Temple University Athletics
Saturday, March 19
Salt Lake City, Utah
4:05 PM
Temple University
vs
Arizona State
Head Coach Tonya Cardoza speaking to the media
Women's Basketball Faces the Media; Set to Face Arizona State in NCAA First Round
3.18.11 | Women's Basketball
Owls are in Salt Lake City for their eighth straight NCAA appearance
Temple's NCAA Press Conference (March 18) (Video)
Head Coach Tonya Cardoza Quotes (PDF)
Student-Athlete Quotes (PDF)
Arizona State Coach and Student-Athlete Quotes (PDF)
Postseason Media Guide (PDF)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Owls have arrived in Salt Lake City and are preparing to make a run in their eighth-straight NCAA Tournament. Temple will face Arizona State on Saturday, March 19 at 4:05 p.m. (EST) at the Huntsman Center on the campus of the University of Utah. The game will be televised as part of wrap-around coverage on ESPN2.
On Friday, Temple head coach Tonya Cardoza along with senior Qwedia Wallace and juniors Kristen McCarthy and Shey Peddy faced the media at the Owls' official press conference. Archived video and quotes from the press conference can be found using the above links. The team then held an hour and a half practice at the Huntsman Center.
Temple (23-8) is a 10 seed while Arizona State (20-10) is a seven seed. This is not the first time the two teams have met in the first round, as it happened just three years ago in 2008.
Arizona State is 3-0 all-time against Temple, but the teams have only met once in the last 23 years. The Owls and the Sun Devils were matched up in the NCAA First Round in 2008 in College Park, Md., and Arizona State came away with a 61-54 win. Prior to that meeting the teams had not faced each other since 1988.
Temple will make its eighth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011, this year as a 10 seed, facing seventh-seeded Arizona State in the first round...The Owls advanced to the NCAA Second Round a year ago as an eight seed, defeating ninth-seeded James Madison 65-53 before losing to eventual national champ Connecticut.
Head coach Tonya Cardoza, the 2010-11 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, has now taken Temple to the NCAA's as an at-large team in all three of her years with the program. Junior Shey Peddy earned A-10 First Team and All-Defensive Team honors this season while junior Kristen McCarthy was named to the A-10 Second Team and senior Qwedia Wallace was selected to the A-10 Third Team.
Temple's top three scorers are about as balanced as it gets, with Peddy at 14.0 ppg followed by Wallace
at 13.8 ppg and McCarthy at 13.2 ppg.
Temple is 4-9 all-time in its NCAA Tournament games, with a 2-4 record over the last four seasons. The Owls will now have 10 appearances all-time including a current streak of eight straight. Temple is one of just six schools to have both its men's and women's teams represented in the NCAA Tournament for the last four years straight. (Duke, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M and Xavier).
After beginning the season 3-2, Arizona State went on a seven-game win streak which included a 79-66 win over current No. 10 DePaul and a 2-0 start in Pac-10 play. The Sun Devils are 6-2 over their last eight games, and ASU?is led by senior guard Dymond Simon with 13.5 ppg.
TEMPLE'S DANCE TEAMS
This marks Temple's 10th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Owls have advanced to the second round four times, but never to the Sweet 16.
WALLACE SETS 3-POINT RECORD
With 161 three-pointers, Qwedia Wallace holds the all-time career record at Temple. Recent Big 5 Hall of Fame inductee Stacey Smalls held the record previously with 154.
OWLS CLAIM OUTRIGHT BIG 5 TITLE
The 2010-11 Big 5 title is Temple's alone as the Owls edged Saint Joseph's 52-49 on Feb. 23, completing a perfect 4-0 sweep of the city series this season. Last year was the first time in six seasons that Temple had NOT won or shared the title, and the year before the Owls shared the honor with Saint Joseph's.
The Big 5 title is Temple's ninth overall and eighth outright since the Big 5 tradition was established for women's basketball in 1979-80.
TEMPLE VS. THE POLLS
Temple is 12-93 all-time against ranked opponents, but has won seven in the last six years. The Owls are 7-23 since the 2004-05 season. Their most recent win vs. a ranked opponent was Feb. 25, 2009 against #13 Xavier.
TOPS IN A-10 DEFENSE
In the conference-only stats, Temple dominated the defensive categories. The Owls finished first in scoring defense (48.4 ppg), field goal pct. defense (.335), 3-pt pct. defense (.265), blocks (5.6 pg), steals (10.9 pg) and turnover margin (+7.3). Temple was second in scoring margin (+21.4 ppg). Shey Peddy finished #1 in steals (3.6 spg) and Victoria Macaulay took third in blocks for league games (1.8 bpg).
