Men's Basketball Falls to Clemson at the Shriners Children's Charleston Classic

Thursday, November 18

Charleston, S.C.

4/4:30 P.M.

Temple University

1-2,0-0AAC

Clemson

4-0,0-0ACC

Clemson

Temple

Photo by: Chris Cook

Men's Basketball Falls to Clemson at the Shriners Children's Charleston Classic

11.18.21 | Men's Basketball

Box Score Postgame Press Conference

CHARLESTON, S.C. – A combination of cold-shooting by Temple (1-2) and a hot-shooting from Clemson lifted the Tigers (4-0) to a 75-58 win over the Owls in opening round play of the Shriners Children's Charleston Classic Thursday evening at TD Arena.

Tai Strickland scored a career-high 16 points with Damian Dunn adding 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds for the Owls. Nick Honor was perfect from the field (7-7, 4-4 3pt) in tallying a game-high 19 points to pace the Tigers.

Clemson shot a sizzling 54.55 percent (30-55) from the field and 52.4 percent (11-21) from long range compared to Temple's 35.8 percent (19-53) overall and 20 percent (4-20) from deep.

Recapping the Game

First Half

Khalif Battle started off the game with a steal and dunk on the first possession to set the tone of what would be aggressive play by both teams.
Jeremiah Williams, who was questionable due to an injury suffered in the USC game, started the game, and scored four of the Owls first 10 points.
Honor scored 14 of his team's first 16 with his consecutive threes giving the Tigers an early 16-13 lead.
After Clemson extended its lead to 23-18, Strickland drained back-to-back three-pointers to put the Owls back ahead, 24-23, with just under eight minutes to play in the half.
The Tigers responded with a 15-2 run to close out the half, taking a 38-26 advantage into the locker room.
Clemson held Temple scoreless over the final 6:16 of the period, while scoring the final 10 points.

Second Half

Clemson picked up right where it left off. Scoring 15 of the first 18 points of the half to take a commanding 53-30 lead with 15 minutes remaining.
The Owls were unable to cut into the deficit as the team remained cold from the field while the Tigers continued their hot shooting.
Unlike the previous game against USC, Temple never was able to cut the lead below 20 points the remainder of the contest.

Statistically Speaking

Battle, the Owls' leading scorer entering the contest (24.0 ppg), was held to four points on two-of-seven shooting.
Zach Hicks did not score but led Temple with three assists.
Nick Jourdain had a career-high five blocks while pulling down four rebounds.

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