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Senior forward Scootie Randall boasts the distinction of the team’s best shooter and perimeter defender. | KATE McCANN / TTN

Basketball Preview: Randall returns as stable force

13 November 2012 Joey Cranney

Scootie Randall sparks team defense, leadership.

(From left) Khalif Wyatt, Jake O’Brien and Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson bring senior leadership to the team this season. | KATE McCANN / TTN

Basketball Preview: Picking up the pieces

13 November 2012 Ibrahim Jacobs

Three recruits, two transfers fill the gaps left by seniors.

Basketball Preview

Athletics legend reflects on dual-sport career

24 April 2012 Scott Weiss

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

Foley takes to admin

17 April 2012 Jake Adams

Kristen Foley adapts after switch to administrator. Many college coaches develop a love for the game they teach at a young age. They played their sport as children, then in high school and maybe in

McCarthy goes undrafted, hopes to keep playing

17 April 2012 Jake Adams

Kristen McCarthy hopes to continue her basketball career. Senior guard Kristen McCarthy sat at home in La Puenta, Calif. with family waiting to hear those words. But they never came. McCarthy watched the Women’s National

Peddy goes pro

16 April 2012 Jake Adams

The Chicago Sky select Shey Peddy in the second round. A nervous Shey Peddy played on her phone and pretended not to have the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Draft on her mind. Peddy told The Temple

End of an era

27 March 2012 Jake Adams

The women’s basketball team lost its WNIT Sweet 16 matchup to Syracuse, 82-68, on Thursday, March 22 at McGonigle Hall. Seniors Shey Peddy, Kristen McCarthy, BJ Williams and center Joelle Connelly never got the swan-song

Men’s basketball team: Season in review

27 March 2012 Joey Cranney

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 await WNIT Sweet 16 opponent

19 March 2012 Jake Adams

Women’s basketball defeats Harvard and Quinnipiac in WNIT. The women’s basketball team has reached the NCAA tournament in each of the previous eight years. But when the tournament committee didn’t call Temple’s name on March

Owls blow chance in A-10 semis

19 March 2012 Jake Adams

Women’s basketball lose in A-10’s to Dayton. The final 10 seconds of the women’s basketball team’s loss in the Atlantic Ten Conference tournament semifinals to eventually champion Dayton could have been the season’s defining moment.