Women's Basketball - The Temple News

The Owls responded from a large second-half deficit against East Carolina Saturday, but ran out of time en route to a 76-71 loss.

Temple clinched the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament with a 56-43 defeat of Houston Monday in its regular-season finale.

Junior Erica Covile paced Temple with 22 points, while senior Tyonna Williams had 13 in the team’s 79-69 victory Saturday.

The team honored its lone senior, Tyonna Williams, prior to its 10-point victory.

Freshman Alliya Butts scored 10 of her team-high 17 points in the latter half of Temple’s 55-39 victory against Southern Methodist.

The team points to defensive effort as the biggest difference between wins and losses 28 games through the year.

Tonya Cardoza’s squad ranks near the bottom of Division I in shooting percentage.

The Owls shot a season-low 27 percent from the field en route to a 79-53 defeat Sunday.

Temple forced 21 turnovers in its 69-58 defeat of The Green Wave Tuesday.

Three weeks away from playing in the conference tournament, the squad remains below .500.