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Adjustments helped UTC women’s basketball team win

UTC's Jasmine Joyner, center, said communication was key during Saturday's SoCon win at ETSU, which completed a run of three straight road games. The Mocs lost the first two, ending a streak of conference wins at 51 regular-season games.
UTC's Jasmine Joyner, center, said communication was key during Saturday's SoCon win at ETSU, which completed a run of three straight road games. The Mocs lost the first two, ending a streak of conference wins at 51 regular-season games. UTC's Jasmine Joyner, center, said communication was key during Saturday's SoCon win at ETSU, which completed a run of three straight road games. The Mocs lost the first two, ending a streak of conference wins at 51 regular-season games.

By Gene Henley 3 min read

After a difficult stretch of road games, the worst is over for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team when it comes to travel in the Southern Conference.

Now comes the “home” stretch.

The Mocs finished the first half of their SoCon schedule 5-2, with five of those games on the road. That includes their past three, against Mercer, Samford and East Tennessee State – teams with a combined 16-5 record in league play. UTC went 1-2 during that three-game, 10-day stretch, but the Mocs will play five of their final seven games at McKenzie Arena, starting with Thursday’s game against Furman.

They suffered back-to-back losses to Mercer and Samford, with the first ending their conference winning streak at 51 regular-season games, but they bounced back with a 63-56 win over ETSU on Saturday in Johnson City.

“The team is fine. They’ve been fine,” UTC coach Jim Foster said on the postgame radio broadcast. “They needed to grow, and this was a big step. They needed to mature, and I think we walked in that direction.