Chattanooga head coach Jim Foster watches his team practice for the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament in this 2014 file photo.On a night when the shots weren’t falling for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team, the Mocs fell back onto what they do best: defense.
UTC used its pressure defense to rally from a 12-point second-half deficit and beat Furman 47-40, remaining unbeaten in Southern Conference play.
“When we picked up full-court defense. it went to another level,” UTC coach Jim Foster said on the radio broadcast after his team’s 10th win in a row. “We really started getting after it, but our half-court defense was decent.
“They played a very good defensive game as well, and we had a couple of players getting frustrated.”
The Mocs (14-3, 2-0) — who shot 29.7 percent from the floor for the game and were 4-of-15 from 3-point range — were led by 15 points from sophomore guard Chelsey Shumpert. Jasmine Joyner, Alicia “Red” Payne and Ka’Vonne Towns each had eight points in the win. Joyner blocked six shots, and Towns had five steals.