If there is a rock-bottom moment for University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior guard Trey Bonham, it was probably walking off the Hannah’s Cherokee Center court in Asheville following the Mocs’ 80-77 overtime loss to Furman in the Southern Conference semifinals.
The 6-foot senior had missed shots at the end of regulation and overtime in the loss that halted the Mocs’ 12-game win streak and ended the team’s quest for a NCAA tournament bid. After the game, Bonham shouldered a lot of the blame for the loss, feeling it was his fault.
His father, Robert, told a reporter later that evening that Trey “was pretty beat up” about what his son perceived as losing the game. There were some suggestions online that he was to blame as well, which didn’t help.
“It was rough, honestly,” Bonham said. “That (the NCAA tournament) was the biggest goal throughout the year. Everybody knows that and I’ve never been to the tournament myself, and I think it was a couple of days where I felt like my career was almost a failure.”
The numbers say otherwise. Bonham is a three-time All-SoCon selection with 1,633 career points, which would rank sixth all-time in UTC history had he spent his entire career here.