We have tip-off times for the first round, and let's start with the local games. All times Eastern:
Thursday, March 20
5. Michigan State vs. 12. Temple, 12:30 p.m.
Friday, March 21
6. Oklahoma vs. 11 St. Joseph's, approx. 7:10 p.m.
5. Clemson vs. 12. Villanova, approx. 9:50 p.m.
Isn't that the second year in a row the Wildcats have been put in the last Friday night game?
Also, you can print your own bracket by clicking here.
After the jump, the full schedule.
Okay, I'm back in Philadelphia now, and as this night finally comes to an end, here's all the video and audio from the championship game.
Video
Temple, in which Mark Tyndale talks about just what it means for Temple to be back in the NCAA Tournament.
St. Joseph's, in which Phil Martelli tells fans to "pray your ass off for us, please" that his team gets an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament
Audio
Temple: Fran Dunphy, Mark Tyndale and Dionte Christmas
St. Joseph's: Phil Martelli, Pat Calathes and Ahmad Nivins
Your video highlight is presented in honor of Stormingthefloor.com, because the Temple fans delivered a pretty good one at the final buzzer, and also in honor of the guy in the Flyers jersey who came up to me on the train back to Philadelphia and said he reads the blog. Thanks for that.
To close things out, I'd like to throw this out there. I've watched Fran Dunphy's teams for six years now, and I've talked to a lot of people who've seen him coach for much longer.
I have a hard time believing he's ever done a better job of coaching a game than he did tonight. Temple simply owned the second half, and Dunphy deserves full credit for getting the Owls to step up in the second half and take things over.
And as Tyndale alluded to in his remarks in the video, the fact that Temple is back in the NCAA Tournament is an important thing. It's been a while since Temple has been front and center like this, and I'm willing to bet that even St. Joe's fans will begrudge the Owls some time in the spotlight.
ATLANTIC CITY -- As I wait for a train back to Philadelphia, here's a quick rundown of the game stats:
St. Joe's shot 23-for-54 from the field (42.6%), including 5-for-21 from three-point range (23.8%) and 18-for-33 from two-point range (54.5%), and a perfect 13-for-13 from the free throw line (100.0%). Twelve offensive rebounds, 20 defensive rebounds, 13 assists 13 turnovers, three blocks, three steals and 20 fouls committed.
That adds up to 61 possessions and 1.054 points per possession.
Ahmad Nivins led St. Joe's with 18 points on 6-for-11 shooting, though he was only 1-for-3 with six points in the second half. Nivins also pulled down 10 rebounds, of which six were on offense.
Temple shot 21-for-48 from the field (43.8%), including 9-for-18 from three-point range (50.%) and 12-for-30 from two-point range (40.0%), and 18-for-27 from the free throw line. Eleven offensive rebounds, 18 defensive rebounds, 13 assists, 12 turnovers, four blocks, seven steals and 12 fouls committed.
That adds up to 61 possessions and 1.133 points per possession.
Of note, St. Joe's recorded seven assists and four turnovers in the first half, followed by six assists and nine turnovers in the second half. Temple recorded four assists and eight turnovers in the first half, followed by nine assists and four turnovers in the second half.
Line of the game goes to the game's high scorer and the tournament's most outstanding player, Dionte Christmas:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Christmas |
40 |
8-14 |
1-1 |
5-8 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
21 |
22 |
The all-tournament team was Christmas and Mark Tyndale of Temple, Nivins and Pat Calathes of St. Joe's, and Leemire Goldwire of Charlotte.
I voted for Tyndale, Christmas, Calathes, Goldwire and Chris Clark, with Clark as most outstanding player.
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.
ATLANTIC CITY -- It's 32-25 St. Joe's after 20 minutes, and it would be a 10-point game if not for a three-pointer with five seconds to go in the half.
The Hawks shot 13-for-30 from the field (43.3%), including 2-for-9 from three-point range (22.2%) and 11-for-21 from two-point range (52.4%), and 4-for-4 from the foul line (100.0%). Seven offensive rebounds, 10 defensive rebounds, seven assists, four turnovers, two blocks, one steal and six fouls committed.
That adds up to 29 possessions and 1.123 points per possession.
Ahmad Nivins leads St. Joe's with an impressive 12 points on 5-for-8 shooting.
The Owls shot 7-for-25 from the field, including 5-for-10 from three-point range (50.0%) and 2-for-15 from two-point range (13.3%), and 6-for-8 from the free throw line (75.0%). Eight offensive rebounds, nine defensive rebounds, four assists, eight turnovers, three blocks,t wo steals and six fouls committed.
That adds up to 29 possessions and 0.877 points per possession.
Dionte Christmas leads Temple with 12 points on 4-for-8 shooting, including 3-for-5 from beyond the arc.
But more importantly, Temple just looks nervous. The passing isn't as crisp as it's been the last few games and the players haven't been as aggressive with the ball. That two-point field goal percentage is very telling. So was Ryan Brooks' shot clock violation with 30 seconds in the half, when he just held the ball before realizing he was out of time.
Meanwhile, St. Joe's looks calm and collected, and like a team that knows exactly what it's doing here.
If that keeps up, it will decide the game way more than any number could.
ATLANTIC CITY -- In January, it was St. Joe's by a point on Temple's floor. Two weeks ago, it was Temple by a point at a pro-St. Joe's Palestra. Both games were pulsating, nerve-wracking affairs that went down to the very last shot.
Frankly, they deserved a chance to decide this thing once and for all. Tonight, they -- and we -- get it.
The setting is Boardwalk Hall, an arena whose roof is twice as high as the Palestra's but with a buzz just as palpable. To the winner goes the ultimate jackpot: a berth in the NCAA Tournament. It would be the Hawks' first since 2004, and the Owls' first since 2001.
For Temple, the stakes are even higher. Win and the big prize is theirs; lose and all those chips they've piled up in recent weeks vanish in an instant.
St. Joe's, though, might not need to play another hand. The signature wins are there, twice over Xavier and a blowout of Villanova. With chips like that in their pocket, the Hawks can probably afford to stay out of Temple's double-or-nothing game.
But this is a rivalry, and not just any rivalry. It's two schools and two coaches with decades worth of bonds between them, of intense battles under the Big 5's brightest lights.
You don't just walk away from that, do you?
So come on over to the table, Fran Dunphy and Phil Martelli. Time for another round. Forty more minutes of motion offense and swarming defense. Of ball screens, flares to the wing, hard drives to the basket and equally hard blocks in the lane.
It's time, once and for all, to see who has the strongest hand.
Ante up, gentlemen.
Here are the opening hands:
Temple
F Sr 13 Mark Tyndale
F Fr 24 Lavoy Allen
C Jr 41 Sergio Olmos
G So 10 Luis Guzman
G Jr 22 Dionte Christmas
St. Joseph's
F Sr 12 Pat Calathes
F Sr 52 Rob Ferguson
C Jr 34 Ahmad Nivins
G Jr 0 Tasheed Carr
G So 13 Darrin Govens
The game's on ESPN; watch it and leave your thoughts here. I'll be back at halftime.
ATLANTIC CITY -- It wasn't pretty, but that doesn't matter now...
Charlotte shot 16-for-59 from the field (27.1%), including 6-for-32 from three-point range (18.8%) and 10-for-27 from two-point range (37.0%), and 7-for-12 from the free throw line (58.3%). Eight offensive rebounds, 20 defensive rebounds, nine assists, ten turnovers, no blocks, eight steals and 20 fouls committed.
That adds up to 66 possessions and 0.679 points per possession.
Leemire Goldwire led the 49ers in his final collegiate game with 18 points on 5-for-18 shooting, including 4-for-14 from three-point range.
Temple shot 19-for-47 from the field (40.4%), including 6-for-25 from three-point range (24.0%) and 13-for-22 from two-point range (59.1%), and 16-for-23 from two-point range (69.6%). A whopping 12 offensive and 36 defensive rebounds, 12 assists, 19 turnovers, five blocks, five steals and 17 fouls committed.
That adds up to 65 possessions and 0.924 points per possession.
Line of the game is, once again, no contest. Mark Tyndale was dominant tonight, and if he does it again tomorrow he might just take the Big 5 Player of the Year award to the NCAA Tournament.
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. Tyndale |
27 |
7-11 |
4-8 |
2-3 |
2 |
13 |
15 |
4 |
2 |
8 |
0 |
3 |
25 |
20 |
Philadelphia's 30-year streak of sending teams to the NCAA Tournament just turned 31.
