Well, is it?
It's certainly been a while since the Temple fans had reason to storm the court.
It's hard to decide between Dionte Christmas and Mark Tyndale for Line of the Game, and to be honest I'm just as tempted to give it to Xavier's Stanley Burrell for being held to only four field goal attempts in the entire game.
But let's go with Tyndale:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. Tyndale |
39 |
7-12 |
5-8 |
3-5 |
2 |
6 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
29 |
22 |
UPDATE, 9:35 p.m.: And naturally, I might be wrong on both counts. With 7:20 to go in the first half, DePaul leads Villanova 34-18 because they've made eight of 12 three-point attempts. Whoa.
And the Line of the Day quite clearly goes to Charlotte's Leemire Goldwire, who did this to St. Joe's in a 70-66 win over the Hawks down south:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L. Goldwire |
36 |
11-23 |
7-9 |
7-15 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
21 |
36 |
But hey, at least Drexel finally won a game.
UPDATE, 11:28 p.m.: A big win for Villanova too, but in a different way. Down 48-35 with 17:21 left in the game, the Wildcats rallied to take a 59-58 lead with 6:19 left and held on from there for a 76-69 win.
It took some defense and it took some rebounds -- the Wildcats had a 40-18 advantage on the boards when all was said and done -- but the result is what matters.
A seriously hurting Scottie Reynolds gave everything he had to put 21 points on the scoreboard. But let's get Dante Cunningham in the spotlight too for his 14 points and 13 rebounds.
Okay, that's enough out of me for the night.
Comments (2)
Can you provide a link to the game story from the DePaul side of things?
Hopefully the game was covered by former Inky ace reporter, Shannon Ryan.
Gary aka Big East Guy
Posted by Big East Guy | January 16, 2008 11:12 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 23:12
So at this point of the season, it appears that the main local schools will probably send 1, but no more than 2 teams to the NCAA Tournament.
Nova is a lock, barring a meltdown.
SJU seems to be on the bubble but needs help and their league is strong.
Temple and LaSalle are middle of the pack teams. Both would need to surge, and have good showings in the league tournament. They both seem to be improving, albeit mildly.
Drexel is subpar. Penn is flat-out awful, in what looks to be an awful Ivy League this season.
I don't know enough about the other close-by D1 programs like Lehigh, Lafayette, and Bucknell to comment. Delaware seems to be improved but not NCAA-worthy.
Kyle
Posted by Kyle | January 17, 2008 8:49 AM
Posted on January 17, 2008 08:49