FINAL: Temple 80, Penn 64
Bernardini hits a three, but it’s a few minutes too late. He then gets called for a charge, and all Temple needs to do is run out the clock.
Gaines gets a steal and a deuce, but the Egee fouls Brooks, and with 22 seconds left Brooks goes to the line.
With a Tyndale free throw, Temple gets 80 points, and the whole crowd receives free tacos.
1:06 2nd Half: Temple 76, Penn 59
With the shot clock winding down, Clark nails another big three to get the lead out to 15. Gaines misses a tough layup, and Temple has just about put it away. The Owls are on a 9-2 run, and have held Penn off very nicely.
2:33 2nd Half: Temple 71, Penn 57
Bernardini just has no chance. Christmas makes a nasty step-back jumper, that is absolutely huge, opens the lead back to 14. It’s not over yet though, Penn has been scoring a lot.
Bernardini takes a nice pass from Schreiber to get fouled for a 1-and-1.
Eggleston complains about someone standing at the free throw line, and the ref adjust the players quickly.
3:25 2nd Half: Temple 69, Penn 57
Schreiber is unfazed by getting dunked on, pulling down a nice rebound. Bernardini plays tough on the other end, missing a shot, but muscling down the board and scoring.
After two Eggleston free throws cut it to 10, the two teams trade baskets, and Tyndale puts it back to 12.
6:15 2nd Half: Temple 65, Penn 50
SEND IT IN! Tyndale comes through with an absolute monster dunk on Schreiber, even drawing the foul for the and-1 dunk.
Eggleston comes back with a nice move for another and-1, and Olmos picks up his fifth foul, he’s gone. The crowd gives him some support for a nice effort.
6:41 2nd Half: Temple 62, Penn 48
Gaines takes a screen from Schreiber and steps back for an open three. There’s another timeout on the floor, and Miller is surprisingly positive, clapping and slapping the hand of Schreiber.
7:43 2nd Half: Temple 62, Penn 45
Kach makes a nice move to the hoop, as Penn is keeping this a game… but then Christmas nails a three to take the lead back to 16. Every time Penn gets close, the Owls hit a huge shot.
Bernardini is heating up as well this half, as he hits another three.
Allen has had a quiet game, but no one boxes him out, and he get the o-board for an easy layup. Gaines knifes through the defense for two right after.
The Owls are shooting an unreal percentage. The defense was pretty bad in the first half, but now it’s just great shooting. They hit 56 percent in the first half, 8-for-12 from three, and they are certainly keeping those numbers up.
11:12 2nd Half: Temple 51, Penn 38
Finally, Gaines makes an appearance, quickly getting the ball to Bernardini and letting him do the rest.
I’m pretty sure the Miller technical was stemming from the charge that was called on Bernardini, but he might have had a case that Egee’s layup was a goaltend, it might have hit the backboard before being blocked. Head official tonight is Joe DeMayo, so technical fouls aren’t exactly a rarity, he loves to make the controversial call.
12:29 2nd Half: Temple 51, Penn 36
Penn may be down by 16, but is making some signs of coming back in this game. Olmos picks up his second foul of the half that both probably should not have been called, but was also a stupid one for him to commit. Olmos reaches over Eggleston’s back, and he’s got to sit down for a while now.
After a Tyndale basket, Eggleston takes a nice feed from Grandieri for rwo, but then again Tyndale makes a beautiful backdoor feed to Christmas for a layup.
Bernardini hits a three, and Penn’s cut the lead back to 13.
Oh, man jsut like that, Temple has turned the game on its end. Grandieri gets a steal off on Tyndale, but Egee’s transition layup is thrown off the glass by Tyndale, and Christmas takes the outlet for a wide open three. Then Bernardini is called for a charge, and Glen Miller is livid, yelling at the refs and drawing a technical.
16:17 2nd Half: Temple 45, Penn 29
Schreiber is continuing his great game, muscling his way to an offensive rebound, but he can’t convert on it. He then draws a foul on the next trip, but then misses two free throws. He’s not perfect, but you have to like his aggressive play.
Egee’s stepping it up, now, nailing a three, and then plucking Christmas on the way in. Schreiber draws another foul, but only makes one free throw. Penn shows press, but backs off.
