Wyoming had far too much Hayden Dalton for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team Friday in Laramie.
The 6-foot-8 senior had 30 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Cowboys, who built a double-digit lead at the break but had to hold on for a 74-65 win over the baby Mocs in Lamont Paris’s head-coaching debut.
UTC is back on the road Monday with a game at Alabama-Birmingham.
Nat Dixon led five Mocs in double figures with 14 points. James Lewis Jr. scored 12 in his first college game, while Rodney Chatman had 11 and Makinde London and David Jean-Baptiste each chipped in 10. Chatman also had nine rebounds and five assists in 33 minutes before fouling out, while London had eight rebounds in 24 minutes before doing the same.
The Mocs started off well before a 14-0 run swung early momentum to the Cowboys, who led by as many as 16 in the first half before a London 3-pointer cut the halftime lead to 40-29.