With Temple's 60-45 win over Charlotte, we can now be sure of at least one local representative in this year's field of 65.
It'll be Temple-St. Joe's in the championship game tomorrow. And believe it or not, it will be the first time ever that the Owls and Hawks have met in the final.
Stats and more from this game soon.
Amazing how far we've come in the last few days isn't it?
ATLANTIC CITY -- Even though both teams made fewer than 10 field goals each, Temple seemed pretty well in control of things in taking a 28-19 lead over Charlotte into halftime.
The 49ers shot 7-for-25 (28.0%) from the field, including 3-for-16 from three-point range (18.8%) and 4-for-9 from two-point range (44.4%), and 2-for-4 from the free throw line (50.0%). Two offensive rebounds, 10 defensive rebounds, five assists, five turnovers, no blocks, five steals and seven fouls committed.
That adds up to 30 possessions and 0.638 points per possession.
The Owls shot 9-for-24 from the field (37.5%), including 4-for-15 from three-point range (26.7%) and 5-for-9 from two-point range (55.6%), and 6-for-10 from the free throw line (60.0%). Eight offensive rebounds, 17 defensive rebounds, seven assists, nine turnovers, two blocks, three steals and seven fouls committed.
Chris Clark and Mark Tyndale tied for game-highs in the half with nine points; Leemire Goldwire led Charlotte with eight points on 2-for-8 shooting, all from beyond the arc.
ATLANTIC CITY -- Chris Clark buries an open three from the left corner to make it 19-8 Temple with 9:15 to go in the first half, and Bobby Lutz calls timeout. The Owls are looking good so far and Charlotte seems a step behind, but then again, we saw this last night, too...
ATLANTIC CITY -- Well, it's a sign of how many St. Joe's fans were here that the building is a lot emptier than it was when I headed to the press room. But there are still plenty of Temple fans here, including another big student section:
Charlotte's fans are literally right behind me:
They are suitably annoying, to put it one way.
Starting lineups:
Charlotte
G So 3 Dijuan Harris
G Sr 12 Leemire Goldwire
F Jr 2 Charlie Coley
F Jr 15 Lamont Mack
F Fr 21 An'Juan Wilderness
Temple
G So 10 Luis Guzman
G Sr 13 Mark Tyndale
G Jr 22 Dionte Christmas
F Fr 24 Lavoy Allen
C Jr 41 Sergio Olmos
Yeah, it's late, but look what I found: video highlights of tonight's games.
Darnell Harris' dunk:
Chris Clark's multi-banked three to make it 80-75 for Temple:
And the frantic ending to Charl=otte (which takes a few minutes of real time):
Well, Temple certainly took care of business tonight.
The Owls ended the game on an 11-0 run to knock off La Salle, 84-75, and advance to the 9 p.m. semifinal tomorrow.
The Explorers shot 26-for-57 from the field (45.6%), including 8-for-25 from three-point range (32.0%) and 18-for-32 from two-point range (56.3%), and 15-for-20 from the free throw line (75.0%). Nine offensive rebounds, 20 defensive rebounds, 21 assists, 13 turnovers, no blocks, seven steals and 21 fouls committed.
That adds up to 70 possessions and 1.074 points per possession.
Temple shot 27-for-49 from the field (55.1%), including 8-for-24 from three-point range (33.3%) and 19-for-25 from two-point range (76.0%), and 22-for-31 from the free throw line (71.0%). Four offensive rebounds, 24 defensive rebounds, 16 assists, 12 turnovers, two blocks, seven steals and 19 fouls committed.
That adds up to 71 possessions and 1.189 points per possession. Nice to see a game with such high offensive efficiency from both sides.
Rodney Green led La Salle with 20 points on 8-for-14 shooting; he also dished out seven assists. Darnell Harris scored 18, but was only 3-for-10 from three-point range.
Dionte Christmas led all scorers with 29 points, shooting 8-for-15 from the field and 11-for-14 from the free throw line. He also had five rebounds, four assists and two steals.
But Line of the Game goes to a guy on Temple who once again showed tonight how much he wants to win in his final year on North Broad Street: Mark Tyndale.
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. Tyndale |
36 |
4-8 |
5-8 |
1-4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
14 |
Temple made 27 of 49 field goal attempts (55.1%)
An open three from the left corner by Rodney Green gives the Explorers their first lead of the night, 62-61, with 9:01 left.
And now there's a loose ball on the court and players are flying all over the place for it, and we're very much playing a Big 5 game here in Atlantic City.
Make it 63-61 after a Green free throw with 8:23 on the clock.
And Chris Clark takes the lead back for Temple with a three to make it 64-63 with 7:30 left.
Then Kimmani Barrett makes it 65-64, and back and forth we go. How about a three by Dionte Christmas from the left side at 7:02. 67-65 Owls.
There's another three by Darnell Harris, and after a Temple turnover we go to a media timeout with the Owls only up 59-57 with 10:18 left.
And Rodney Green ties the game on a layup with 9:37 to play. Well now.
Ruben Guillandeaux hits a three to cut Temple's lead to 59-54, and with 11:26 on the clock Fran Dunphy decides to take a timeout and settle things down.
It's the first media timeout of the second half, and Temple has a 53-41 lead with 15:05 left in the game. Sergio Olmos has eight of the Owls' 10 points since intermission.
Veteran Temple sports information director Al Shrier was just awarded the Bob Vetrone media award from the Atlantic 10, yet another honor for a guy who's been at it for North Broad Street for a lot longer than a lot of us have been alive.
Temple used another quick run to pull away from La Salle and take a 43-35 lead into the locker room.
The Explorers shot 13-for-32 from the field (40.6%), including 3-for-10 from three-point range (30.0%) and 10-for-22 from two-point range (45.5%), and 6-for-9 from the free throw line (66.7%). Seven offensive rebounds, 10 defensive rebounds, 10 assists, eight turnovers, no blocks, three steals and eight fouls committed.
That adds up to 37 possessions and 0.947 points per possession.
The Owls shot 15-for-27 from the field (55.6%), including 3-for-13 from three-point range (23.1%) and 12-for-14 from two-point range (85.7%), and 10-for-12 from the free throw line (83.3%). One offensive rebound, 14 defensive rebounds, eight assists, six turnovers, two blocks, six steals and nine fouls committed.
That adds up to 37 possessions and 1.153 points per possession.
Dionte Christmas leads all scorers with 19 points on 7-for-10 shooting, while Mark Tyndale added 11. Rodney Geren and Darnell Harris have 10 each for La Salle.
It only made the score 19-13 Temple, and Mark Tyndale answered it right away with a three, but Darnell Harris just threw down a two-handed tomahawk slam on a breakaway. Wow.
I hope there's a picture of that somewhere later tonight.
Dionte Christmas stole the ball from Paul Johnson and raced away for a layup, and with only 2:15 gone in the game John Giannini had seen enough to call timeout. Good start for the Owls.
Well, we've got a real buzz in the building for the first time this tournament. It's a Big 5 showdown between 2-seed Temple and 7-seed La Salle, and the crowd is without question the biggest yet this year at Boardwalk Hall.
As I said in the previous post, Temple's got a big student section tonight:
La Salle's is also pretty strong, and it's growing as I write this:
Here are the starting lineups:
La Salle
F Fr 20 Jerrell Williams
F Jr 31 Paul Johnson
C So 20 Yves Mekongo Mbala
G So 10 Rodney Green
G Sr 11 Darnell Harris
Temple
F Sr 13 Mark Tyndale
F Fr 24 Lavoy Allen
C Jr 41 Sergio Olmos
G So 10 Luis Guzman
G Jr 22 Dionte Christmas
The game's on Comcast SportsNet, so watch it and leave your thoughts here on the blog.
Away we go...
Postgame audio
Temple: Fran Dunphy, Chris Clark and Mark Tyndale
La Salle: John Giannini and Darnell Harris
Even by John Giannini's own admission, the game was pretty well over at halftime.
Yes, La Salle got within 12 points with 6:28 left in the game, but the hole was just too big to climb out of.
In the end, Temple left the Explorers' dreams of a Big 5 championship in shreds, walking out of Tom Gola Arena with an 85-66 win. It clinched second place in the Atlantic 10 for the Owls -- and took that same City Series title down Broad Street from Olney to Cecil B. Moore.
