SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Down eight points with a raucous Wofford crowd making things difficult, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team never flinched Saturday night.
UTC finished the game on a 23-7 run, holding the home team to one field goal in the final 8:58, and claimed a 73-65 Southern Conference win in front of 3,004 in the Terriers’ next-to-last game in Benjamin Johnson Arena.
The win snapped Wofford’s four-game win streak, which included a 131-127, four-overtime victory over Samford on Thursday. The Terriers previously had only one loss all season at home, 104-103 in overtime against The Citadel on Jan. 2.
It also gave the Mocs a crucial split in their toughest two-game road stretch in league play this season, with the two opponents – Furman and Wofford – sitting at 19 combined wins in the SoCon this year. The Mocs will be at Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday.
“This was huge,” UTC coach Matt McCall said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of a lot of wins, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been a part of a win with more adversity thrown at this team in the last 24-48 hours. To see how they responded, this was a terrific win against a great team in a great environment.