There was a rain delay.
At a basketball game.
Due to a leak in the roof of Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, the women’s basketball team’s Atlantic Ten Conference Championship quarterfinal game with Richmond was delayed nearly 90 minutes before finally getting underway.
And after the very long, tedious delay on a very wet and rainy Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, [...]

The women’s basketball team doesn’t want to revisit the pain of last season’s Atlantic Ten Conference Championship.
In fact, they really can’t afford to.
Last year, the Owls entered the A-10 Tournament fairly confident that they were heading to the NCAA Tournament no matter what happened. But this year is a different story.
With No. 1-seeded Temple (19-11, [...]

Mark Tyndale could sleep easily Sunday night.
That wasn’t the case in January, when Saint Joseph’s erased an 11-point deficit and won the teams’ first matchup this season on a late three-pointer by Pat Calathes.
This time the teams’ roles were reversed, as Temple erased a 14-point deficit to win in dramatic fashion, 57-56, at the Palestra. [...]

Normally, when a team holds the conference’s fifth leading scorer to a paltry three points, the coach is going to be pleased.
Well, not every coach is Fran Dunphy.
Thanks in large put to a stalwart defensive effort on Charlotte senior guard Leemire Goldwire, the Owls eased past the 49ers, 75-61, at the Liacorous Center Wednesday.
Junior guard [...]

This is what seniors are supposed to do.
After trailing for much of the game, and by six points with two minutes, 43 seconds to go, Ashley Morris simply took things into her own hands.
Morris scored the next eight points of the contest, including two three-pointers, to give the Owls a hard-fought 63-60 win over [...]

With less than a month until Selection Sunday, the talk of “who’s in” and “who’s out” of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is heating up.
Since tediously going over ESPN.com’s Bubble Watch and Bracketology pages to see where the Owls (13-11, 6-4 Atlantic Ten Conference) stand can give you a headache, let’s calmly and carefully answer [...]

Philadelphia sure is a long way from Valencia, Spain.
But for junior center Sergio Olmos of the men’s basketball team, it’s beginning to feel a lot more like home.
Agreeing to come to Temple without ever stepping foot on campus, Olmos was understandably quiet and reserved when he first arrived on North Broad Street in 2005. Playing [...]

The cheesy Alice Cooper reference aside, Wednesday marked Dawn Staley’s sixth annual School Day.
With over 3,000 kids in attendance from schools across the Philadelphia area, the crowd and atmosphere showed a marked improved from the norm – no matter how screechingly high-pitched the noise got.
“I think it was great to have the crowd there,” [...]

The big men came to play. And so did the little guy.
With a career-high 19 points from freshman forward Lavoy Allen, 10 points from junior center Sergio Olmos and a career-high 17 points from senior guard Chris Clark, the men’s basketball team defeated George Washington, 93-80, at the Liacouras Center Sunday afternoon.
It was the second [...]

The men’s basketball team’s loss to Saint Joseph’s Saturday was nothing short of a heartbreaker.Pat Calathes’ three-pointer with five seconds remaining was, no doubt, a blow to the gut of a Temple team that appeared it might finally overcome its struggles against the Hawks.But in those quick, final five seconds the Owls showed off a [...]