Temple shot 32-for-66 from the field (48.5%), including 11-for-24 from three-point range (45.8%) and 21-for-42 from two-point range (50.0%), and 10-for-14 from the free throw line (71.4%). Fifteen offensive rebounds, 23 defensive rebounds, 20 assists, seven turnovers, six blocks, five steals and 19 fouls committed.
That adds up to 65 possessions and 1.314 points per possession.
La Salle shot 27-for-61 from the field (44.3%), including 6-for-21 from three-point range (28.6%) and 21-for-40 from two-point range (52.5%), and 6-for-11 from the free throw line (54.5%). Fourteen offensive rebounds, 22 defensive rebounds, 13 assists 12, turnovers, six blocks, one steal and 16 fouls committed.
That adds up to 64 possessions and 1.028 points per possession.
The adage has long been that If you live by the three, you also may well die from it. Darnell Harris led all scorers with 26 points -- 18 in the second half -- but he shot only 4-for-11 from the arc, and 11-for-21 overall.
Harris' first made trey of night made him the top three-point shooter in Atlantic 10 history; his last was the last shot of the game -- and his last ever at Gola -- with 4.8 seconds left.
So the line of the game goes to a guy who has really stepped up in the last few games to become Temple's third scoring option, Chris Clark. And fitting, perhaps, that he did this on the same floor where he also played his last high school game with St. Joe's Prep:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C. Clark |
27 |
8-10 |
0-0 |
6-8 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
25 |
22 |
It's Temple's first Big 5 title since 2004-05, when -- like this year -- they tied Villanova for first place at 3-1.
It's also Fran Dunphy's fifth career City Series championship; he won outright in 1994 (2-0) and 2002 (4-0), and in 1992 and 1998 everyone split at 1-1.
We also got two rollouts in the second half. The first came from La Salle's students right at center court of section E3, with 15:41 to play in the 2nd half: "It's OK we like Dr. G better."
And with just over two minutes left in the game, the Temple students at the top of section E1 unfurled one that read "BIG 5 CHAMPS," with an accompanying chant of the same words.
It's always better to have some rollouts than none.
Greetings from a sold-out Tom Gola arena, where we're actually a bit into the second half but I couldn't post until now because my laptop battery was dead. But having found a power outlet, here are the first-half stats after Temple took a commanding 50-26 lead over La Salle into intermission.
The Owls' offense was going full throttle. Temple shot 18-for-31 from the field (58.1%), including 5-for-8 from three-point range (62.5%) and 13-for-23 from two-point range (56.5%), and 9-for-13 from the free throw line. Seven offensive rebounds, 12 defensive rebounds, nine assists, three turnovers five blocks, three steals and nine fouls committed.
That adds up to 33 possessions and 1.507 points per possession.
Chris Clark has the hot hand, leading all scorers with 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting -- including 3-for-3 from beyond the arc. He's still making big shots as I type, and more on that to come after the game.
La Salle kept things close for a while, but a 12-1 Temple run midway through the half broke things open.
For the half, the Explorers shot 11-for-32 from the field (34.4%), including 3-for-12 from three-point range (25.0%) and 8-for-20 from two-point range (40.0%), and 1-for-3 from the free throw line (33.3%), Ten offensive rebounds, nine defensive rebounds, eight assists, nine turnovers, two blocks, no steals and 10 fouls committed.
That adds up to 32 possessions and 0.802 points per possession.
Darnell Harris is only 2-for-6 from beyond the arc and 3-for-9 overall; his eight total points led La Salle at halftime.
The pregame ceremony included a nice touch for the Explorers' other senior, Sherman Diaz: a playing of the Trinidad and Tobago national anthem for the Diego Martin native.
Come back later for press conference audio and full game stats.
Teek writes:
The best NCAA tournament game in town takes place this Friday night at 8:00 at Ursinus College where the 25-2 Ursinus Bears, Centennial Conference champions with a 20-0 league record, take on Baptist Bible College in an opening round Division III NCAA Tournament game.
$6.00 for adults, $3.00 for kids - to see an NCAA game cheaper you'd have to be playing in it.
He's got a good point. I can't make it, but maybe you can.
I can't make it to the Fieldhouse tonight either -- though most of us won't be able to because there won't be so much as an inch to spare tonight when St. Joe's hosts Xavier.
Among the absolute must-read stories on Philly.com today is Ray Parrillo's look back at the Hawks' 59-year-old home floor, and some of the great memories that have been created there over the years.
The other outstanding story today is Mike Jensen's feature on basketball players from Philadelphia who are now pros in Europe. It's the first of a two-part series on Philly athletes abroad, and it runs on the front page of the print edition of today's Inquirer.
Mike went all the way to Poland to find a bumper crop of expats on the hardwood out there, ranging from Rashid Atkins to Chet Stachitas to Mustafa Shakur. He came back with an outstanding story that might be the best piece of college basketball journalism in the city this whole season.
There's also a great map showing where a bunch of players with local ties are now.
Now, I happen to know what the second part of the series is, and if you look in today's paper you'll find it too. But if you don't know, I'm not telling. Let's just say it won't surprise you too much.
Other stories:
Jeff McLane and Steve King on Temple's win over Duquesne that locked up second place in the conference for the Owls
Joe Juliano and Mike Kern on Villanova's win over South Florida
And La Salle got blown out at UMass.
Let's give a Line of the Day to Dionte Christmas for breaking out of a mini-slump:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Christmas |
40 |
12-23 |
9-9 |
4-11 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
30 |
37 |
Ray Parrillo
Jeff McLane
Bob Ford
Dick Jerardi
Rich Hofmann
Inquirer photographer Jerry Lodriguss' gallery
(and Dick Jerardi's usual Monday column)
(and Joe Juliano and Mike Kern's reports from Villanova's loss at Louisville)
Philadelphia Will Do has video highlights from the last few minutes.
I'm editing the College HoopsCast right now and will have it posted later this afternoon.
Temple's Mark Tyndale drives for the winning basket. (Jerry Lodriguss/Inquirer)
Postgame audio
Temple: Fran Dunphy, Mark Tyndale and Chris Clark
St. Joseph's: Phil Martelli
Inquirer staff writer Ray Parrillo's early recap
Mark Tyndale admitted after the game that he felt Temple deserved some sort of revenge for the Owls' controversial loss to St. Joe's earlier in the season.
Tonight, he got it.
Tyndale delivered the game-winning basket with 22 seconds left, and 9-6 Temple now sits alone in second place in the Atlantic 10 after its 57-56 win over St. Joe's. The Hawks fell to fourth place in the conference below Massachusetts, and are even with the Minutemen, Richmond and La Salle at 8-6.
The Owls shot 21-for-50 from the field (42.0%), including 7-for-20 from three-point range (35.0%) and 14-for-30 from two-point range (46.7%), and 8-for-11 from the free throw line (72.7%). Eight offensive rebounds, 23 defensive rebounds, 12 assists, 11 turnovers, four blocks, five steals and 13 fouls committed.
That adds up to 59 possessions and 0.962 points per possession.
St. Joe's shot 20-for-52 from the field (38.5%), including a frigid 2-for-16 from three-point range (12.5%) and 18-for-36 from two-point range (50.0%), and 14-for-16 from the free throw line (87.5%). Ten offensive rebounds, 22 defensive rebounds, six assists, nine turnovers, seven blocks and five steals.
That adds up to 58 possessions and 0.972 points per possession.
Just as significantly, after scoring 24 points in the paint in the first half, the Hawks only scored six from there in the second half. At the other end of the floor, Temple scored six points in the paint in the first half and 20 in the second.
Line of the Game goes to the guy who took the thing on his back in the second half and carried the Owls to the win:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. Tyndale |
40 |
7-8 |
0-0 |
1-2 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
23 |
15 |
So as I head off to sleep, I leave you with this question:
What does finishing second in the Atlantic 10 get you this year?
Honestly, I have no idea.
Off we go from the Palestra at what is simply a monstrous game for St. Joe's if the Hawks are to have any chance of making the NCAA Tournament.
But the Owls surely have that crushing last-second loss to St. Joe's at the Liacouras Center front and center in their memories, and will be out for revenge tonight.
This game counts as the Big 5 game for the season, in addition to its impact on the Atlantic 10 standings and which teams will get byes in Atlantic City.
