GAME NOTES: Samford (5-4) @ Chattanooga (9-2) (PDF)
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Samford men's basketball team wraps up a two game road swing on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at Chattanooga. Tipoff is set for 6 PM at McKenzie Arena. ESPN+ will provide complete coverage of the game.

Wednesday's tilt will be the 104th all-time on the hardwood between the Bulldogs (5-4, 1-1 SoCon) and Mocs (9-2, 0-2 SoCon). UTC leads the series standings 63-40, including two wins in a row. The Mocs swept the series in 2019-20 with a 92-84 win in Birmingham and a 105-67 victory at UTC.

Chattanooga enters Wednesday's game after back-to-back losses to open Southern Conference play, including an 84-79 defeat at VMI last Saturday.

David Jean-Baptist leads the Mocs in scoring at 19.3 points per game while Malachi Smith is averaging a double-double with 16.3 points and 11.0 rebounds.

The Bulldogs dropped a 94-84 Southern Conference contest at Wofford Saturday night at Richardson Indoor Stadium. With the loss, Samford falls to 5-4 overall and 1-1 in Southern Conference play, while Wofford improves to 5-3 overall and 2-0 in league games. Jacob Tryon led Samford with a career-high 19 points and seven rebounds. Myron Gordon scored 16 points with A.J. Staton-McCray and Preston Parks added 13 points each.

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• Samford enters Wednesday's game at Chattanooga averaging 86.9 points per game, ranking second in the SoCon and 12th in NCAA DI basketball.
• Myron Gordon , a 6-3 senior guard from Bordentown, N.J., iis leading the team in scoring, averaging 17.0 ppg to rank sixth in the league. Gordon, a two-time SoCon Player of the Week, scored a career-high 29 points at Georgia. 
• A.J. Staton-McCray, a 6-5 freshman from Charlotte, N.C., scored a career-high 23 points, making 7-of-8 shots from the floor and 5-of-6 from three-point range, in Samford's 133-84 win over Belhaven. McCray, who ranks 25th in the SoCon in scoring, is averaging 11.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game for the Bulldogs.
• Senior center Jacob Tryon , who is averaging 9.0 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, scored a career-high 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds in his last outing at Wofford.   
• Jalen Dupree, a 6-8 senior forward from Cordova, Tenn., made his 2020-21 debut in Samford's 133-84 win over Belhaven on Dec. 21, 2020. Dupree played 14 minutes while finishing with 14 points and nine rebounds. He enters Wednesday's game at UTC averaging 8.7 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.
• Senior Preston Parks started the season a little slowly, but has turned it on of late, scoring in double figures in his last two games. The Greenville, S.C., native, scored 13 points at Wofford on Saturday after a career-high 15 versus VMI. He is averaging 7.1 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
• Triston Chambers has increased his production of late, scoring a season-high 21 points versus Belhaven. The Coldwater, Ala., native, is averaging 6.7 points per game and is tied for the team lead with 16 made 3-pointers.
• Junior forward Logan Dye, a 6-8 forward from Haleyville, Ala., is averaging 10.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game coming into the week. He scored a career-high 21 points in the season-opener versus Alabama A&M.   
• Senior point guard Richardson Maitre , a 6-3 transfer from Florida Atlantic, leads Samford in assists with 32, averaging 3.8 per contest.
• Freshman point guard Jaron Rillie is coming on of late, ranking second on the team with 25 assists. 
• Samford's success this season has been fueled by the offensive production of its non-starters, who have outscored the opposition 428-147. In a 98-73 win over Covenant, the Bulldogs bench outscored the Scots, 48-21, and in a 96-83 win at Belmont, SU held a dominating 64-4 edge in bench scoring. In Saturday's heartbreaking loss at Georgia, the Bulldogs bench outscored UGA 44-19. In Saturday's win at Kennesaw State, the Bulldog bench dominated the scoring, 37-7. SU had it's largest bench scoring margin of the season, 94-21, in a 133-84 win over Belhaven on Dec. 21, 2020. Since Southern Conference play began, the Bulldogs' bench has outscored the opposition 77-49.
• The Bulldogs are playing their 103rd season in Samford University Men's Basketball history. Samford has won 1,129 games in its previous 102 seasons, including 604 as an NCAA Division I institution.