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\"Matt
Matt Ryan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ramond
Ramond Vila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mocs basketball team fell a basket short of remaining in the Southern Conference championship tournament and continuing its successful season. A final-second missed shot was followed by a second-chance offensive rebound opportunity that ended in frustration when a lost ball out of bounds then occurred, resulting in a 72-70 loss to Wofford.<\/p>\n

Still this Mocs team under third-year Head Coach Lamont Paris made a remarkable turnaround from its two previous seasons and became the 25th team in UTC history to post a 20-win season, finishing 20-13, 10-4 at home and 10-8 in Southern Conference play. For the fifth time in team annals, three players surpassed the 400 point level; Matt Ryan (507), Ramond Vila (441) and David Jean-Baptiste (417). The Mocs highest-scoring threesome in history was during the 1977 NCAA DII National Championship run when William Gordon 700, Wayne Golden 657 and Gary Stitch 373 combined to score 1,730 points.<\/p>\n

Ryan and Vila were named All-Southern Conference.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, in 2017-18, Chattanooga had the youngest team in NCAA Division I play. At the end of that season just one player, Jean-Baptiste, was returning to the 2018-19 team. With six returnees this year, the level of play vastly improved. Going into 2020-21, only Ryan and veteran Jonathan Scott will be gone, so Paris is optimistic about greeting an upperclassman-laden squad when practice resumes.<\/p>\n

Another important point is the Mocs players posted a team 3.17 GPA during in fall 2019, and their mental prowess showed with intelligent, team-oriented play.<\/p>\n

Other highlights from this season:<\/h4>\n
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  • Ryan\u2019s 507 points marks just the fourth occasion this century with a 500-point scorer, 25th on record. The last? 633 by Stephen McDowell in 2009.<\/li>\n
  • Seven wins against D-I non-conference opponents in the regular season for the fourth time: 1987-88 (7-4), 2015-16 (9-2) and 2016-17 (7-4).<\/li>\n
  • 23-point road win at The Citadel was the largest margin of victory in a road contest since Dec. 29, 2015 against Lipscomb in Nashville.<\/li>\n
  • Led NCAA Division I opponents by 28 or more points six times this season: Samford (40), Wofford (30), Alabama State (30), The Citadel (29), South Alabama (28) and at The Citadel (28).<\/li>\n
  • 105 points vs Samford tied for the eighth-highest total against a D-I opponent and ties for fifth in a conference matchup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mocs basketball team fell a basket short of remaining in the Southern Conference championship tournament and continuing its successful season.\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,101004],"tags":[113],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"category-spring-2020-edition","9":"tag-basketball","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\nMocs Men Return to a 20-Win Season With Remarkable Turnaround - UTC Magazine Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mocs basketball team fell a basket short of remaining in the Southern Conference championship tournament and continuing its successful season.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mocs Men Return to a 20-Win Season With Remarkable Turnaround - 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