The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball team used a big second quarter and a strong showing from the bench to beat Western Carolina 72-58 Thursday night and stay near the top of the Southern Conference standings.
After a back-and-forth first quarter in which they trailed by as many as five points, the Mocs (10-11, 5-1) used a 14-2 run in the second to build a 41-28 halftime lead with a balanced scoring attack.
UTC coach Katie Burrows credited her team’s patience for the surge.
“I wish that we had continued that in the third and fourth quarter,” she said. “I thought we were a lot more patient in the second quarter. We were still taking too many 3s, but we weren’t settling as much.”
UTC finished with three double-figure scorers, led by sophomore Brooke Burns with 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and just one turnover. Redshirt junior post Arianne Whitaker had 13 points and six rebounds, and junior Lakelyn Bouldin scored 11 points and was 5-for-5 from the line on a night when the Mocs made 16 of 23 free throws.