Wofford 88, Mocs 56

OK. I'll give them this one for a hangover game.

But this is getting old.

The Mocs are 5-5 on the road this year, but have gotten pounded in their five losses. Absolutely pounded. It was a 32 point loss to Austin Peay earlier this month, and now this one.

Let's make one thing clear- this does not mean that the Mocs can not beat Wofford in the SoCon Tourney. They certainly can. A different day and maybe things would have been different.

How do we know that things weren't going right? The Mocs got outrebounded by Wofford. This is a Mocs team that has been tremendous in most games in rebounding. But they were hammered tonight on the glass by one of the worst rebounding teams in the SoCon. They shot 36.2% from the floor. Only one Mocs got into double figures- Troy Cage, with 19. How Omar Wattad, Chris Early, Keegan Bell, DeAntre Jefferson, and Ricky Taylor can all fail to score in double figures is beyond me.

The team was not ready to play.

That is not to take anything away from Wofford. They are the defending champs and for good reason.

The Mocs have shown several bad things consistently. Teams shoot too well against them in recent games. Tonight, Wofford shot over 57% from the floor. The Terriers were really dominated by three players. Cameron Rundles had 23, Jamar Diggs had 24, and Noah Dahlman had 22. The rest of the team scored 19 points. Those three combined to shoot 27 of 35, or 77.1%. The rest of the Terriers shot 7 of 24, 29.2%.

Wofford and College of Charleston are the favorites in the conference at this point. CofC walked into Wofford and won earlier this year.

The Mocs have responded well previously to these types of performances. After the embarrassing loss to FIU, they beat Appalachian State and Western Carolina. After the humiliating loss to Austin Peay, they beat UNC-Greensboro, The Citadel, Samford, and College of Charleston. I'll forgive one this horrid performance coming off the nice win over College of Charleston. But they need to play much better against Furman on Saturday night- or else all the momentum gained by beating Charleston will be lost.

The good news- both Appalachian State and Western Carolina lost. The Mocs still lead the Catamounts by 2.5 games, and they lead Appalachian State by 3 games. They not lead Elon and UNC-Greensboro by 4 games, and Samford by 4.5 games. So the Mocs are still in good shape in the division race. This game does not damage the Mocs too badly- as long as they respond well against Furman.

GO MOCS!