Temple University Athletics
Saturday, March 8
Tampa, FL
2:00 PM
Temple University
at
USF
Photo by: Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University
Men's Basketball Plays at USF on Saturday in Final Regular Season Game
3.6.14 | Men's Basketball
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PHILADELPHIA - For its final regular season game, Temple men's basketball will head south to USF for a 2:00 p.m. match-up on Saturday, March 8 on ESPNews. Both teams currently stand with UCF in a three-way tie for eighth in the American Athletic Conference, so the contest will have seeding implications for next week's conference tournament in Memphis.
USF is 12-18 overall and 3-14 in The American, while Temple stands at 8-21 overall and also 3-14 in league play.
The audio broadcast of Saturday's game will be carried live by 97.5 The Fanatic. Fans can also listen online through the above link.
Headlines:
• Temple is playing the fifth-toughest schedule in NCAA Division I according to the ESPN RPI rankings.
• Temple is one of only six teams in Division I to have four players averaging 13 or more points per game.
• 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.
• On his Senior Night March 4, Dalton Pepper led all scorers with 26 points in an 86-78 overtime win vs. UCF.
• Pepper tops the team in scoring (17.5 ppg, 4th AAC), three-pointers (2.8 pg, T-1st AAC), and minutes played (37.3 mpg, 1st AAC).
• Three players scored 20+ points for TU in two of the last four games (Memphis, UCF); a feat that had previously not occurred since 2008.
• Quenton DeCosey (14.9 ppg, 10th AAC) scored in double figures in the first 17 games of the season and has done so in 25 of 29 overall.
• Anthony Lee leads the AAC in rebounds (8.7 rpg) and has posted 11 double-doubles this season, most recently with 20 points and a game-high 10 rebounds in the win vs. UCF.
• Will Cummings is second on the team and fifth in the league with 16.6 ppg, and has scored in double figures in 25 of 27 games played.
• The match-up earlier this season on Jan. 9 in Philadelphia saw USF use a late run to defeat the Owls, 82-75.
• The first of the series' three meetings was two years ago in the NCAA Second Round at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The Bulls won by a score of 58-44 after trailing Temple 19-15 at halftime.
• USF has lost seven straight games; two of those by a single point (vs. UCF and at Rutgers).
• Senior forward Victor Rudd, who scored 17 points against the Owls in 2012, leads the Bulls with 16.0 ppg and 6.8 rpg.
PHILADELPHIA - For its final regular season game, Temple men's basketball will head south to USF for a 2:00 p.m. match-up on Saturday, March 8 on ESPNews. Both teams currently stand with UCF in a three-way tie for eighth in the American Athletic Conference, so the contest will have seeding implications for next week's conference tournament in Memphis.
USF is 12-18 overall and 3-14 in The American, while Temple stands at 8-21 overall and also 3-14 in league play.
The audio broadcast of Saturday's game will be carried live by 97.5 The Fanatic. Fans can also listen online through the above link.
Headlines:
• Temple is playing the fifth-toughest schedule in NCAA Division I according to the ESPN RPI rankings.
• Temple is one of only six teams in Division I to have four players averaging 13 or more points per game.
• 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.
• On his Senior Night March 4, Dalton Pepper led all scorers with 26 points in an 86-78 overtime win vs. UCF.
• Pepper tops the team in scoring (17.5 ppg, 4th AAC), three-pointers (2.8 pg, T-1st AAC), and minutes played (37.3 mpg, 1st AAC).
• Three players scored 20+ points for TU in two of the last four games (Memphis, UCF); a feat that had previously not occurred since 2008.
• Quenton DeCosey (14.9 ppg, 10th AAC) scored in double figures in the first 17 games of the season and has done so in 25 of 29 overall.
• Anthony Lee leads the AAC in rebounds (8.7 rpg) and has posted 11 double-doubles this season, most recently with 20 points and a game-high 10 rebounds in the win vs. UCF.
• Will Cummings is second on the team and fifth in the league with 16.6 ppg, and has scored in double figures in 25 of 27 games played.
• The match-up earlier this season on Jan. 9 in Philadelphia saw USF use a late run to defeat the Owls, 82-75.
• The first of the series' three meetings was two years ago in the NCAA Second Round at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. The Bulls won by a score of 58-44 after trailing Temple 19-15 at halftime.
• USF has lost seven straight games; two of those by a single point (vs. UCF and at Rutgers).
• Senior forward Victor Rudd, who scored 17 points against the Owls in 2012, leads the Bulls with 16.0 ppg and 6.8 rpg.
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