It's a full house and then some, with the corners jammed well before tipoff. The St. Joe's student section is surprisingly small, though -- just section 120, and maybe a few rows of 220. It's certainly not the wall of crimson we're used to when the Hawks play on 33rd Street.
The Temple students and band are together in section 108. The brass players in the band have little cutouts of Phil Martelli's head in full scream attached to their music holders. Nice tough.
As always, check back here for all the rollouts, chants and so forth. The game is on CSN, so feel free to post comments as you watch.
The starting lineups:
Temple
F Fr 24 Lavoy Allen
C Jr 41 Sergio Olmos
G Sr 13 Mark Tyndale
G Jr 22 Dionte Christmas
G So 10 Luis Guzman
St. Joseph's
F Sr 52 Rob Ferguson
F Sr 12 Pat Calathes
C Jr 34 Ahmad Nivins
G So 13 Darrin Govens
G Jr 0 Tasheed Carr
15:57 1st, 6-4 St. Joe's: The first rollout of the night comes from Temple: "YOU HAVE ONE OF OUR ROLLOUTS."
Well now. Seeing as how the St. Joe's students snuck a "THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE" rollout into the Villanova section at the Holy War (yes, that's my admission that I completely missed it during the game), let's see where that goes.
And here it is, as the Temple students chant "That's our rollout!" : "YOU CAN'T SPELL DIONTE W/O NIT"
I maintain, as I've been saying on the College HoopsCast for a while now, that an NIT bid would be a pretty nice accomplishment for Temple.
And if St. Joe's isn't careful, they might end up there too.
11:58 1st, 17-13 St. Joe's: I thought I just saw a Temple rollout coming, but it fell over. Oh, it was upside down. Here it is: "NBA SCOUTS TO CALATHES ... YAWN"
7:29 1st, 22-16 St. Joe's: Another Temple rollout: "FLAP YOUR WINGS IF YOU SUCK"
At the St. Joe's end, there's one unfurling slowly. Now it's just sitting there held up behind a row of students, and I can't tell if they're going to lift it. They finally do: "STUDENTS @ TU... TYPICAL UNDERACHIEVERS" The Temple students chant "Boring, boring..."
3:51 1st, 27-22 St. Joe's: Another Temple rollout, and I'm starting to wonder why they've got more than St. Joe's by some distance: "OUR FOOTBALL TEAM WON HOMECOMING... DID BC'S?"
Oh wow. Can I please take some credit for that? Seriously, I had the BC-St. Joe's football thing on here way before anyone else in the Philly media did. So I'm going to take credit for insipring that rollout, thank you very much.
HALFTIME, 31-27 St. Joe's Whereas the Liacouras Center game was an up-and-down, frenetic affair, this game has been much more deliberate and methodical.
I'm not too surprised, to be honest; it's the time of year where you don't want to make too many mistakes, and it's also the time of year when legs get a little weary as the regular season nears its end.
Here, then are the numbers.
For Temple: 9-for-25 from the field (36.0%), including 5-for-14 from three-point range (35.7%) and 4-for-11 from two-point range (36.4%), and 4-for-6 from the free throw line (66.7%). Four offensive rebounds, 11 defensive rebounds, eight assists, seven turnovers, two blocks, two steals and six fouls committed.
That adds up to 31 possessions and 0.875 points per possession.
For St. Joe's: 12-for-26 from the field (46.2%), and all the made baskets were inside the arc -- the Hawks were 0-for-8 from three-point range. They also shot 7-for-8 from the line (87.5%). Four offensive rebounds, 12 defensive rebounds, two assists, six turnovers, five blocks, three steals and six fouls committed.
That adds up to 32 possessions and 0.975 points per possession.
And it's not just that all the made baskets were from two-point range. St. Joe's scored all of their 24 points from the field in the paint. A lot of them came from driving guards, but Ahmad Nivins has stepped up with nine points on 4-for-5 shooting.
Dionte Christmas leads Temple with 10 points on 3-for-7 shooting, including 2-for-5 from three-point range.
Okay, time for the second half.
15:41 2nd, 41-29 St. Joe's: The Hawks jump out on a 10-2 run to start the half, five of the points coming from Tasheed Carr. A Temple rollout: "ST. JOE'S HAWK: FAILED 2ND GRADE ART PROJECT"
15:00 2nd, 43-29 St. Joe's: As Rob Ferguson hits a short jumper, the St. Joe's students unfurl a rollout during the run of play" ¡HOLA OLMOS! DONDE ESTA EL "POST GAME"? A few people behind me laughed, for what it's worth.
11:18 2nd, 49-38 St. Joe's: Another Temple rollout: "SJU BBALL ENDS IN 2 WEEKS X-MAS IS ALL YEAR LONG"
While I was reading the rollout, they had that contest where two students have to run down the floor and make a layup dressed in Dunkin' Donuts coffee cup costumes. Apparently the Temple student in the contest did something illegal, so the St. Joe's student won.
Public address man Brian Startare announced that the winner got "a great prize pack from Dunkin' Donuts because Temple didn't follow the rules." That drew one of the louder cheers on the night.
6:45 2nd, 52-42 St. Joe's: As the game just sort of rolls on, the atmosphere pretty muted by Big 5 standards, at least we get a Temple rollout with a little spice to it: "PHIL'S NEXT BOOK: HOW TO SET A MOVING PICK"
And I thought we were almost past that. I guess not.
5:08 2nd, 52-49 St. Joe's: Serves me right again. Chris Clark hits an open three at the left corner and Phil Martelli quite angrily calls a timeout. We have a game again.
3:59 2nd, 52-51 St. Joe's: Mark Tyndale almost coast-to-coast for a slam to bring the Owls within one point, but Lavoy Allen has picked up a pair of fouls in literally the last 10 seconds. After the media timeout, Pat Calathes will go to the line to shoot two free throws.
Another Temple rollout: "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: GET ONE"
1:44 2nd, 54-53 St. Joe's: With Pat Calathes trapped against the far baseline, Phil Martelli saves him by calling a timeout. The St. Joe's students bring down the "THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE" rollout.
1:35 2nd, 56-53 St. Joe's: With a second on the shot clock, Calathes twists and turns his way for a tough bank shot in the lane.
1:24 2nd, 56-55 St. Joe's: Ahmad Nivins goaltends a Mark Tyndale runner.
0:44.6 2nd, 56-55 St. Joe's: After Calathes misses a long stepback two from the left corner, Temple gets the rebound and Fran Dunphy calls timeout after the ball crosses midcourt.
0:23 2nd, 57-56 Temple: With two on the shot clock, Tyndale turns on the jets for a nifty layup to give the Owls the lead. The Temple fans go nuts, including an a capella rendition of "Rock N' Roll Part II." Wow.
(And it's nice to hear the Hey Song at the Palestra again. It's been a while.
FINAL: TEMPLE 57, ST. JOE'S 56: Unbelievably, the Owls pull off the win and all but surely eliminate the entire Big 5 from NCAA Tournament contention for the first time since 1977.
The Hawks had the ball at the end, but Calathes, Carr and Ferguson all missed chances to win the game from close range.
The Temple students rush the floor, and after the security guards force them back to the sidelines they all start jumping up and down chanting "I believe the Hawk is dead!"
Meanwhile, most of the St. Joe's students are still here, and are standing around in one giant mass of stunned disbelief.
Back later with final stats and the press conferences.
Interesting results in the Big 5 last night, and I can honestly say I'm not sure any of them surprise me this morning.
Well, St. Joe's losing at Duquesne surprised me when I first heard it. But in retrospect, it doesn't, because the Dukes play a far faster tempo than the Hawks do and the game was played at 80 possessions a side.
It's certainly no surprise that Phil Martelli is furious about his team letting Duquesne shoot 60 percent from the field after defending Villanova so well.
Nonetheless, let's highlight Dukes forward Shawn James, who recorded the first triple-double in school history:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S. James |
27 |
7-10 |
3-3 |
0-1 |
6 |
5 |
11 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
10 |
4 |
36 |
17 |
Anyone who gets ten blocks in a game is worthy of the spotlight, even before the points and rebounds.
As for Temple, I said on this week's College HoopsCast that I had a hunch Richmond would sneak a win in this game. That's exactly what happened, though Mark Tyndale's flu had a lot to do with the result as well.
