UTC Women’s Basketball Team Ready to Start SoCon Play

   Playing perhaps the toughest non-conference schedule in school history has taught Coach Foster plenty about the Chattanooga Mocs.

Reporter-"What have the previous 14 games taught you about your team?"

Said Foster-"That we can guard people. That we can move the ball. We’re a good team. Some of the players are starting to evolve a little bit."

Said center Jasmine Joyner-"I feel like we know how to be a team when hard times come because we have been in that position. We know how to pick each other up. We know what to do and what not to do."

Reporter-"Do you think your non-conference schedule has really prepared your team for the SoCon?"

Said Foster-"You certainly hope so. If you look at the rest of the conference, and you look at their RPI’s, we’re sort of the one that sticks out. Now we’ve got to take care of our business in the conference.

    Foster admits he doesn’t have to mention the SoCon season starts up Thursday at Wofford.

Said Foster-"What did we just have, the highest GPA the student-athletes have had here correct? If they can’t figure out conference starts the next game we play, then maybe we need to start questioning the GPA."(laughter)

    Jasmine Joyner can’t wait for conference play to begin so she can rule the paint with her shot-blocking ability.

Said Joyner-"I love my blocks. I kind of like the one where it’s dramatic because if you just knock it down, they can still get the ball and put it back up. I’m trying to get a game where I don’t have any fouls in the first half."

Said Foster-"You stop trying to block shots when you pick up an early foul in the first half. You’re not a shot-blocker for the rest of the half. But having said that, Jazz has to have that mentality of backing off. Playing good, sound position defense."