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Chris Early was fouled on this trip to the basket but scored 21 points to lead the Mocs to a 75-59 win over Furman Monday.Keegan Bell called it “Black-Out Magic.”
That’s his short explanation for the 75-59 win over Furman in what the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga promoted as a “Black-Out” Monday night, with free black T-shirts and free concessions for a season-record 5,107 fans.
The Mocs warmed up in blue uniforms but returned to the locker room 10 minutes before tipoff to find black attire waiting in their lockers for the first time this season.
“I didn’t think it was going to happen,” said Bell, who had 14 points including dagger 3s in the second half of the Southern Conference game. “They did a good job of faking us out.
“When we came out wearing black unis, it gave me goosebumps.”