For just the second time in seven games, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team allowed a team to score more than 50 points.
The Mocs still ran their winning streak to seven games Monday afternoon.
UTC used a couple of big scoring runs to build leads in both halves and then used solid defense to hold on for a 67-54 win over a tough South Dakota team in the final day of the UTSA Holiday Classic in San Antonio, Texas.
“We are a team that’s going to have some droughts offensively,” UTC coach Jim Foster said on the postgame radio show. “We can’t let another team get away from us. We’re young; we don’t have that young go-to, create-your-own type of player.
“But the defense has remained solid. We really, really get after it, which forced a lot of turnovers and gave us some opportunitites to get in the open floor, and that’s pretty much the difference.”