ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Knowing his days playing Temple basketball are numbered, Mark Tyndale has carried the men’s basketball team down the season’s final stretch.
The senior guard has been the Owls’ best all-around player. He shoots. He rebounds. He finds the open shooter. He’s solidified his defense. Perhaps most importantly, he’s played with intensity.
Tyndale did [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Temple men’s basketball team took advantage of La Salle’s slow start and established a 43-35 lead over the Explorers at halftime of their Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament quarterfinals match-up.
The Owls jumped out to a 9-0 lead as the Explorers missed their first seven field goal attempts and didn’t make a [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Stanley Burrell helped Xavier take care of its business on the court Thursday, scoring 13 points as the Musketeers topped Dayton, 74-65, in the Atlantic Ten Tournament second round at Boardwalk Hall.
He then immediately took care of his off-the-court business, clarifying the remarks he made at Monday’s pre-tournament press conference, when [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Exactly one week ago, the Saint Joseph’s Hawks shut down then-No. 8-ranked Xavier in the final game played at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse before that decades-old arena is closed for renovations next season.
The fifth-seeded Hawks will have the opportunity to upset No. 10 Xavier again after slowing down No. 4 Richmond for [...]

Dionte Christmas had an unceremonious end to an otherwise spectacular sophomore season.
After leading the Atlantic Ten Conference in scoring last season at 20 points per game, Christmas was held to just seven points in the Owls loss to Saint Joseph’s in the first round of the A-10 Tournament last March.
Almost a year after that meager [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Four days after losing to Temple in their season finale, the La Salle Explorers booked themselves a return engagement with the Owls after defeating Duquesne, 82-79, in the first round of the Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament Wednesday night.
The seventh-seeded Explorers, who were crushed, 85-66, by visiting Temple Saturday, erased a seven-point [...]

The men’s basketball team won’t know its opponent for Thursday’s Atlantic Ten Conference second-round game until Wednesday night, but the Owls do know their foe will own a high-scoring offense.
Seventh-seeded La Salle and No. 10 Duquesne square off in the A-10 Tournament first round today in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall at 6:30 p.m. The winner [...]

In a season where the competition level in the Atlantic Ten Conference increased seemingly overnight, no one could’ve expected Temple to finish as the second-best team in the 14-team league.
Especially not after a 12-18 overall and 6-8 conference campaign last year.
The No. 2 Owls (18-12) went 10-4 in the conference this season, however, and after [...]

The last three days have been the most uneventful days in the Atlantic Ten Conference in months.
Since Sunday, the conference has been at a standstill, with its teams finally locked into their seedings in the A-10 tournament after two and a half months of scratching and clawing their way there.
Today, the unpredictability – or parity, [...]