University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coach John Shulman is still a little ill. But there’s nothing team or family doctors can do to cure what ails him.
Only a win would make him feel better.
His Mocs tumbled hard and fast after beating Southern Conference power College of Charleston last Monday. They were walloped 88-56 at Wofford on Thursday and smacked 85-59 at Furman on Saturday.
“After watching it, I don’t feel much different than how it felt the first time,” Shulman said Monday. “We took two days off. And we have a home game Thursday [against UNC Greensboro], so it’s time to do what we do.”
That means, as Shulman described, playing defense and playing in a panic, with a backs-against-the-wall attitude. The Mocs have played their best basketball when they were underdogs, scrappers, the team that held opponents to fewer than 70 points.