Unlike the St. Joe's-Duquesne game, the Temple-Richmond affair was played at a snail's pace -- 60 possessions a side. That's no surprise, because the Spiders play a Princeton offense and their coach, Chris Mooney, is a Princeton alum (and Archbishop Ryan graduate).
But if I had to pick one coach from anywhere in the country to beat a Princeton offense, I'd pick Fran Dunphy. Including last year's win over Richmond, Dunphy is 21-14 all-time against Princeton offenses -- indeed, at Penn all those games were against the Tigers themselves.
Indeed, the Owls held Richmond to 39 percent shooting from the field last night. Looking at the game flow, it just seems like one of those nights where the two teams were close throughout and the Spiders just edged it at the end.
The line that stands out is from Richmond guard David Gonzalvez:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Gonzalvez |
34 |
7-13 |
3-5 |
3-4 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
22 |
20 |
The good news of the night came in Washington, where La Salle heaped further misery upon my boss' alma mater by beating George Washington. Great job by the Explorers defense to hold the Colonials to 39 percent shooting, and at the other end it was another big night for Darnell Harris:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. Harris |
29 |
6-10 |
2-2 |
6-10 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
26 |
20 |
Just as importantly, the Explorers are now 4-4 in conference play and are in a comfortable position for a trip to Atlantic City next month.
Nationally, Dick Vitale was given quite a gift for his return to the broadcasting table -- a barnburner of a game between Duke and North Carolina.
For as much as I don't like feeding the hype machine that gets cranked up to full blast whenever the Blue Devils and Tar Heels meet, the two teams lived up to their rankings last night and gave it every ounce of the effort you would expect in such a fierce rivalry.
Who knows what would have happened if Ty Lawson had played, though? If nothing else, I'm sure Carolina wouldn't have committed 20 turnovers.
But because he didn't play, and because we all knew his absence was coming, the gameplan for Duke was clear. As J.P. Giglio and Caulton Tudor down at ACC Now predicted, Mike Krzyzewski let Tyler Hansbrough score his points and put the clamps down on everyone else.
Taking out Hansbrough's 28 points on 12-for-21 shooting, the other seven Tar Heel players combined to make only 16 of 48 field goal attempts. Episcopal grad Wayne Ellington was perhaps the game's worst shooter, finishing 3-for-14.
And while UNC shot 3-for-17 from three-point range, Duke shot a (yes, Dickie V) sensational 13-for-29 from beyond the arc.
So full marks to Duke for a big road win that solidified their status among the top of this year's class in college basketball.
... a bit from George Washington-Temple.
Postgame audio:
-- George Washington: Karl Hobbs and Maureece Rice
-- Temple: Fran Dunphy, Lavoy Allen and Chris Clark
I went to the Liacouras Center yesterday for two reasons, both of which really had to do with the visiting team. The first was that while the Owls have been on a hot streak of late, the Colonials have also stunned Atlantic 10 observers with what is now a 1-6 record in conference play. And the one win was that 49-20 record-setter against Saint Louis, which in that context doesn't look so special.
We knew the defending champions' loss of Carl Elliot and Regis Koundjia would be big, but not that big.
I also wanted to see Colonials guard Maureece Rice, who I've written about on the blog before. Now a senior, the Philadelphia native visited his hometown for the last time in his college career yesterday and got a nice reception during pregame introductions.
But what everyone really came to see was his scoring; after all, his 2,681 career points at Strawberry Mansion broke Wilt Chamberlain's famed city high school scoring record.
While Rice struggled early on yesterday, he came alive in the second half and was the driving force behind GW's rally from 17 points down to take a 70-69 lead with 7:49 left in the game.
Temple regained control of things after that, but Rice ended the day with game highs of 22 points and six rebounds. Talking to Rice after the game, he wasn't at all happy about having lost, but he did acknowledge that the day did hold a bit of extra importance for him.
As for a line of the game, it would be easy to give it to Mark Tyndale or Lavoy Allen because they were the guys who took things over at the end. But since it was Chris Clark's birthday and he was on fire in the first half, I think he deserves it:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C. Clark |
24 |
6-7 |
1-2 |
4-5 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
23 |
17 |
I'll be back later tonight from the Palestra.
And I don't mean El Wingador at 3-to-1. But given that it is Wing Bowl Day, and that we could see a Philly.com record for single-day pageviews today (I have to keep an eye on this stuff as part of my real job), I figured I'd add to the tally with a cheap headline.
Fran Dunphy walked into Rose Hill Gym last night carrying a two-game losing streak in the Bronx. Last year, Temple lost at Fordham on the last day of the season, 80-73, after being tied at halftime. A year before that, Dunphy's final Penn team won the first half by three points but lost the second half by 18.
So maybe it was good karma that Temple trailed at the half yesterday, 26-23. And maybe it was another sign of how far the Owls have come over the last few weeks that they rallied to beat the Rams, 58-50, even though Mark Tyndale and Dionte Christmas combined to shoot 9-for-25 from the field.
A Line of the Day, then, to the guy who stepped up to hit the big shots: Chris Clark.
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
C. Clark |
26 |
6-9 |
2-2 |
2-5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
15 |
This is the picture that big5fan linked to in his comment, and I had to take it out because URLs in comments do bad things to our servers.
I was pretty sure, though, that JBird was right that the expiration of time is governed by the light on the backboard, not the scoreboard clock.
So in the name of public service, I once again took out my scuba diving gear and plunged into the 181-page monstrosity that is the "NCAA Basketball 2008 Men's and Women's Rules and Interpretations" manual. (the link goes to a .pdf version of it).
Art. 2. Each period shall end when the red light or LED lights has become activated. When the light fails to operate or is not visible, each period shall end with the sounding of the game-clock horn.
Except it seems like that is contradicted by this:
b. In games with a 10th-of-a-second game clock display and where an official courtside monitor is used, the reading of zeros on the game clock is to be used to determine whether a try for goal occurred before or after the expiration of time in any period. When the game clock is not visible, the officials shall verify the original call with the use of the red/LED light(s). When the red/LED light(s) are not visible, the sounding of the game-clock horn shall be utilized. When definitive information is unattainable with the use of the monitor, the original call stands.
I'm going to do some research for clarification and get back to you. Seems like the refs can go either way, though. For what it's worth, the Princeton-Temple game in 2004 had a similar controversy -- actually, looking in the Inquirer archives, it might have been more obvious that time -- and the Owls came out on top.
I do know this. Whether or not the shot would have counted, the block superceded it in the end and St. Joe's won the game. So why are all the Hawks fans going around screaming about how the clock had expired when it didn't matter anyway?
Well, maybe I know the answer to that one...
Postgame audio
-- St. Joe's: Phil Martelli and Pat Calathes
-- Temple: Fran Dunphy
-- Temple: Mark Tyndale and Dionte Christmas
I thought it was a goaltend.
After Mark Tyndale let fly with what was going to be the game-winning, buzzer-beating layup, I thought I saw the ball just barely start coming down before Ahmad Nivins swatted it away.
So did a guy I know who was sitting under that basket and wasn't explicitly rooting for either team, and so did all the Temple fans in the Liacouras Center crowd of 10,045 -- the largest this place has seen in almost four years, and a hell of a lot larger than anything I've ever seen here in person.
But I didn't see the replay, just a split-second of live action that for now only lives in my mind.
Mike Jensen, who will definitely be talking about this on Monday's College HoopsCast, did see the replay and thought it was a fair block.
Regardless, the ref's judgement stands.
In what has to be one of the great games in this rivalry, St. Joe's beat Temple, 68-67, and danced on the Owls' floor when all was said and done.
The deciding sequence went something like this. After Mark Tyndale hit a layup with 42 seconds left to give Temple a 67-65 lead and Phil Martelli called timeout.
On the ensuing possession, Rob Ferguson coughed the ball up with 38 seconds left. It took 18 more seconds for the teams to battle it out for possession, but Dionte Christmas got it in the end and called timeout. Three seconds later, D.J. Rivera fouled Mark Tyndale, and he went to the line to shoot one-and-one.
Call it nerves, humanity, or whatever else you want, but the free throw hit the back iron and Ferguson got the rebound. Down the floor the Hawks went, and after the ball moved around a bit, Pat Calathes was wide open for a three.
The crowd held its breath, Calathes let fly, and the shot was perfect. Cue bedlam from the Hawks fans, but Tyndale saw a path to victory. Fran Dunphy didn't call timeout, so Tyndale raced downcourt, got the layup off in plenty of time... and could only watch Nivins get the last laugh.
