Women’s Basketball Falls 67-47 at #14/14 Dayton

Sunday, February 24

Dayton, Ohio

2:00 PM

Temple University

12-15, 5-7 A-10

Dayton

24-1, 12-0 A-10

Temple

Dayton

Tyonna Williams led Temple with 13 points

Photo by: Mitchell Leff

Women’s Basketball Falls 67-47 at #14/14 Dayton

2.24.13 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

DAYTON, Ohio – Five Dayton players reached double figures as the #14/14 Flyers (24-1, 12-0) handed Temple women's basketball a 67-47 loss on Sunday afternoon at Dayton Arena. The Owls (12-15, 5-7) had strong starts in both the first half and the second, but were unable to sustain the momentum.

Tyonna Williams led Temple with 13 points, hitting 3-of-5 from behind the arc. Natasha Thames led all players with a career-high 18 rebounds. Victoria Macaulay and Meghan Roxas scored eight points apiece, with Macaulay adding seven boards and three blocks.

Andrea Hoover led Dayton with 14 points and four steals, while four of her other teammates also recorded double-digits in scoring.

Nearly half of Dayton's points were scored on Temple's 26 turnovers. The Flyers finished with a 31-6 edge in points off turnovers, committing only 12 themselves.

The Owls hit three of their first four attempts from the field for a 6-2 lead in the first two minutes, but the strong start came to an abrupt end. Temple was scoreless for the next seven minutes as Dayton used a 13-0 run to lead by nine, 15-6 at 12:28.

Macaulay broke up the run with a jumper at 11:14 which started a 7-1 run that brought Temple back within three, 16-13 at the midway point of the first half.

The Owls had committed six turnovers in the first seven minutes to Dayton's one, but began tightening up on the defensive end, leading to eight more turnovers by the Flyers in the remainder of the half.

Williams hit her second three-pointer of the game with six minutes left in the first half to bring the Owls within two, 20-18, but Temple went on to hit just one field goal the rest of the way.

Dayton regained momentum quickly as Samantha MacKay hit the first five points in a 12-0 run over a four-minute stretch. The run put the Flyers ahead by 14 with two minutes remaining. Temple got some points on the board in last couple minutes with a pair of free throws from Jacquilyn Jackson and a jumper by Thames, but the Owls still trailed 34-22 at the break.

Despite committing just four more turnovers than Dayton in the half, 13-9, the Owls scored just two points off turnovers while the Flyers scored 12. Williams led Temple at the half with eight points, and Thames led all players with 10 first-half rebounds.

Williams and Roxas each hit a trey as the Owls stormed out of the gate in the second half with an 8-2 run. The three by Roxas put Temple within six, 36-30 in just a little over two minutes of action.

The game went back and forth for a stretch, and Roxas hit her second in a row from behind the arc to cut the margin to five. Temple was again within five, 44-39 on a Sally Kabengano jumper at 12:14, but over the next two minutes the Flyers increased their lead back to 10.

Temple got within nine on two more occasions, but after the second time, the Flyers used an 8-0 run to put the game out of reach.

With six minutes left, three Temple players had four fouls apiece. The damage was limited by Dayton's poor free-throw shooting (1-of-7 in the second half), but the Flyers shot 45 percent from the field in the second half to make up the difference.

Temple will play its final road game of the regular season at Butler on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7:00 p.m. Next Sunday, March 3, the Owls will celebrate Senior Day at home against Fordham at 2:00 p.m.