The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga earned yet another Southern Conference women’s basketball victory Thursday.
But it didn’t come without some tense moments.
The Mocs improved to 43-2 all-time against Wofford with a 53-40 win over the Terriers in Spartanburg, S.C. It was the program’s 49th consecutive conference victory – including tournaments – and No. 50 can come Saturday at Furman at 3 p.m. in the second half of a doubleheader, with the UTC men facing the Paladins at 12:30.
“We shot ourselves in the foot on more than one occasion,” UTC coach Jim Foster said on the postgame radio broadcast. “That’s the bad thing about this team. The good thing about this team is they don’t stop. They play very hard and they scrounge around and get done what they had to get done.”
The Mocs won Thursday despite not hitting a field goal in the third quarter and committing 22 turnovers, which turned into 24 Terriers points. They led 25-14 at halftime but didn’t score for the first 7:21 of the third quarter and watched Wofford reel off 12 consecutive points to take a 26-25 lead.