The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team suffered through a dreadful second quarter, and the Mocs’ fourth-quarter rally fell short in a 61-53 Southern Conference loss to Western Carolina on Saturday afternoon at McKenzie Arena.
“When you’re not shooting the ball well, you can’t have blown coverages,” UTC coach Katie Burrows said. “I feel like we’ve got a bunch of folks who were trying to take it on their shoulders and trying to turn things around themselves. But we’ve got to stay the course and trust the process and continue to play together. We did not share the ball well today.”
The loss was the Mocs’ first to Western Carolina since Feb. 22, 2010, snapping a 21-game UTC winning streak, and it was the Catamounts’ first victory at McKenzie since Feb. 21, 2009.
The Mocs, coming off back-to-back wins for the first time this season, lost the momentum in the league standings they had generated with the victories at East Tennessee State and against UNC Greensboro.
UTC (6-17, 5-4) was led in scoring Saturday by Bria Dial with 20 points, and Eboni Williams added 12 points and seven rebounds.