Athletics legend reflects on dual-sport career

Frank Bishop played basketball and baseball at Temple. Upon entering the practice of Frank Bishop. in Norristown, Pa., collages of athletic competitions and posters of Philadelphia Phillies players occupy parts of the wall in the patients’ room. Moreover, a portrait of Connie Mac Stadium overlooks Bishop’s office. Bishop, 70, devotes his passion of baseball and works [...]

Men’s basketball team: Season in review

The Owls’ season was spoiled by an early exit in the postseason. The men’s basketball season that was riding high for a one-month stretch from mid-January to mid-February came to a crashing end as the Owls lost back-to-back games, one in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament and one in the NCAA tournament, for the first [...]

Seniors disappoint in season’s conclusion

The Owls’ seniors didn’t show up for their final game. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As the horn sounded on South Florida’s 58-44 win against the men’s basketball team in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Friday, March 16, Temple fans could only sit back and wonder, “What happened?” There was a time this season [...]

Early exit

The Owls lost in the second round to the South Florida Bulls. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For guards, redshirt-senior Ramone Moore and Juan Fernandez, and graduate center Micheal Eric, the team’s early exit in the NCAA Tournament signaled the end of their playing days at Temple. “We just didn’t come out and do our job, and [...]

Owls outscored in 2nd half, lose to South Florida in second round of NCAA Tourney

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Owls saw their season come to an abrupt end with a 58-44 loss to South Florida in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night at the Bridgestone Arena. The 10:01 p.m. [EST] game was played physically, hard-nosed and both teams had trouble getting into any kind of rhythm [...]

Losses loom as Temple advances

Men’s basketball enters March Madness amid a cloud of uncertainty. Uncertainty is the word to use to describe the men’s basketball team right now. Temple fans must feel uncertain about a team that has lost two of its past four games, including a bad loss to Massachusetts in the Owls’ first game of the Atlantic [...]

Dancing days

Owls earn No. 5 seed for the Big Dance. The men’s basketball team hosted a Selection Sunday party for fans and media to join the team at the Liacouras Center, as the Owls earned the fifth seed and the right to play No. 12 South Florida or California on Friday, March 16 in the Midwest [...]

Owls miss opportunities in A-10 quarterfinals

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.–Entering Boardwalk Hall, the No. 24 Temple Owls men’s basketball team knew they had to prove themselves. After trailing by six in overtime and pulling out the win on Feb. 29 against Massachusetts at the Liacouras Center, the rematch was the highlight of the schedule in the first game of the Atlantic Ten [...]

Turnovers doom Temple in A-10 tournament upset

No. 24 Temple lost to UMass, 77-71, in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Top-seeded Temple (24-7) was upset by No. 8 Massachusetts (22-10), 77-71, in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament quarterfinals on Friday afternoon. The loss is the earliest Temple has been eliminated from the A-10 tournament since [...]

Respecting rivals

The Big-5 season produced its share of emotion and drama this year. It all started with a block. Penn senior guard Zack Rosen, who had already dropped 21 points on Temple in the Big 5 season opener on Nov. 14, cued up for an 18-footer that would have broken a tie with less than a [...]

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