LOW TURNOVER RATE
The Owls rank 7th in the nation for fewest turnovers at 13.7 per game. After just once recording fewer than 10 turnovers in 2009-10, Temple has done so seven times this year, with season-lows of seven vs. #7 Ohio State and at GW. In a somewhat unusual statistical feat, Temple has forced its opponents into double-digit turnovers in 112 consecutive games.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Surprisingly for a team that had never been a real three-point threat, this year's squad has proven very capable behind the arc and is averaging 6.6 threes per game (3rd in the A-10). The Owls sank 14 vs. Richmond, 12 vs. #7 Ohio State and made 10 five other times (at #13 UCLA, vs. Rutgers, at Ohio, vs. Akron and at GW).
RECORD-SETTING WIN
Temple's 89-36 win at George Washington on Feb. 16 was impressive from beginning to end. After going down 0-2 the Owls scored 28 unanswered points, eventually winning by 53 to record the second-largest margin of victory in the history of the program.
The Owls achieved a rare feat with six players scoring in double figures. They scored a season-high 52 points in the first half, tied their season high with 26 assists and tied their season low with seven turnovers all while winning their 13th straight game and 20th overall.
PEDDY THEFT
Shey Peddy, who has recorded at least one steal in 30 of Temple's 31 games, ranks second in the A-10 with 3.1 steals per game. Peddy recorded an impressive eight steals in the Owls' win at UMass, marking her career high. Peddy also ranks 15th in NCAA Division I?with her 3.1 spg. At 95 steals for the season, she currently ranks second on the all-time single-season steals list at Temple, needing one more to tie for first.
THREE GRAND
An impressive three Owls (Temple's three leading scorers) reached the 1,000-point milestone this season. Junior Shey Peddy was first, hitting the mark on Dec. 21. Her current 1,288 points include two years playing at DI? Wright State.
Junior Kristen McCarthy was next, reaching the milestone in a win vs. Saint Joseph's on Jan. 19, and has now scored 1,178 points to rank 11th all-time at Temple.
Senior Qwedia Wallace led the Owls with 21 points in a win at UMass on Jan. 26 to hit exactly 1,000 for her career. She was the 19th player in the history of the program to achieve the feat, and now ranks 12th with 1,173 points.
OWLS RISING ABOVE EXPECTATION
After three years of finishing higher than predicted in the A-10, the Owls were picked to finish third this year and once again bettered that standing. Temple was picked fifth in 2009-10 and went on to tie for second.
Head Coach Tonya Cardoza Quotes (PDF)
Student-Athlete Quotes (PDF)
Arizona State Coach and Student-Athlete Quotes (PDF)
Postseason Media Guide (PDF)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Owls have arrived in Salt Lake City and are preparing to make a run in their eighth-straight NCAA Tournament. Temple will face Arizona State on Saturday, March 19 at 4:05 p.m. (EST) at the Huntsman Center on the campus of the University of Utah. The game will be televised as part of wrap-around coverage on ESPN2.
Temple (23-8) is a 10 seed while Arizona State (20-10) is a seven seed. This is not the first time the two teams have met in the first round, as it happened just three years ago in 2008.
Arizona State is 3-0 all-time against Temple, but the teams have only met once in the last 23 years. The Owls and the Sun Devils were matched up in the NCAA First Round in 2008 in College Park, Md., and Arizona State came away with a 61-54 win. Prior to that meeting the teams had not faced each other since 1988.
Temple will make its eighth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011, this year as a 10 seed, facing seventh-seeded Arizona State in the first round...The Owls advanced to the NCAA Second Round a year ago as an eight seed, defeating ninth-seeded James Madison 65-53 before losing to eventual national champ Connecticut.
Head coach Tonya Cardoza, the 2010-11 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, has now taken Temple to the NCAA's as an at-large team in all three of her years with the program. Junior Shey Peddy earned A-10 First Team and All-Defensive Team honors this season while junior Kristen McCarthy was named to the A-10 Second Team and senior Qwedia Wallace was selected to the A-10 Third Team.
Temple's top three scorers are about as balanced as it gets, with Peddy at 14.0 ppg followed by Wallace
Temple is 4-9 all-time in its NCAA Tournament games, with a 2-4 record over the last four seasons. The Owls will now have 10 appearances all-time including a current streak of eight straight. Temple is one of just six schools to have both its men's and women's teams represented in the NCAA Tournament for the last four years straight. (Duke, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M and Xavier).
