The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga earned the No. 3 seed for next week’s Southern Conference women’s basketball tournament with a 65-50 win over Western Carolina on Saturday in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
The Mocs ended the regular season 13-16 overall but 8-6 in league play and will face No. 6 seed UNC Greensboro at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in Asheville, North Carolina.
Western Carolina finished the regular season 4-25, 0-14 in league games.
Eboni Williams led UTC with 15 points and had seven rebounds. Bria Dial also scored in double digits with 11 points, and she and Williams each had two steals. Arianne Whitaker was just shy of a double-double with nine points and eight rebounds in just 14 minutes.
“I felt like we pushed tempo today, and we settled down at times,” first-year UTC coach Katie Burrows said after the game. “They did a good job in transition in the second half. We only gave up seven fast-break points, which was good.”