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 Alex Barlow added 11 points while Kameron Woods posted 10 points
and a career-high 16 rebounds for Butler, which shot 41.5 percent
from the floor after setting a school record with a 71.9-percent
effort its season-opening win against Maine. Andrew Chrabascz
contributed nine points and Roosevelt Jones finished with eight
points and seven assists for the Bulldogs (2-0).
Casey Jones scored all of his team-high 14 points in the final 12
minutes for Chattanooga. Eric Robertson made his first four 3-point
attempts before finishing 4-for-5 and scored 12 points off the bench
for the Mocs (1-2), who were outrebounded 49-21 in a one-sided loss
Sunday against No. 4 Wisconsin but only 38-31 against the Bulldogs.
 Butler struggled after Chattanooga switched to a zone defense in the
first half and went 9:08 without a field goal, turning a 9-3 lead
into a 14-10 deficit. Butler found its rhythm in time to move ahead
25-22 at the half, but still shot 34.8 percent from the floor in the
opening 20 minutes – the same as Chattanooga.
The Bulldogs went ahead by double digits on Tyler Wideman’s layup
with 12:36 left. Jones, the top returning scorer for Chattanooga
this season, scored his first points on a dunk about a minute later
and added a free throw to cut the deficit to seven, but that was as
close as the Mocs would get as the Bulldogs came back with a 9-0 run
to go up by 16 with 6:53 on the clock.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Woods averaged nine rebounds per game last season to
lead the Big East Conference. … Butler shot 21-for-34 from the
free-throw line and Chattanooga finished 10-of-16. ... Dunham spent
part of last summer touring the Philippines with Athletes In Action.
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