St. Joseph's-Temple postgame (Soft Pretzel Logic)

St. Joseph's-Temple postgame

ATLANTIC CITY -- Temple 69, St. Joe's 64.

I can't believe it.

Somehow in that locker room at halftime, Temple was completely transformed. The Owls team that exploded out of the locker room on a 14-2 run was the polar opposite of what we saw in the first 20 minutes.

And they kept coming.

The passes were all there, the threes were flying in. St. Joe's kept coming, and for quite a while there it looked like Temple was going to slip and go tumbling back down the mountain.

But somehow, it was St. Joe's that couldn't quite get to the top. The Hawks missed passes, missed shots, and then everyone seemed to realize all at once that it wasn't going to happen.

As the final seconds slowly ticked away and the Temple students got ready to rush the court, the noise started coming from the very upper reaches of Boardwalk Hall.

It was an old noise, the kind of noise you hear in movies when a ghost is stirring in the attic, and as I looked around I saw pockets of Temple fans where I thought I had seen St. Joe's fans earlier.

"Let's go dancing!" the Temple students chanted during the game's last timeout. And so they will.

Stats and more to come.

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Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on March 15, 2008 8:04 PM | Permalink

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drbobf:

I graduated from Temple in 1966. Back in those days we had a cheer at the end of the Temple-St. Joe's basketball games: THE HAWK IS DEAD! Forty-two years later the same can still be said, along with: GO OWLS!

Posted by drbobf | March 15, 2008 10:19 PM

Posted on March 15, 2008 22:19

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