The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball team has dropped three straight games, with Sunday’s 74-66 loss to Jacksonville wrapping up an 0-3 showing for the Mocs at the Goldie & Herman Ungar Classic in Mobile, Alabama.
The Mocs (2-4) return to competition at 4 p.m. Friday at Michigan, the 2018 national runner-up. They will travel to Ann Arbor the day before on Thanksgiving.
In Sunday’s game, each team shot 9-for-28 during a cold first half that ended with the Dolphins (2-4) leading 24-23.
UTC got going on offense after halftime, scoring 43 points on 52 percent shooting the rest of the way, but Jacksonville responded by shooting 58 percent and scoring 50 points in the same span.
“We can’t give up that much in one half,” UTC coach Lamont Paris said on the postgame radio broadcast. “We did some good things. We were good in the second half, we scored points, but you can’t give up 50.”