Berry Registers Career-High 24 in Road Loss at North Texas

Wednesday, January 22

Denton, Texas

8:00 P.M.

Temple University

12-7,4-2AAC

North Texas

14-4,5-1AAC

Temple

North Texas

Berry Registers Career-High 24 in Road Loss at North Texas

1.22.25 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

DENTON, Texas - Sophomore Quante Berry registered a career-high 24 points but the Temple University men's basketball team dropped a hard-fought road decision at North Texas, 76-67. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Owls, who fall to 12-7 on the season and 4-2 in American Athletic Conference play.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The first half was a low-scoring 20 minutes for both sides, and a late spurt by the Mean Green put the home team on top, 27-26, at intermission.
Sophomore Zion Stanford was a bright spot offensively off the bench, scoring a team-high 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting.
A layup by Stanford gave the Owls their largest lead of the game at 18-10, before UNT finished the half on a 17-9 run.
Berry briefly gave Temple a lead to start the second half, and his driving basket knotted the score at 32-32 with 18:01 to go.
UNT would score the next 11 points to take control of the game, with Atin Wright tallying five during the run.
The Owls continued to fight, with a three-point play by Jamal Mashburn Jr. pulling the visitors to within four at 48-44.
Temple cut the North Texas lead to four five times over a seven-minute stretch but could not get over the hump as the Mean Green hit a number of key buckets to fend the Owls off.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

Berry's 24 points eclipse his prior career high of 19, set last week against No. 18 Memphis.
Stanford closed with 17 points and added six rebounds for the Owls. Mashburn Jr. had 16 points but struggled from the floor, connecting on just 5-of-23 attempts.
North Texas had a 42-28 advantage in points in the paint, and also became just the fourth team this season to have its bench outscore Temple's reserves (38-21).
UNT's Brenen Lorient was a key reason for both of those advantages, as he scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds off the bench.

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