Chattanooga
1-0,0-0SoCon
UVA Wise
0-0,0-0SAC
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UVA Wise | 13 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 44 |
| Chattanooga | 13 | 25 | 17 | 30 | 85 |
11/2/2026 9:04:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Chattanooga began its 2026-27 campaign with a 41-point win in the Roundhouse
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - In front of a crowd of 1,630 Mocs fans, the UTC Women's Basketball team took down UVA Wise 85-44 in its season opener.Â
In the win, Chattanooga had 10 different players score and shot the ball at a rate of 58.2% (32-55). Defensively, UTC had 10 blocks, the most in a game since Feb. 9, 2019 against ETSU.Â
The Mocs move to 30-23 all-time in season openers in their 53-year history and have won their first game of the season five years in a row.Â
Final
Chattanooga, 85
UVA Wise, 44
Records
Chattanooga: 1-0
UVA Wise: 0-0* (game counted as an exhibition for the Division II program)
Series Notes
Chattanooga moves to 2-0 all-time against UVA Wise… The only other meeting was on Nov. 18, 2023 where the Mocs won 75-62 in the Roundhouse.
Individual Performances
- TaTianna Stovall scored a game-high 15 points in her Chattanooga debut.The sophomore was 70% (7-10) from the free-throw line.Â
- Sarah Owona knocked down a team-high two 3-pointers, as part of her 12-point performance. She also had four rebounds in the win.Â
- In her first college game, Lydia Ledford reached double figures with 10 points.
- Evie Bruce tallied nine points to go with seven rebounds, which tied a career high.
- London Weaver also had nine points and was a perfect 3-for-3 from the field and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line.Â
- Also with nine points for UTC was Izzy McPherson while Ava Card contributed eight points. McPherson also had three rebounds and two blocks. Card grabbed four rebounds. Â
- Gabbie Grooms stuffed the stat sheet posting a career-high nine rebounds along with seven points, four assists, a career-high four steals, and a career-high two blocks.Â
- Aaliyah Story scored six points and recorded three blocks in eight minutes during her collegiate debut.Â
Team Notables
- Chattanooga won the rebound battle 42-31.
- The Mocs knocked down six three points on 12 attempts for a 50% mark from deep.
- UTC dished out 16 assists while UVA Wise had eight.Â
- Chattanooga forced the Cavs into 20 turnovers and scored 22 points off those turnovers.
- UTC had 48 points in the paint to UVA Wise's 16.Â
How it HappenedÂ
McPherson drilled a triple 10 seconds into the game to put UTC ahead from the jump. Card had Chattanooga's next basket two minutes later, pushing the Mocs in front 5-2. A bucket from Grooms later put Chattanooga ahead five points before UVA Wise started to make a run, eventually taking the lead on a 3-pointer at the 1:48 mark. Seconds after checking into the game, Bruce buried a triple as the score was tied at 13 after one quarter.Â
Chattanooga opened the second quarter on a 13-0 run, holding UVA Wise scoreless for just over five minutes. Owona, Grooms, Stovall, Card, and Bruce all scored for the Mocs during the run. In total, the Mocs outscored the Cavs 25-8 in the second quarter to take a 38-21 lead into the locker room.
Owona had Chattanooga's first basket of the third quarter with a layup to push UTC ahead 40-22. Later in the quarter, Stovall scored eight straight points for Chattanooga to make it 50-27. In the final two minutes, Weaver made a triple and Ledford got an inside basket to go as the score read 55-31 at the end of 30 minutes.Â
After UVA Wise scored the first four points of the final period, Owona answered with a 3-pointer. Soon afterwards, Chattanooga started a 13-0 run, capped off by a Ledford 3-pointer to put UTC in front 71-36. With the help of Story's first six points of her college career down the stretch, Chattanooga extended its lead until the very end, closing out the 85-44 win. Â
Quotes
Deandra Schirmer, Head Coach
Response after jittery start
You see our response in the second quarter to be able to come out and get a single-digit quarter and respond the way that we've wanted to. I think that there's a lot of things that we need to work on and still fix, but to be able to respond the way that we wanted with some energy and effort and a lot of help from our bench was promising.Â
On how long she thinks it's going to take to figure out what this version of your team is like:
There's a lot of moving pieces that go into that. Health is one of them. I think when you're saying how long it will take; I think our focus is to be at our best come tournament time. This group is going to continue to get to know each other, but I feel like there's things that we've got to shore up right away. The first is turnovers. I think our rebounding is the second thing. The other stuff I think is going to naturally progress.Â
TaTianna Stovall, Forward
On the conversations after that first quarter
We need to pick it up and communicate better and just talk about everything on the court. We know who the shooters are, we know who the drivers are. Coach Schirmer was telling us that we need to do better on knowing who those people are and picking them up in our transitional defense as well.Â
Up Next: Chattanooga travels to Western Kentucky for its first road game of the season on Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. EST. The game is being streamed live on ESPN+ and over the radio airwaves on WFLI 96.1 FM/100.3 FM/1070 AM.
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