After beginning the season 3-2, Arizona State went on a seven-game win streak which included a 79-66 win over current No. 10 DePaul and a 2-0 start in Pac-10 play. The Sun Devils are 6-2 over their last eight games, and ASU?is led by senior guard Dymond Simon with 13.5 ppg.
TEMPLE'S DANCE TEAMS
This marks Temple's 10th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Owls have advanced to the second round four times, but never to the Sweet 16.
WALLACE SETS 3-POINT RECORD
With 161 three-pointers, Qwedia Wallace holds the all-time career record at Temple. Recent Big 5 Hall of Fame inductee Stacey Smalls held the record previously with 154.
The 2010-11 Big 5 title is Temple's alone as the Owls edged Saint Joseph's 52-49 on Feb. 23, completing a perfect 4-0 sweep of the city series this season. Last year was the first time in six seasons that Temple had NOT won or shared the title, and the year before the Owls shared the honor with Saint Joseph's.
The Big 5 title is Temple's ninth overall and eighth outright since the Big 5 tradition was established for women's basketball in 1979-80.
TEMPLE VS. THE POLLS
Temple is 12-93 all-time against ranked opponents, but has won seven in the last six years. The Owls are 7-23 since the 2004-05 season. Their most recent win vs. a ranked opponent was Feb. 25, 2009 against #13 Xavier.
TOPS IN A-10 DEFENSE
In the conference-only stats, Temple dominated the defensive categories. The Owls finished first in scoring defense (48.4 ppg), field goal pct. defense (.335), 3-pt pct. defense (.265), blocks (5.6 pg), steals (10.9 pg) and turnover margin (+7.3). Temple was second in scoring margin (+21.4 ppg). Shey Peddy finished #1 in steals (3.6 spg) and Victoria Macaulay took third in blocks for league games (1.8 bpg).
LOW TURNOVER RATE
The Owls rank 7th in the nation for fewest turnovers at 13.7 per game. After just once recording fewer than 10 turnovers in 2009-10, Temple has done so seven times this year, with season-lows of seven vs. #7 Ohio State and at GW. In a somewhat unusual statistical feat, Temple has forced its opponents into double-digit turnovers in 112 consecutive games.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Surprisingly for a team that had never been a real three-point threat, this year's squad has proven very capable behind the arc and is averaging 6.6 threes per game (3rd in the A-10). The Owls sank 14 vs. Richmond, 12 vs. #7 Ohio State and made 10 five other times (at #13 UCLA, vs. Rutgers, at Ohio, vs. Akron and at GW).
RECORD-SETTING WIN
Temple's 89-36 win at George Washington on Feb. 16 was impressive from beginning to end. After going down 0-2 the Owls scored 28 unanswered points, eventually winning by 53 to record the second-largest margin of victory in the history of the program.
The Owls achieved a rare feat with six players scoring in double figures. They scored a season-high 52 points in the first half, tied their season high with 26 assists and tied their season low with seven turnovers all while winning their 13th straight game and 20th overall.
PEDDY THEFT
Shey Peddy, who has recorded at least one steal in 30 of Temple's 31 games, ranks second in the A-10 with 3.1 steals per game. Peddy recorded an impressive eight steals in the Owls' win at UMass, marking her career high. Peddy also ranks 15th in NCAA Division I?with her 3.1 spg. At 95 steals for the season, she currently ranks second on the all-time single-season steals list at Temple, needing one more to tie for first.
THREE GRAND
An impressive three Owls (Temple's three leading scorers) reached the 1,000-point milestone this season. Junior Shey Peddy was first, hitting the mark on Dec. 21. Her current 1,288 points include two years playing at DI? Wright State.
Junior Kristen McCarthy was next, reaching the milestone in a win vs. Saint Joseph's on Jan. 19, and has now scored 1,178 points to rank 11th all-time at Temple.
Senior Qwedia Wallace led the Owls with 21 points in a win at UMass on Jan. 26 to hit exactly 1,000 for her career. She was the 19th player in the history of the program to achieve the feat, and now ranks 12th with 1,173 points.
OWLS RISING ABOVE EXPECTATION
After three years of finishing higher than predicted in the A-10, the Owls were picked to finish third this year and once again bettered that standing. Temple was picked fifth in 2009-10 and went on to tie for second.
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Ep. 24: Cross Country/Track & Field Coach Elvis Forde
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Ep. 23: Former Men's Basketball Standout Marc Jackson Speaks on Mental Health
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Ep. 22: Owls Sports Update from David & Amelia
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