Temple University Athletics
Owls Cruise Past UMass, 75-48
2.1.00 | Men's Basketball
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) (Feb. 1) -- Mark Karcher scored 17 points as No. 21 Temple continued its defensive dominance with a 75-48 victory over
Massachusetts on February 1.
Temple, which ranks first in the nation in defense while allowing opponents 53.5 points per game, gave up more than 47 points for the first time in five games. The Owls (15-4, 8-1 Atlantic 10) outrebounded UMass 48-20 for their sixth consecutive victory and ninth in 10 games.
Monty Mack scored 14 points to lead the Minutemen (11-9, 5-3), who had their lowest scoring output of the season and their worst loss ever in the Mullins
Center. UMass lost for just the second time in eight games.
Temple led 23-19 before posting a 20-2 run that put the game away early. The Owls held UMass scoreless for 7:32 before Micah Brand made a layup with four
seconds left in the first half.
The Minutemen then went scoreless for the first 3:55 of the second half. By that time, the Owls led 43-21, and it was never close again.
Mack and Temple's Quincy Wadley, the Atlantic 10's co-players of the week last week, each had just one basket for most of the first half. But Wadley added two
in the final two minutes of the half and a 3-pointer for the first basket of the second half to finish with nine points.
Temple had won just once before at the Mullins Center, which opened in 1993.
