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D.J. Kennedy scored 15 points as St. John's beat Temple 55-48 in the finale of the Philly Hoop Group Classic on Saturday night.

De'Sean Butler stopped rushing his shot, stepped up his intensity and helped No.

Allen leads Temple over Virginia Tech 61-50 Eds: APNewsNow. Temple 61, Virginia Tech 50.

Twice a week, from his high school years through college, Fran McCaffery played summer-league basketball on Temple's campus, located in the heart of Philadelphia.

Links to print recaps will be added when I get them. Yes, Penn and Drexel really did shoot a combined 0-19 from three-point range.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Good news for Ball State: Its next opponent shudders at the mere thought of playing zone defense.

Between the low score and two former Ivy League coaches opposing each other again, it was natural to refer to Georgetown's riveting home opener as a 'Princeton-Penn kind of game.' But one look at Greg Monroe seizing the game in the final seconds, and it's also easy to see why John Thompson III quickly -- and correctly -- killed that angle.

'It was like Princeton because I was sitting on one bench and Franny was sitting on the other bench,' the Hoyas' coach said of his counterpart, Temple's Fran Dunphy. 'In every other way, it's not like Penn and Princeton.'

Photos courtesy of sienasaints.cstv.com and the Associated Press Tonight's big match up will be the Saints Alex Franklin and Ryan Rossiter against the Owls Lavoy Allen in the paint The Siena Saints have found themselves in the NCAA tournament at the end of the last two seasons.

Greg Monroe scored on a driving layup with 6.5 seconds to play, rescuing No. 19 Georgetown from a lackluster Tuesday afternoon performance to give the Hoyas a 46-45 win over Temple.

Whether the games were ugly or pretty, Georgetown found all sorts of ways to lose the close ones last season -- enough to sink the Hoyas down to the NIT.

Greg Monroe scored on a driving layup with 6.5 seconds to play, rescuing No. 19 Georgetown from a lackluster Tuesday afternoon performance to give the Hoyas a 46-45 win over Temple.

This isn't really a preseason version of the poll, because the season is already underway.

Ryan Brooks scored 23 points and sparked a key first-half run in Temple's 76-56 win over Delaware on Saturday.

As a reminder, incoming freshmen have been excluded from this series. - Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Big Ten: Part One , Part Two , Part Three - Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Big 12: Part One , Part Two , Part Three - Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Pac-10: Part One , Part Two - Top NBA Draft Prospects in the SEC: Part One , Part Two , Part Three ...

Coach: Fran Dunphy Last season: 22-12 Postseason: Lost in first round of the NCAA Tournament to Arizona State, 66-57. Last league title: 2008 Last NCAA berth: 2008 PROJECTED STARTERS C Lavoy Allen , Jr.

Temple held its men's basketball media day today, and I hopped on the Broad Street Line to pay a visit to Fran Dunphy and company.

Temple's Lavoy Allen and Ryan Brooks have been extensively preparing to lead this season's edition of Fran Dunphy's team.

So what do we know about the Atlantic 10, aside from the fact that it will now, for whatever reasons, be headquartered in Newport News, Va.? Well, Dayton has been picked as the team to beat in men's basketball , having received 33 of a possible 57 first-place votes.

Here's one line that will be used one last time: It's no longer Christmas time at Temple .

Temple 's basketball program has received a verbal commitment for the Class of 2010 from Anthony Lee, a 6-9 power forward from Orlando, Fla.