Wildcat Men's Basketball Hosts Chattanooga Saturday Night

Davidson Wildcats (11-12, 5-7 SoCon) vs. Chattanooga Mocs (14-10, 10-2 SoCon)

Date: Feb. 5, 2011 - 7 p.m.
Site: John M. Belk Arena (5,223 capacity) - Davidson, N.C.
Audio: John Kilgo calls the action on the Davidson Radio Network (1450 AM, 1350 AM and online at DavidsonWildcats.com)
Video: Live on Davidson All-Access
Web sites: Davidson (DavidsonWildcats.com), Chattanooga (ChattanoogaMocs.com)

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Layup Line
• Davidson caps a hectic week with a Southern Conference home game against Chattanooga Saturday. It's the only meeting between the Wildcats and Mocs this season.
• The 'Cats are finishing a stretch where they play five games in 11 days.
• Davidson has won three in a row and is coming off a 62-49 road win at Samford Thursday. The Wildcats are 4-6 in their last 10.
• The 'Cats are 5-3 at home this season but 2-3 in home league games.
• Davidson coach Bob McKillop is six wins shy of his 400th career victory. He is slated to coach his 1,000th game at Wofford Feb. 9 (344 as a high school coach).
• Davidson is in fifth place in the SoCon South Division while Chattanooga sits atop the North Division.
• Chattanooga is 7-2 in its last nine and coming off a 75-66 home win over Georgia Southern Thursday.
• The Mocs are 5-6 in road games this season and 3-2 in road league games.
• Omar Wattad leads the Mocs in scoring with 14.8 points a game, and Ricky Taylor averages 13.1 points.
• Keegan Bell averages 9.6 points and 6.5 assists, and Chris Early averages 9.2 points and 6.3 rebounds.

Series History
• Chattanooga leads the all-time series 32-20, but the Wildcats have won eight of the last nine.
• The series began with a 93-87 Chattanooga victory in 1978.
• The Wildcats are 11-10 against Chattanooga at home, 7-3 in Belk Arena and 15-13 under Bob McKillop.
• Jake Cohen led four Davidson players in double figures in the scoring column with 16 points, but the Wildcats fell 78-73 in the last meeting against Chattanooga.
• Cohen finished with seven rebounds, and 14 of his points came in the second half.
• Brendan McKillop tallied 15 points, five rebounds and three assists, while Nik Cochran recorded 13 points and four boards.
• Will Archambault finished with 10 points, and Bryant Barr scored eight.
• The score was tied 52-52 coming out of the under eight-minute media timeout, but Chattanooga netted nine straight points to open a 61-52 lead.
• Davidson cut the margin to six once and five once, on 3-pointers by Cohen and JP Kuhlman, over the next two minutes, but each time, the Mocs had an answer on the offensive end.
• After a pair of Cohen free throws made the lead seven with 3:47 to go, Ricky Taylor and Ty Patterson combined for the next six points of the game to make the cushion 12.
• Behind 41 points from Stephen Curry, Davidson held off a late comeback attempt by Chattanooga in a 100-95 win in the last meeting in Belk Arena.
• Davidson took its largest lead of the game, 92-78, with 2:21 remaining, before Chattanooga went on a 15-5 run to cut the deficit to five with 30 seconds left. A pair of back-to-back 3-pointers by the Mocs brought the score to within two at 97-95 with 27 seconds left in the game. Curry then hit one-of-two free throws at the other end to push the Davidson lead back to three with 19 seconds on the clock.
• After a Davidson timeout, Chattanooga brought the ball down looking for the tie, but was unable to connect on a long 3-point attempt by Stephen McDowell. Steve Rossiter gathered the rebound, and Curry knocked down a pair of free throws on the other end to seal the win.
• Will Archambault had a season-high 20 points off the bench for the Wildcats, hitting 8-of-10 from the field.
• Andrew Lovedale recorded a career high by pulling down 18 rebounds, including 14 in the first half.

Leftovers from Samford
• The game was played in front of an estimated 200 fans as Samford made the contest a “closed-door event” because of sleet and icy road conditions in the area.
• The Wildcats had to spend an extra night in Birmingham because of the ice storm.
• It was Davidson's first win over a SoCon North Division opponent.

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