Last season against Stanford, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team went over 11 minutes without a basket, but its defense and free-throw shooting were enough for the Mocs’ second win over a top-10 team, 54-46.
Monday night, an already poor shooting night got worse in the second quarter against the Cardinal, and the Mocs never stood a chance. They shot only 21 percent in losing 73-30 at 11th-ranked Stanford in front of 3,410 at Maples Pavilion.
The game didn’t begin until 10 p.m. EST, but it became one-sided pretty quickly. The Cardinal, still remembering that 2014 loss, held a double-digit lead 5:19 into the game, and the lead never fell below 10 the rest of the game.
UTC (8-5) went through a span of 6:43 in the second quarter without scoring, which turned a 29-15 Stanford lead into a 38-18 advantage by the time Sydney Vanlandingham hit a 3-pointer with 12 seconds to play in the quarter.
Already trailing 40-18 at the break, the Mocs shot only 4-for-27 in the second half.