Staff Photo by Tim Barber/Chattanooga Times Free Press
UTC Coach John Shulman is pleased with his teams charge into the lead nearing the end of first half Monday night at McKenzie Arena. The Mocs defeated the College of Charleston.The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga staked its claim Monday night for supremacy in Southern Conference men’s basketball.
The Mocs are on top after toppling the College of Charleston 91-88 in a showdown of the league’s division leaders. Both entered undefeated in league play.
Only the Mocs (10-8, 7-0) remain unblemished after they survived a furious early flurry from the Cougars.
“We at this moment haven’t done anything,” UTC coach John Shulman said. “I think that we wiped out the doubt that we’re any good. We’ve beat people, beat them close and tight. But people said, ‘You haven’t played Wofford, Furman and Charleston.’
“We wiped away doubt whether we’re any good.”