"From one angle it looked like a goaltend, from the other it looked like a good block," Tyndale said afterwards. "So I've got to give Nivins some credit, he hustled back, so I give him credit for a great block, I think."
Phil Martelli couldn't quite believe it all.
"The better team didn't win tonight," he said. "That was the hardest handshake I've had in this rivalry, because I didn't know what to say."
The final stats really were as close as the score.
For St. Joe's: 24-for-53 from the field (45.3%), including 11-for-22 from 3-point range (50.0%) and 13-for-31 from 2-point range (41.9%), and 9-for-10 from the free throw line -- all in the second half. Six offensive rebounds, 21 defensive rebounds, 14 assists, 10 turnovers, two blocks, three steals and 15 fouls committed.
That adds up to 62 possessions and 1.101 points per possession.
For Temple: 25-for-51 from the field (49.0%), including 11-for-23 from beyond the arc (47.8%) and 14-for-28 from within it (50.0%), and 6-for-10 from the line. Six offensive rebounds, 22 defensive rebounds, 12 assists, 11 turnovers, eight blocks, four steals and 15 fouls committed.
That adds up to 61 possessions and 1.103 points per possession.
Line of the game is tough. Dionte Christmas did everything he could, scoring 21 points on 6-for-12 shooting, including 5-for-10 from three. Rob Ferguson's 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting, including a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point range, would also be a worthy nominee.
But in the end, I think it has to go to the guy who won the game. Sixteen points in the second half on 5-for-7 shooting, including 2-for-4 from the arc, to go with a perfect 4-for-4 from the line and four rebounds for this guy:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P. Calathes |
35 |
8-14 |
4-4 |
4-9 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
2 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
4 |
24 |
24 |
If anything was absolute at the end, it was this: the only sound in the arena was that of the St. Joe's students in the upper deck screaming, "The Hawk will never die!" and "This is our house!" at the top of their lungs.
It was the fifth straight St. Joe's win in this series and the 10th in the last 11, and I have to believe it was the most painful of all of them for Temple fans.
You tell me: was it?
The true indication of how far Temple has come over the last few weeks came in the first half today.
Running an offense that is finally starting to look like the Fran Dunphy system we know, the Owls moved the ball around well, took their time, and got good shots from the perimeter on the way to a 35-28 halftime lead.
That margin also had a lot to do with Temple's defense, certainly more so than the St. Joe's offense. The Owls blocked five Hawks shots, with three coming from Sergio Olmos and one each from Dionte Christmas and Lavoy Allen.
Ahmad Nivins was only 2-for-7 from the field, and Pat Calathes only 3-for-7. St. Joe's as a whole did not even get to the free throw line once.
Since the second half is already underway, I'll keep this brief and just give you the numbers.
For St. Joe's: 11-for-28 from the field (39.3%), including 6-for-13 from 3-point range (46.2%) and 5-for-15 from 2-point range (33.3%), and no free throws taken. One offensive rebound, 10 defensive rebounds, eight assists, seven turnovers, no blocks, two steals and eight fouls committed.
That adds up to 34 possessions and 0.824 points per possession.
For Temple: 13-for-26 from the field (50.0%), including 6-for-11 from 3-point range (54.5%) and 7-for-15 from 2-point range (46.7%), and 3-for-5 from the line (60.0%). Three offensive rebounds, 15 defensive rebounds, six assists, seven turnovers, five blocks, two steals and six fouls committed.
That adds up to 32 possessions and 1.081 points per possession.
Will it last? I don't really know for sure. But we'll find out soon enough.
Okay, back to the action.
Okay, it's time to move on from Penn for a while. Yes, the discussion about the state of the Quakers generated more comments on this blog than any other subject in its history, and you're welcome to continue that discussion below. But Penn is off for a week, and tomorrow the big boys take center stage.
You heard me right. Villanova, St. Joe's and Temple are the marquee programs in the city right now, as they have been historically. They all play big games on Broad Street tomorrow, the former against Notre Dame at the Wachovia Center and the latter two against each other at the Liacouras Center.
I'll be at both, hopefully doing at least some liveblogging. Whether or not I end up doing any in-game writing, I'll post the press conferences from both games here when they're done and offer some analysis as well.
Yes, that means I won't make it to Saint Louis-La Salle. It is a game I would otherwise be interested in, given how much the Billikens have been in the headlines lately -- both for their historic loss at George Washington and Rick Majerus' recent controversial step into the political arena.
Still, I hope a few of you all will be joining me for tomorrow's doubleheader. A quick check of the web shows that both games still have tickets available, reminding us that there's no better city in the country for watching multiple college basketball games in person in the same day.
It was a better effort from Penn than their blowout loss to St. Joe's on Saturday, but like that game the Quakers fell into a big hole early and never recovered. The final score was 80-64; it was 41-22 at halftime, in large part because the Owls shot 8-for-12 from three in the first half.
For those of you wondering why I didn't liveblog the game, I didn't have a power outlet at my seat and my laptop battery wasn't going to make it through the whole game.
I have to get to sleep, but I'll have a lot more to say about this game tomorrow -- as well as the big win for St. Joe's over Massachusetts, and Villanova's ugly loss at Rutgers.
For now, here are the Penn and Temple postgame press conferences. There's also a good photo gallery from the Inquirer's Jerry Lodriguss.
Talk to you all tomorrow.
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.
Greetings to those of you coming over from ACC Now, the Raleigh News and Observer's fine college sports blog. UNC's fans came by last month, and with N.C. Stave having paid a visit to Philadelphia this past March, now we just need Wake Forest to play here to make the Tobacco Road quartet complete.
I've got a grand total of five audio clips for your listening pleasure. From Duke, here are Mike Krzyzewski and Gerald Henderson. From Temple, here are Fran Dunphy, Dionte Christmas and Mark Tyndale.
Henderson, of course, is a Merion native who starred along with Tar Heels guard Wayne Ellington for Episcopal Academy before heading down to the Triangle. The nationally-televised game those two played against Neumann-Goretti at the Palestra a few years ago was the subject of some good banter between Henderson and reporters before I turned the recorder on.
Of note, the Dunphy audio is one long clip with two parts spliced together. The first half is his press conference; the second is him talking to me and Mike Sielski of the Bucks County Courier Times outside the locker room after that.
Also of note, some final stats: Mark Tyndale scored 20 points and Dionte Christmas scored 23, the latter of which was notable for Christmas' 5-for-16 performance from the field, including 3-for-11 from three-point range. But he was 10-for-12 from the free throw line.
Duke averaged 1.051 points per possession for the game: a nicely balanced 1.049 in the first half and 1.053 in the second half. Temple averaged 0.870 points per possession in the game; 0.626 in the first half and 1.106 in the second half.
The key state for the game was probably assist-to-turnover ratio: 13 to 14 for Duke and 11 to 20 for Temple.
The crowd was announced at 18,030.
I can't honestly say that there was a great line from this game. So I'm going to steal two from the Rhode Island-Dayton game, a 92-83 win for the Flyers at a jam-packed UD Arena. A few of us caught glances of the streaming video on press row and were quite impressed by Rhody's comeback.
What impresses me most looking at the box score is that Rhode Island averaged 1.23 points per possession and Dayton averaged 1.29. Not much defense there, but I'm sure not complaining.
Here are the lines for the game's two big backcourt stars, Jimmy Baron of Rhode Island and Brian Roberts of Dayton. If there was ever a game when efficiency was meaningless, this was it:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. Baron |
35 |
8-20 |
4-4 |
6-14 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
26 |
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B. Roberts |
34 |
7-11 |
6-7 |
3-6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
7 |
1 |
3 |
21 |
23 |
Okay, with all that done, I'm going to call it a night and chill out to a 14-minute LP version of this song that I just stumbled across on iTunes:
(Gratuitous hat tips to Philadelphia Will Do, The Next Mayor and Heard in the Hall. Honestly, I just wanted to get it in here somewhere because it's just that cool.)
Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone
I have a dream in my heart
I have a love of my own
-- "Blue Moon," by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Greetings from the Wachovia Center, where some computer problems prevented me from getting this post up before tipoff. But better late than never.
I figured there would be a lot of Duke fans here tonight, but I didn't expect there to be quite as many as there turned out to be, mainly because it's a midweek game instead of on a weekend. I'd say the crowd is at least 3-to-1 blue over cherry in terms of attire, though it might be more favorable to Temple in terms of decibel level.
