JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 10, 2026) – Well, it's the big show.

The ETSU men's basketball team returns to national television as they host the Chattanooga Mocs on Wednesday night at Freedom Hall. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. with live coverage on CBS Sports Network.

MATCHUP: ETSU (18-6, 10-1) vs Chattanooga (10-15, 4-8)
DATE: February 11, 7:00pm
VENUE: Freedom Hall Civic Center (Johnson City, TN)
TV: CBS Sports Network (Dave Friedman, Dean Keener)
RADIO: WXSM-AM 640 (Jay Sandos, Bruce Tranbarger)
LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast
TICKETS: ETSUTickets.com
GAME SPONSOR: Mahoney's

Six games remain in the 2025-26 regular season, and the championship race is coming into focus. ETSU leads Wofford by one game in the SoCon standings, while Furman and Mercer have fallen off the pace and now sit three games back of the Bucs. ETSU's magic number – the combination of team wins and opponent losses that mathematically clinches a finishing position – is currently six for the regular season title. The magic number for one of the top two seeds is four, and the magic number to ensure a first round bye is three. This is ETSU's fifth of six schedule games on national television this year. The Bucs are 6-1 on national TV since the start of last season under Brooks Savage with the loss coming at North Carolina on December 16, 2025.

Bucs point guard Allen Strothers seeks a piece of individual history as the ninth player in school history to collect 300 assists. He currently sits at 294. Strothers has found steady production by feeding Cam Morris III, Blake Barkley, and more recently Jordan McCullum on the interior. Morris is 29th in the country in field goal percentage at 59.8%, while Barkley has scored in double figures in 12 straight games, with 15 or more points in eight of them. McCullum has come on strong the last three games, averaging 14.3 points and shooting 68% from the field.

Chattanooga has dropped five of its last six games as their offense has run dry. The Mocs were held under 70 points in four of their five losses in that stretch and scored 71 in the fifth, a 78-71 defeat to The Citadel at McKenzie Arena on Saturday. They have fallen to eighth in the SoCon in scoring offense and are outside the top 300 in the country in rebounds per game but continue to be dangerous on the perimeter, standing 22nd in the nation with 10.1 made threes per game at a 35.3% clip.

Since first meeting in December 1961, ETSU and Chattanooga have met 104 times in men's basketball, making the Mocs ETSU's second most common opponent behind Appalachian State. Chattanooga holds a 56-48 lead in the all-time series, but the Bucs snapped a five-game regular season losing streak to Chattanooga with a 67-66 win at the Roundhouse on January 21. Morris had a double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Barkley scored the game-winning points at the free throw line with 4.6 seconds left.

For more information on ETSU men's basketball, go to ETSUBucs.com.