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Dunphy Named NABC District Coach of the Year; DeCosey Selected to First Team
3.25.16 | Men's Basketball
PHILADELPHIA - Temple University men's basketball head coach Fran Dunphy has been named the NABC District 25 Coach of the Year while senior guard Quenton DeCosey earned NABC First Team All-District honors.
Picked sixth in the conference's preseason coaches' poll, Dunphy guided his Temple Owls to its eighth 20-win season is his 10-year tenure and their third regular season conference championship during that span. Â The Cherry and White finished the season with a 21-12 overall record and 14-4 conference mark.
Temple earned an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament as the #10-seed in the South Region. Â The Owls fell to #7-seed Iowa in overtime at the buzzer. It was the seventh time in the last nine seasons that Temple has advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Only 10 teams have made more appearances in the Big Dance than the Cherry and White in that time frame. Â Â
Temple defeated three ranked opponents in the regular season, #22/23 Cincinnati, #23/24 UConn and #8 SMU, for the first time since 1999-2000. Â The win over SMU was the seventh time in the last eight seasons that the Owls have knocked off a Top 10 opponent.
Dunphy, who passed former Temple coach John Chaney (516 wins) to become the all-time winningest coach in Big 5 history (523 wins), is also one of only eight coaches in the last 20 years to win regular season championships from three different conferences. Â Dunphy, who won his titles in the Ivy League, Atlantic 10 and American, is joined on the list by Mike Davis (Big Ten, Conference USA, SWAC), Ben Howland (Big Sky, Big East, Pac-12), Jim Larranaga (MAC, Colonial, ACC), Thad Matta (Horizon, Atlantic 10, Big Ten), Rick Pitino (Conference USA, Big East, American), Bill Self (WAC, Big Ten, Big 12) and Bruce Weber (MVC, Big Ten, Big 12).
Besides the NABC honor, which is his third during his Temple tenure, Dunphy has earned Conference Coach of the Year twice from the American Athletic Conference (2015, 2016) and the Atlantic 10 Conference, and four times from the Big 5.
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DeCosey, who led Temple in scoring (15.9 ppg) and steals (41), finished his career with 1,513 career points to rank 16th on the Owls' all-time list. He also ranked second on the team in rebounding (6.0 rpg) and assists (2.6 apg) while being the only player to start all 33 games for the 21-12 American Athletic Conference regular season champions. Â Â
A First Team All-American Athletic Conference honoree, DeCosey, who scored a game-high 26 points in Temple's 72-70 overtime loss to Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, also grabbed 519 rebounds, dished 251 assists, connected on 166 three-pointers and made 108 steals in his stellar career.
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Picked sixth in the conference's preseason coaches' poll, Dunphy guided his Temple Owls to its eighth 20-win season is his 10-year tenure and their third regular season conference championship during that span. Â The Cherry and White finished the season with a 21-12 overall record and 14-4 conference mark.
Temple earned an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament as the #10-seed in the South Region. Â The Owls fell to #7-seed Iowa in overtime at the buzzer. It was the seventh time in the last nine seasons that Temple has advanced to the NCAA Tournament. Only 10 teams have made more appearances in the Big Dance than the Cherry and White in that time frame. Â Â
Temple defeated three ranked opponents in the regular season, #22/23 Cincinnati, #23/24 UConn and #8 SMU, for the first time since 1999-2000. Â The win over SMU was the seventh time in the last eight seasons that the Owls have knocked off a Top 10 opponent.
Dunphy, who passed former Temple coach John Chaney (516 wins) to become the all-time winningest coach in Big 5 history (523 wins), is also one of only eight coaches in the last 20 years to win regular season championships from three different conferences. Â Dunphy, who won his titles in the Ivy League, Atlantic 10 and American, is joined on the list by Mike Davis (Big Ten, Conference USA, SWAC), Ben Howland (Big Sky, Big East, Pac-12), Jim Larranaga (MAC, Colonial, ACC), Thad Matta (Horizon, Atlantic 10, Big Ten), Rick Pitino (Conference USA, Big East, American), Bill Self (WAC, Big Ten, Big 12) and Bruce Weber (MVC, Big Ten, Big 12).
Besides the NABC honor, which is his third during his Temple tenure, Dunphy has earned Conference Coach of the Year twice from the American Athletic Conference (2015, 2016) and the Atlantic 10 Conference, and four times from the Big 5.
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DeCosey, who led Temple in scoring (15.9 ppg) and steals (41), finished his career with 1,513 career points to rank 16th on the Owls' all-time list. He also ranked second on the team in rebounding (6.0 rpg) and assists (2.6 apg) while being the only player to start all 33 games for the 21-12 American Athletic Conference regular season champions. Â Â
A First Team All-American Athletic Conference honoree, DeCosey, who scored a game-high 26 points in Temple's 72-70 overtime loss to Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, also grabbed 519 rebounds, dished 251 assists, connected on 166 three-pointers and made 108 steals in his stellar career.
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