While football has sold more tickets, men’s basketball student attendance dropped from the 2015-16 season and women’s basketball attendance has stagnated.
The Owls set a new distance medley relay record, and junior distance runner Kira Von Ehren broke the 3,000-meter mark during the Penn Relays at Franklin Field on Thursday.
Senior guard Shizz Alston Jr. scored 21 points on Senior Day to lift Temple to a 67-62 win against nationally ranked UCF at the Liacouras Center on Saturday.
Al Shrier, who began working at Temple athletics department in 1953, was the longest-tenured NCAA sports information director at the time of his retirement in June 2018.