Chattanooga secured a 93-72 victory over The Citadel in their Southern Conference matchup at McAlister Fieldhouse in Charleston, South Carolina. With this win, Chattanooga improved its season record to 12-17 overall and 6-10 in conference play, while The Citadel fell to 9-20 overall and matched Chattanooga’s conference record.
This game marked the 98th meeting between the two teams, with Chattanooga now leading the all-time series 76-22. In Southern Conference regular season games, Chattanooga holds a 71-19 advantage over The Citadel. Head coach Dan Earl achieved his 80th win at Chattanooga during his fourth season with the program.
Chattanooga managed to avoid being swept by The Citadel in regular season play after losing their previous encounter earlier this month. The last time The Citadel swept Chattanooga in a regular season was during the 1978-79 campaign.
The Mocs’ offense was efficient throughout the contest, scoring more than 90 points for a second consecutive game—a feat last accomplished by the team in January of 2024. Under head coach Dan Earl, Chattanooga is now 21-1 when reaching at least 90 points. The team shot 61.1% from the field and made nearly half of its three-point attempts (48.3%). This marks back-to-back games where they have shot above sixty percent from the floor, something that had not occurred since February of 1993.
A significant moment came during a first-half stretch when Chattanooga went on a season-best scoring run of 25 unanswered points—their longest such streak since January against VMI and their second run of at least twenty points this year.
Six different players scored in double figures for Chattanooga—something that had not happened against a Division I opponent this season. Guards Jordan Frison and Brennan Watkins each contributed sixteen points; forward Collin Mulholland recorded his first career double-double with thirteen points and eleven rebounds.
Reflecting on the game’s pivotal run and overall performance, head coach Dan Earl said: “Yeah, I didn’t realize it was 25-0 [scoring run]. Crazy. I don’t know how often I’ve seen that either. Our guys, I was proud of them. They came ready to play. We obviously made shots early. We were feeling good, and then, you know, obviously, you have to try and close out a game much better than that. We made that game much more difficult than it needed to be. It is hard to play with a lead, but that’s something we have to learn. But you talk about coming out ready to play and making shots and feeling good in the first half. I thought we did a really good job.”
Earl also addressed recent improvements: “I wish I could tell you it’s that we’re doing this and that differently or strategically, or this and that. It does help to make shots. We do have a couple guys playing with more confidence. I also think the ball is popping, snapping, moving at a higher rate now. And then defensively, you’ve seen we’ve switched some, we played some more zone. We’re mixing up defenses, and our defensive field goal percentage that is, we’re not giving up a terrible percentage to the opposing team. We’re really just trying to fight and be in the mix of things defensively.”
Collin Mulholland commented on maintaining momentum during their extended scoring run: “Yeah, I mean, they got some good looks, and they have some very good shooters so it was pretty fortunate for us that they weren’t knocking those down…it just…it was one of those days for us where…I think Brennan came in hit two threes; Jordan had his threes; we just got stuff going really early…a 25-0 run—it’s really hard not to keep momentum when you get…a run like that…after that it was just about trying to keep and maintain that lead.”
The Mocs led for nearly all of regulation—over thirty-eight minutes—and built their largest lead at thirty points midway through the first half before holding off any comeback attempt by The Citadel.
