “As long as we’re winning and playing good ball, that’s all I care about.”
Wofford (10-8, 2-1) led 7-2 less than three minutes into the game, but Bouldin scored 12 of the Mocs’ next 18 points to put them up for good while also grabbing three rebounds and getting one of her five assists for the night in the same stretch.
“The first couple or three minutes of the game, we weren’t going to the boards and I got very frustrated,” Mocs coach Katie Burrows said. “I challenged the team to go to the offensive boards, and you see what (Bouldin) did. She went out and got four (offensive rebounds for the game).”