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Men's Basketball Travels to SMU for Thursday Game on ESPNews
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PHILADELPHIA - Two new American Athletic Conference opponents await Temple men's basketball on the road this weekend, as the Owls travel to SMU and Houston. Temple will face SMU on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on ESPNews before going on to Houston for a 2:00 p.m. (EST) game on Sunday, Feb. 9, also on ESPNews.
Headlines
• Temple and SMU are meeting for the third time, but the first since the 1955-56 season when the Owls defeated the Mustangs 90-81 in the NCAA Final Four third-place game.
• Both head coaches have played three games against the other team, but neither have done so while with their current school.
• The Mustangs are led by redshirt sophomore guard Nic Moore with 13.9 ppg and redshirt sophomore forward Markus Kennedy with 12.1 ppg to go with a team-best 7.4 rpg.
• Larry Brown, a Hall of Fame Coach who guided the Philadelphia 76ers for six seasons, is in his second season as SMU's head coach.
• SMU leads The American in field goal percentage (.491) and field goal percentage defense (.372), as well as in rebounding margin (+7.4).
• Temple is currently the only team in Division I to have four players averaging 14 or more points per game.
• Dalton Pepper tops the team in scoring (17.7 ppg, 4th AAC), three-pointers (3.0 pg, 1st AAC) and 3-pt percentage (.421, 8th).
• Pepper scored a career-high 33 points vs. #15/16 Cincinnati, hitting eight treys and scoring 27 points in a huge second-half run for the Owls.
• Will Cummings is second on the team and fifth in the league with 16.9 ppg, and has scored in double figures in 16 of 18 games played.
• Cummings has been the game's leading scorer for two contests in a row (21 points in win vs. Rutgers, 24 vs. #9/9 Villanova).
• Anthony Lee (14.1 ppg) leads the conference in rebounding (9.1 rpg), and has nine double-doubles on the season.
• The Owls' top four scorers, who have accounted for 83 percent of the team's points, produced just 26 percent of last year's total points.
• Quenton DeCosey (15.8 ppg, 8th AAC) scored in double figures in the first 18 games of the season before finishing with eight vs. Cincinnati.
PHILADELPHIA - Two new American Athletic Conference opponents await Temple men's basketball on the road this weekend, as the Owls travel to SMU and Houston. Temple will face SMU on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on ESPNews before going on to Houston for a 2:00 p.m. (EST) game on Sunday, Feb. 9, also on ESPNews.
Headlines
• Temple and SMU are meeting for the third time, but the first since the 1955-56 season when the Owls defeated the Mustangs 90-81 in the NCAA Final Four third-place game.
• Both head coaches have played three games against the other team, but neither have done so while with their current school.
• The Mustangs are led by redshirt sophomore guard Nic Moore with 13.9 ppg and redshirt sophomore forward Markus Kennedy with 12.1 ppg to go with a team-best 7.4 rpg.
• Larry Brown, a Hall of Fame Coach who guided the Philadelphia 76ers for six seasons, is in his second season as SMU's head coach.
• SMU leads The American in field goal percentage (.491) and field goal percentage defense (.372), as well as in rebounding margin (+7.4).
• Temple is currently the only team in Division I to have four players averaging 14 or more points per game.
• Dalton Pepper tops the team in scoring (17.7 ppg, 4th AAC), three-pointers (3.0 pg, 1st AAC) and 3-pt percentage (.421, 8th).
• Pepper scored a career-high 33 points vs. #15/16 Cincinnati, hitting eight treys and scoring 27 points in a huge second-half run for the Owls.
• Will Cummings is second on the team and fifth in the league with 16.9 ppg, and has scored in double figures in 16 of 18 games played.
• Cummings has been the game's leading scorer for two contests in a row (21 points in win vs. Rutgers, 24 vs. #9/9 Villanova).
• Anthony Lee (14.1 ppg) leads the conference in rebounding (9.1 rpg), and has nine double-doubles on the season.
• The Owls' top four scorers, who have accounted for 83 percent of the team's points, produced just 26 percent of last year's total points.
• Quenton DeCosey (15.8 ppg, 8th AAC) scored in double figures in the first 18 games of the season before finishing with eight vs. Cincinnati.
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