Temple Earns No. 11 Seed In South Region, Will Face Texas

PHILADELPHIA (Mar. 12) -- Fresh from cutting the nets at the Atlantic 10

Conference Championship, Coach John Chaney's Temple University

basketball team moves on to the NCAA Tournament for a 12th consecutive

year, where the Owls, seeded No. 11 in the South Region, will face Big

12 Conference runner-up and No. 6-seed Texas at the Louisiana Superdome

in New Orleans on Friday. The game is scheduled for a 12:30 p.m.

(Eastern) tip-off and will be televised live in Philadelphia by CBS

affiliate KYW (Channel 3), as well as broadcast on Temple Radio WRTI

(90.1 FM).

Temple (21-12) earned its' way into the national tournament by winning

a conference-record sixth A-10 Tournament crown with a 76-65 victory

over Massachusetts in the championship final this past Saturday. Junior

guard Lynn Greer, who averaged 22 points and seven assists over the

three-game competition, was named the tournament's Most Outstanding

Player. He was joined on the all-tourney team by senior guard Quincy

Wadley (20.7 ppg) and junior center Kevin Lyde (14.3 ppg, 9.6 rpg). The

Owls enter the NCAAs riding a seven-game win streak, their longest of

the season.

Texas (25-8), which joined Temple in New York City for the Preseason

NIT final four back in November, comes off a 54-45 loss to Oklahoma in

the Big 12 Tournament final. Under third-year head coach Rick Barnes,

the Longhorns won their previous eight games, including conference

tournament victories over Oklahoma State (55-54) and Baylor (76-62).

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