BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team had no answer for Samford’s Drew Windler on Saturday at the Hanna Center.
The 6-foot-9 big man buried the Mocs with five 3-pointers and a season-high 25 points to lead Samford to an 81-70 win — the Bulldogs’ first in Southern Conference play this season.
“On the road you’ve got to make every little play, every little play, and we did not make every little play,” Mocs coach John Shulman said. “Our effort was good — we had 18 offensive rebounds — so our effort was good. It was just little plays, a box-out here and a box-out there.”
Samford had lost its first four SoCon games by an average of just over six points, so “they’d been close” to getting that first win, Shulman said.
The Mocs (9-10, 3-3) found themselves in a big first-half hole following a drought of nearly six minutes. Samford (4-12, 1-4) led 44-32 at halftime and maintained the double-digit advantage for the first five minutes of the second.