No. 23 UTC women grind out win over ETSU

UTC women's basketball coach Jim Foster directs players during the Mocs' SoCon basketball game against the Furman Paladins on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tenn. UTC won 67-45. UTC women's basketball coach Jim Foster directs players during the Mocs' SoCon basketball game against the Furman Paladins on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tenn. UTC won 67-45.

By Jim Tanner February 3, 2015 4 min read

Mocs move up

UTC moved up two spots to No. 23 in the Associated Press women’s Top 25 poll released Monday afternoon. The Mocs received 92 points — up from 60 in last week’s poll — and are ranked ahead of George Washington and Syracuse and one spot behind Georgia.

In the middle of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball game at East Tennessee State early Monday, the Mocs moved up two spots in The Associated Press Top 25 to No. 23.

How long they would stay in the national rankings was very much in doubt, however, as the Buccaneers were giving the Mocs everything they could handle in a showdown between the only two teams unbeaten in the Southern Conference.

In the end, UTC (20-3, 8-0) pulled away for a 64-56 win to run its winning streak to 16 games.

“This was a game that was called a little different from other games we play, and that may be because of (ETSU’s) physicality,” coach Jim Foster said on the postgame radio show. “Those are the games where you just have to figure a way, and we did. We figured out a way to win the game.”