If nothing else, the crowd is at least in the 14-15,000 range, which is way bigger than the last time I was down here for a game televised on ESPN. The lower bowl is totally full and the upper bowl is full along the sidelines but not the ends.
We'll never know just how many of them have a tangible link to the school, but with Gerald Henderson and Brian Zoubek in town (though the latter is injured) in town, it's not so hard to claim one.
Ed Stefanski and Dave Wohl are here, which makes me wonder just whose home game this is anyway. Billy King, the Duke alumnus and former 76ers GM, is here too. Stefanski and King here at the same time... hmm.
(Wohl, for those of you who don't know, was Steve Bilsky's backcourt mate during Penn's early 1970s dynasty. He's now an assistant coach for the Celtics. Stefanski came to 33rd Street later in the decade.)
Duke started Kyle Singler, DeMarcus Nelson, David McClure, and Gerald Henderson. Henderson was introduced second and got a big ovation, but Kyle Singler might have tied him.
Temple started Mark Tyndale, Lavoy Allen, Sergio Olmos, Luis Guzman and Dionte Christmas.
Henderson scored the game's first basket at 18:34, an acrobatic reverse layup after driving from the right baseline to the other side of the basket.
Temple didn't score until Dionte Christmas hit a free throw with 15:48 on the clock. The Temple fans had all been standing in anticipation of the Owls' first points, and looked pretty confused when some people started sitting down after the free throw. You Temple fans out there can tell me whether the rule pertains to field goals or points in general.
The Owls had a 3-2 lead after Lavoy Allen drove to the basket for a tough layup and was fouled by Jon Scheyer, but a Greg Paulus three gave Duke the lead back. Temple got it to 6-5 in its favor and has trailed ever since.
Right now, there are seven minutes left in the first half and Duke is up 23-16.
Come back later for postgame press conference audio and whatever else is worth noting.
UPDATE: It's 39-23 Duke at the half. DeMarcus Nelson has eight and Greg Paulus has nine for the Blue Devils, while Gerald Henderson just has the two he scored on the opening basket. Mark Tyndale and Ryan Brooks lead Temple with seven each.
Duke shot 13-for-30 from the field, including 3-for-11 from three-point range, and 10-for-13 from the arc. Six offensive rebounds 17 defensive rebounds, 10 fouls committed, seven assists, seven turnovers, one block and six steals.
That comes to 37 possessions and 1.049 points per possession.
Temple shot 7-for-27 from the field including 3-for-15 from beyond the arc, and 6-for-10 from the line. Seven offensive rebounds, 13 defensive rebounds, 13 fouls committed, six assists, 12 turnovers, four assists and five steals.
That also comes to 37 possessions, but only 0.626 points per possession.
Marco Anskis of Storming the Floor is sitting right behind me, and remarked that he's very impressed with Duke's defense. I'm not surprised at all; as I said on this week's College HoopsCast, defense has traditionally been the Blue Devils' calling card and it is even more so this season. Duke is seventh in the country in defensive efficiency this season.
(The six teams above them might surprise you somewhat. Or maybe not.)
The Temple athletic department put out a release tonight saying that its basketball team will be taking the subway to the Wachovia Center tomorrow afternoon to get to its game against Duke.
The team will be leaving the Liacouras Center at 4:45 p.m. It might be a bit early for fans to stay down there, but you do have to give Temple some credit for trying a promotion that I never would have imagined a program of its stature doing.
UPDATE: You can read the release here. To the commenter who asked, I don't think they would have made it public information if they didn't want to get attention for it.
The game wasn't much, and the attendance (3,254) at the Palestra wasn't either, but the end result was significant: Temple 64, Drexel 51.
The Owls hit seven of 16 threes to the Dragons' 2-of-10, and held Frank Elegar to 6-of-17 from the field. His 18 points and 12 rebounds are big numbers, but the Dragons clearly needed someone else to step up and it didn't happen.
Gerald Colds, who wore a face mask to protect a broken nose suffered at George Mason, was only 4-for-13 from the field and 2-for-7 from three. But no other Drexel player took more than six field goal attempts or made more than three.
The standout performance really goes to a guy who has rarely merited it before, but stepped up in a big way today when called on to guard Frank Elegar one-on-one. Sergio Olmos stole the show at both ends of the floor, finishing with this line:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S. Olmos |
36 |
4-9 |
2-2 |
0-0 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
18 |
10 |
Mike Jensen and I will have more to say about the game on Monday's College HoopsCast. But for now, listen to the Temple and Drexel postgame press conferences, including some less-than-positive remarks from both coaches about their teams' performances.
1. A Big 5 game on a Sunday night. According to former Big 5 Executive Secretary Paul Rubincam, this was the first time two city series teams met at that point in the week.
2. A Big 5 game with 194 combined points. We got that tonight too, as Villanova used a 23-7 run early in the second half to pull away from Temple for a 101-93 win in front of 7,720 at the Liacouras Center.
It was 42-39 'Nova at the half, as Temple shot 8-for-16 from three in the first 20 minutes but only 4-for-12 from outside thereafter. The Wildcats made 11 of their 10 attempts from beyond the arc for the game: 6 of 11 in the first half and 5 of 9 in the second.
Dionte Christmas had a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds -- he was one of three Temple players to score 20 or more points -- but the line of the night goes to Scottie Reynolds. He's been quiet the last few games, but he exploded for 20 second-half points as part of this total:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S. Reynolds |
37 |
8-12 |
7-7 |
4-7 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
38 |
27 |
3. A Big 5 team that wins 13 City Series games in a row, because until tonight no team had ever done that before. So congratulations to Villanova for setting that record.
Jay Wright and Fran Dunphy both talked about that bit of history after the game. Click here to listen to Villanova's postgame press conference and here to listen to Temple's.
I'll let you all debate the fact that the game wasn't sold out, mainly because I have to work at 6 a.m. and I can't really say I'm looking forward to it...
I got exclusive interviews with all of the Big 5 coaches at a luncheon held for the media at the Palestra this afternoon. I was a bit surprised that Drexel wasn't there, but this was a Big 5 event and for better or worse, those were the schools present.
Anyway, we have:
-- Introductory remarks from all of the men's coaches and women's coaches Pat Knapp (Penn) and Dawn Staley (Temple). The master of ceremonies was Brian Seltzer, who reports for WPEN 950-AM and also is the radio play-by-play voice of Penn basketball.
(Sorry for the less-than-stellar audio quality on that one. I couldn't get the microphone close enough to the podium.)
-- Phil Martelli
-- Jay Wright
-- Fran Dunphy
-- Glen Miller
-- John Giannini
-- I have to admit, I'm not sure which was the bigger surprise: Temple beating a pretty good Ohio team or Drexel getting crushed at George Mason. Here's the box score. Look at Frank Elegar's line:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F. Elegar |
17 |
0-1 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Unbelievable, isn't it.
-- I thought the Gonzaga-St. Joe's game was great, even if there wasn't a lot of scoring. I wish I could have been there, but even watching on TV I could tell just how much the Fieldhouse was rocking. It was thrilling to see the Hawks come back, but that jumper by Austin Daye to make it 65-61 was as gutsy as it was beautiful.
Mike Jensen mentioned on Monday's podcast that the winner of the game deserved to be ranked. There aren't ties in college basketball the way there are in soccer, but I feel like this game was effectively played to a draw and I wonder if that will change things.
-- The Inquirer's Frank Fitzpatrick reminisces about his old memories of the Palestra in his Morning Bytes column today.
There's also an http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/">Incites Sports Poll asking readers to choose whether the Big 5 is: "A historic collection of long-standing rivals," "The most overrated group since the Spice Girls" or "Irrelevant until after the Super Bowl."
We all know the answer to that.
-- Speaking of the Big 5, all six men's coaches and a few of the women's coaches will be at the Palestra this afternoon for a Media Day. A bit late, to be sure, but I'm headed over there anyway because this week is giving us some good stuff to talk about.
-- And speaking of the CAA, the night got even weirder for the conference when Virginia Commonwealth lost at Hampton, 64-55. Eric Maynor scored 22 points on 8-of-18 shooting (4-of-4 from three), but the Rams committed 21 turnovers and 29 fouls. The Pirates committed 13 and 16. As ESPN.com's Andy Glockner (a known reader of this blog) notes, it's been quite a season so far for the MEAC.
