Temple University Athletics
Men's Basketball
Needle, Seth
Seth Needle
- Title:
- Special Assistant to the Head Coach
- Email:
- seth.needle@temple.edu
Seth Needle enters his third season on the Temple men's basketball staff in 2025-26. He was promoted to his current role as special assistant to the head coach in July 2025 after spending the previous two seasons as a graduate assistant.
The Owls made significant progress in the second season under Fisher's staff, improving their regular-season win total by five and adding four additional victories in AAC play. Temple's offense shined, setting a new program record of 78.8 points per game. Defending the Liacouras Center with pride, the Owls boasted a 12-2 record on North Broad Street, defeating No. 18 Memphis and North Texas. Temple became the only AAC team to beat the top two seeded conference teams in the regular season.
In 2023-24, Temple became the first team in American Athletic Conference history to win four games in four days at the conference tournament and helped guide Temple to its first appearance in the AAC championship game. TU finished second in program history with 296 made three-pointers and were 31st nationally with just 9.9 turnovers per game. The Owls also came away with 7.4 steals an outing, a jump of more than two per game from the previous season and their highest total since 2018-19.
A former head basketball manager at the University of South Carolina under Frank Martin and Lamont Paris, Needle earned a bachelor's degree in sport management from the university in 2023.
A native of Merion Station, Pennsylvania, Needle graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2019. As a member of the Aces' basketball team, he helped the squad compile a 25-4 record his senior year.
The Owls made significant progress in the second season under Fisher's staff, improving their regular-season win total by five and adding four additional victories in AAC play. Temple's offense shined, setting a new program record of 78.8 points per game. Defending the Liacouras Center with pride, the Owls boasted a 12-2 record on North Broad Street, defeating No. 18 Memphis and North Texas. Temple became the only AAC team to beat the top two seeded conference teams in the regular season.
In 2023-24, Temple became the first team in American Athletic Conference history to win four games in four days at the conference tournament and helped guide Temple to its first appearance in the AAC championship game. TU finished second in program history with 296 made three-pointers and were 31st nationally with just 9.9 turnovers per game. The Owls also came away with 7.4 steals an outing, a jump of more than two per game from the previous season and their highest total since 2018-19.
A former head basketball manager at the University of South Carolina under Frank Martin and Lamont Paris, Needle earned a bachelor's degree in sport management from the university in 2023.
A native of Merion Station, Pennsylvania, Needle graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2019. As a member of the Aces' basketball team, he helped the squad compile a 25-4 record his senior year.
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