Temple Owls NCAA Basketball News

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.

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:26 p.m. PHILADELPHIA - Lavoy Allen scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Temple to a 61-50 win over Virginia Tech on Friday night in a matchup of unbeaten teams.

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

GAME NOTES: The Temple Owls take on the Virginia Tech Hokies tonight at The Palestra in the Philly Hoop Classic.

Ramone Moore spent a good part of his summer playing basketball with hopes of making a big contribution to the Temple Owls basketball team.

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.

You can't stress enough how much John Thompson III has changed the culture of scheduling at Georgetown.

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.

Georgetown's Greg Monroe had a successful homecoming in the season opener. Now, the rest of the Hoyas hope to experience a happy homecoming of their own.

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

Garrett Williamson has always been known as a great defensive player. In fact, Williamson, a Saint Joseph's University senior, is one of the best defensive players in the Atlantic 10 Conference.A It's just the Hawks need Williamson to give them a boost offensively this season.

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

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 basketball program has received an oral commitment for its 2010 recruiting class from Aaron Brown, a 6-4 senior wing guard from St.