-- I missed a Bracketology earlier in the week. Villanova and St. Joe's are in.
We give out two LOTDs today, because I meant to do this yesterday and forgot.
First up is Temple's Mark Tyndale. No, it's not just because the Owls' win over Marist got them off the schneid for the season. There will be whole teams that don't do this well this year from the free throw line in games:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. Tyndale |
43 |
5-12 |
13-14 |
0-2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
21 |
23 |
I'm fairly sure you won't see a guy score 23 points but end up with a 21-point efficiency score all that often.
Next up is Duke's Kyle Singler... and yes, it pains me somewhat to give a LOTD to a Duke player, but his role in the Blue Devils' 83-61 embarrassment of Princeton (it was 31-4 midway through the first half) was pretty impressive:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
K. Singler |
27 |
9-14 |
1-1 |
2-3 |
9 |
3 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
25 |
21 |
Back tomorrow with the next-to-last football Crunchy Numbers of the season.
It's cold, rainy and generally miserable out. So why not cheer yourself up with this Basketball Prospectus article about just how stunning Temple's collapse against the College of Charleston really was?
Oh, wait...
I wish I could be watching Temple-Providence, but we don't have ESPNU here in the Philly.com newsroom.
We do, however, have a poll asking readers which of the local teams is the best in the region. So far, Villanova is winning in a landslide.
So let's have a look around today's stories, because there are a lot of them.
-- Austin Scott pled not guilty to a range of assault charges yesterday.
-- Jeff McLane also writes about Penn State's offensive line, which is living up to that perennial nickname "big eaters." We also learn that Dan Connor is a finalist for the Walter Camp Award.
-- Joe Juliano takes a look around the local small-college football scene, as a number of local programs get ready for the playoffs.
-- Mike Kern wonders why Hawai'i isn't getting any respect.
-- Drexel won at Florida Gulf Coast, 77-58, thanks to a career high 22 points from Tramayne Hawthorne.
-- Bad news at Penn, which lost guard Darren Smith for the year due to a broken kneecap suffered against Drexel. Smith was definitely going to be one of the Quakers' main scoring options this year and those hopes for a fourth straight Ivy League title just took (no pun intended) a big hit.
-- Speaking of Penn, there are no more single-game tickets left for the North Carolina game. Jay Bilas has some thoughts about the Tar Heels' win over Davidson last night.
Okay, now for a little bit of fun. Line of the Day makes its return this afternoon with a frankly astonishing game last night between Troy and Dallas-based Paul Quinn College. The Trojans won in overtime, 133-131.
The Basketball State boxscore reports that Troy recorded a "NASCAR" tempo of 109.3 possessions and an average of 1.22 points per possession. The Paul Quinn stats aren't included (the team is NAIA) so the stats don't go into the Basketball State machine), but the Yahoo box score has them.
Both teams attempted 92 or more field goals each, including 41 three-point attempts each. Whoa.
This being a new season of LOTD, I've redesigned the template a bit and added the NBA's efficiency model statistic. It is used by Basketball State and a few other sites as well.
The formula (which I am thankful I don't have to do by hand) is:
((Pts + TReb + A + Stl + Blk) - ((FGA - FGM) + (FTA - FTM) + TO))
Our first winner of the season is Troy's Justin Jonus:
Name |
Min |
FG |
FT |
3pt |
OR |
DR |
TR |
A |
S |
TO |
Blk |
PF |
Eff |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. Jonus |
37 |
16-27 |
4-6 |
8-17 |
2 |
6 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
41 |
44 |
It isn't often that you have two teams in this list playing each other. Of course it happens this coming weekend with Delaware at Villanova and Lafayette with Lehigh, but let's have a look at what happened to Temple and Penn State in Sagarin...
22. Penn State (24) -- road win vs. Temple (130)
37. Rutgers (45) -- road win vs. Army (126)
80. Delaware (75) -- home loss (in five overtimes!) vs. Richmond (70)
101. Villanova (110) -- road win vs. Towson (167)
130. Temple (132) -- home loss vs. Penn State (22)
143. Delaware State (139) -- home win vs. Norfolk State (175)
169. Lehigh (172) -- road win vs. Bucknell (223)
178. Lafayette (189) -- road win vs. Holy Cross (136)
195. Penn (199) -- road loss vs. Harvard (152)
242. La Salle (242) road loss vs. Duquesne (224)
Not many wins on the slate, but Lafayette's stands out the most to me.
And by the way, next week will be the last week for this. Crunchy Numbers for basketball will begin some time next month, when we have enough numbers in the system to actually start making some judgements.
The Top 10 comparison:
Rank |
AP |
Coaches |
BCS |
Sagarin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | LSU |
LSU |
LSU |
Kansas |
| 2. | Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
LSU |
| 3. | Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Kansas |
Oregon |
| 4. | Kansas |
Kansas |
Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
| 5. | West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Missouri |
Ohio State |
| 6. | Missouri |
Missouri |
West Virginia |
West Virginia |
| 7. | Ohio State |
Ohio State |
Ohio State |
Florida |
| 8. | Georgia |
Arizona State |
Arizona State |
Arizona State |
| 9. | Arizona State |
Georgia |
Georgia |
Missouri |
| 10. | Virginia Tech |
Virginia Tech |
Virginia Tech |
USC |
Up until now, I had thought pretty much all year that the computer and human rankings would look the same after a while. It's been such a wild year in college football that it hasn't happened yet. And this week's discrepancies are among the biggest we've seen all year.
So who's right?
Andy writes:
Sounded like the game was a total wire-to-wire job by PSU, and we aren't that good this season. That tells me how far the gap really is between us and Temple.
Glad I didnt make the drive down and sit out in the cold for a 31-0 lopsided ballgame.
Temple wasn't quite that bad. Yes, the Owls gave up 202 rushing yards and only recorded four net themselves, but Vaughn Charlton threw for 238 yards passing to Anthony Morelli's 260.
But having said that, Temple was 0-for-4 in the red zone, while Penn State was 4-for-5. There's the difference between the teams in so many ways.
You were certainly right about the weather, though. I went outside for the halftime show and felt at least a little better about the press box being enclosed.
Here's postgame audio:
-- Al Golden
-- Joe Paterno
-- Anthony Morelli
When Temple came out of the tunnel, I looked around and thought there was actually a pretty healthy number of Owls fans in the stands. But then Penn State took the field, the decibel level (as such in an enclosed press box) just about tripled, and that was that.
Welcome to Lincoln Financial Field, which is sold out but not nearly full yet. It's cold, overcast and quite windy, which means it's perfect football weather.
The Owls just put together a pretty nice drive: nine plays and 69 yards in 3:28. But after Dan Connor chased Vaughn Charlton into a sack, Jake Brunell hooked a 23-yard field goal halfway to the Spectrum (seriously, it was that far left) and we remain scoreless.
I'm not going to be liveblogging this thing, even though it's on ESPNU and most people around here don't get that channel. But I'll chime in every once in a while.
For now, here are some photos I took of tailgaters in the parking lot before the game:
The Temple fans were definitely outnumbered, but I found more than a few groups of people dressed in cherry and white.
Some Temple fans strike a pose.
Penn State flags in the parking lot.
And a Temple flag. Though I don't get the "PHETE Team" reference. If someone does, please let me know.
There was even some mingling between the two fan sets.
Now this I thought was funny. Not least because I thought Penn was the place to find the most anti-Penn State stuff around here.
Mike Kern and Kevin Tatum recap the game. And here's postgame audio from Drexel and Penn.
Brian Grandieri led all scorers with 23 of the quietest points you'll ever see in a noisy Palestra. He shot 8-of-14 from the field, a somewhat surprising 0-of-1 from three-point range, and only 7-of-12 from the free throw line -- which he admitted wasn't good enough.
For Drexel, Tramayne Hawthorne (6-of-12 fg, 4-of-10 3pt) and Gerald Colds (6-of-11 fg, 6-of-9 3pt) tied for top scorer with 18 points. But look at the breakdown by halves:
|
First half
|
Second half
|
Overtime
|
|
|
Hawthorne
|
6-9 fg/4-7 3pt
|
0-3 fg/0-3 3pt
|
0-0 fg/0-0 3pt
|
|
Colds
|
2-4 fg/2-4 3pt
|
2-5 fg/2-3 3pt
|
2-2 fg/2-2 3pt
|