Men's Basketball Takes on Chattanooga Monday

Davidson Wildcats (14-13, 9-6 SoCon) vs. Chattanooga Mocs (13-15, 5-10 SoCon)

Date: Feb. 22, 2010
Time: 7 p.m.
Site: The McKenzie Arena (10,928 capacity) - Chattanooga, Tenn.
Audio: John Kilgo calls the action on the Davidson Radio Network (1350 AM, 1240 AM, 95.7 FM [joined in progress] and online at www.DavidsonWildcats.com)
Video: Live video available on Chattanooga's Web site
Web sites: Davidson (DavidsonWildcats.com), Chattanooga (www.gomocs.com)

Full game notes (PDF)

Layup Line
• The Wildcats continue a stretch where they play five games in 11 days with a road contest at Chattanooga Monday in The McKenzie Arena.
• The final three games of the regular season are against Southern Conference North Division opponents Chattanooga, UNC?Greensboro and Elon. Davidson will be playing all three for the first time this season.
• Davidson is in sole possession of third place in the South Division. The Citadel is one game back, but the Wildcats own the tiebreaker against the Bulldogs by virtue of having won both regular-season games.
• The top two teams in each division get byes into the quarterfinals of the upcoming SoCon Tournament in Charlotte.
• The best seed the Wildcats can get in the tourney is third in the South, meaning Davidson will have to play a first round game in the tourney for the first time since 2001.
• The Wildcats played the first contest of each of their two-game series against SoCon South Division opponents on the road and went 3-2. The 'Cats finished the regular season 7-3 against South Division foes.
• Davidson has won six of its last eight games overall and is coming off a 61-58 home victory over Furman Saturday.
• The Wildcats are 4-5 on the road this season and 4-3 in league games away from home.
• Davidson lost its last game in The McKenzie Arena, falling 59-52 to College of Charleston in the SoCon Tourney semifinals last March.
• Chattanooga enters the contest on a five-game losing skid but owns a 10-5 record at home, including 5-3 in SoCon games. The Mocs are coming off a 60-54 setback at Samford Saturday.
• Ty Patterson leads the Mocs in scoring with 15 points a game to go along with five rebounds a contest.
• Ricky Taylor averages 11 points, and Ridge McKeither averages 9.1 points and 6.1 rebounds.
• Keegan Bell is among the SoCon leaders in assists with 4.6 helpers a game.

Series History
• Chattanooga leads the all-time series 31-20, but the Wildcats have won the last eight.
• The series began with a 93-87 Chattanooga victory in 1978.
• The Wildcats are 5-12 against Chattanooga in The McKenzie Arena and 15-12 against the Mocs under Bob McKillop.
• Stephen Curry tallied 32 points and eight assists to lead Davidson to a 92-70 SoCon victory over Chattanooga in front of a crowd of 9,234 at McKenzie Arena in the last meeting.
• Curry hit 5 3-pointers, including a 75-footer to beat the buzzer at the end of the first half.
• Andrew Lovedale added 17 points and 12 rebounds on 8-of-12 shooting, and Ben Allison scored 12 points off the bench for the Wildcats. Bryant Barr scored nine, and Will Archambault added eight.
• Stephen McDowell led the Mocs with 17 points, and Nicchaeus Doaks collected 15 points and 10 rebounds.
• Curry's buzzer-beater came at an opportune moment for the Wildcats. Chattanooga had whittled an 18-point deficit down to 10 and had the ball with 25.5 seconds left and a chance for the last shot of the half.
• Doaks missed a layup with four seconds left, and Lovedale got the rebound. He handed the ball off, and Curry took one dribble, let it fly and hit nothing but net.
• The shot sparked a 13-3 run as Davidson started the second frame with a 10-2 spurt to open a 51-31 lead on an Archambault layup 4:15 into the stanza.

Leftovers from Furman
• Archambault and Bryant Barr each became the school's all-time leader in games played with 131.
• Davidson moved into sole possession of third place in the SoCon South Division.
• The 'Cats have won 10 straight against the Paladins.

Claw Marks
• With nine at Western Carolina, Bryant Barr went over 700 points for his career and now has 714.
• Barr needs two 3-pointers to move in the top-5 for career triples at Davidson.
• With 1,033 points, Archambault is the 38th player to score over 1,000 points in school history. He needs 73 rebounds for 500 career caroms.
• With 552 points and 556 rebounds, Steve Rossiter is the 30th player in school history to record over 500 points and 500 rebounds.
• Davidson coach Bob McKillop is 19 wins shy of his 400th career victory.
• Brendan McKillop (108) and JP?Kuhlman (83) each have a chance to record 100-plus assists this season. That's happened just twice during the Bob McKillop era. Jason Richards (293) and Stephen Curry (104) did it in 2007-08 and Jason Zimmerman (135) and Chris Alpert (134) did it in 1992-93.
• Davidson has hit 13 or more 3-pointers in five games this season (Fredonia State, The Citadel, Gonzaga, TCNJ, Penn).
• Davidson lost 91-88 to Cornell in overtime at the Holiday Festival in Madison Square Garden Dec. 20. It was the 'Cats' first overtime game since an 85-81 double-overtime loss at Charlotte Nov. 30, 2005.
• The 'Cats played their first overtime game in Belk Arena since 2005 against The Citadel Jan. 30, and posted a 67-63 win.
• Davidson's 61-52 victory over Hofstra Dec. 21, was the first time Wildcat coach Bob McKillop has coached against his alma mater.
• The Wildcats played their first four games away from home. It's the first time they have started a season with four road games since 2000-01.
• It's the latest Davidson has opened its home schedule since the 2002-03 campaign, when the 'Cats' first home game was Nov. 30 against Washington & Lee.
• Appalachian State's win Feb. 11 gives them a regular-season series sweep over the Wildcats. It's the first time Davidson has been swept in a regular-season series by a SoCon opponent since 2000-01. Wofford has also won both games of the season series against the Wildcats.

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