Schreiber comes out of nowhere for a rejection, and then Eggleston throws Tyndale’s shot off the backboard. After a few sloppy possessions, Schreiber hits a jumper.
Stats:
The leading man of the half for Penn was by a long shot Andreas Schreiber. He’s got nine points on four of five shooting. It seems like one of Penn’s big me comes to play every night, you just never know which one, and it’s usually only one. Penn’s guards are having a tough time penetrating (big surprise) or really doing anything on offense. Still, they’ve probably been worse on the other end of the floor. Temple has hit 8 of 12 threes. It’s hard to lose shooting 67 percent from deep.
Grandieri and Bernardini have only got up five shots, and have missed all of them, and combined for two points. Lewis leads Penn with three turnovers.
Christmas and Brooks are already in double-figures for Temple, with Tyndale knocking at the door.
HALFTIME: Temple 41, Penn 22
Eggleston decides he can’t miss any more layups, so he decides to dunk this one home. Temple’s defense is blanketing as Penn tries to take the last shot of the half, but turns it over.
1:07 1st Half: Temple 39, Penn 20
Brooks takes a baseline pass, and nails yet another three from the corner. Penn’s offense is getting better, though, as Egee gets to the line, hitting one.
Brooks is torching Penn, draining another long J. And on the other end, Olmos is owning Lewis, just back in the game. The Spaniard blocks Lewis on his up-and-under move, warranting an “Ole, ole ole, ole!” chant
Egee’s tough defense isn’t enough, as Christmas is money on a three, and gets fouled on yet another. The Quakers are now in big trouble.
Guzman is down on the floor after the play. He is in pain, but walks off the court with some help.
3:15 1st Half: Temple 31, Penn 19
Penn is fronting the post with Schreiber on Olmos, and Grandieri forces a turnover from behind.
Schreiber is really heating up on offense. He gets his defender in the air and hits for an and-1 (to make it 31-17). Schreiber then nails a 15-footer, and Penn is right back in it, down 12.
4:45 1st Half: Temple 31, Penn 17
Schreiber gets into it with a put-back dunk on an Egee miss. Grandieri gets in too deep, though, and kills any momentum with a bad turnover.
Brooks gets Schreiber in the air with a pump fake from the corner, but lets Chris Clark nail the final three.
The Penn bench has plays written out on cards that are shown on offense
The Penn band is finally heard from, they were put up in the rafters, just like in the Villanova game, not quite as bad as that though.
7:26 1st Half: Temple 28, Penn 12
Semaj Inge gets his entire mitt on Kach’s pull-up jumper, and then I believe it was Inge again rejecting Bernardini. Conor Turler makes a nice pass into Eggleston for two, but Olmos answers with an easy deuce.
Ryan Brooks now nails a three in Bernardini’s eye, can’t really fault the defense that time, though.
Temple fans roll out a double-banner: “What is Big 5 +1?” and then shortly after “Your 1st half score vs. FGCU!” Not bad, but you’d think they could make a funnier joke about that.
9:44 1st Half: Temple 23, Penn 10
Penn has played a lot of players so farm and there are currently no starters in. Aron Cohen, Mike Kach and Dan Monckton are at the guards, with Schreiber and Reilly in down low.
Tyndale takes advantage of the skinnier Monckton, and seals him, taking the lob in and getting fouled.
After getting called for a travel (third player so far) Cohen makes a nice feed to Eggleston inside, who scores. Schreiber then hits him for a wide open two, only to see Eggleston botch the open layup. He had a bad angle, and couldn’t adjust.
Temple scores easily on the other end, and the lead is back to 13.
11:47 1st Half: Temple 16, Penn 8
Ouch, Votel travels, for yet another turnover.
After some nice defense by Bernadini on Christmas, Egee turns an offensive rebound into a three.
WOW, Tyndale goes up for a monster dunk, but misses, and is actually called for a charge on Eggleston. Some guts from the freshman.
Temple is jacking up threes and is starting to miss. Those early hits may have given the Owls a false sense of security.
Andreas Schreiber steps up and hits a three from the top of the key, but Olmos answers with a tip-in.
I should note that Harrison Gaines is dressed, but hasn’t played yet. He’s recovering from a hamstring injury. I’d say it would be a bad idea to risk him re-injuring it, but Penn doesn’t play next in about 10 days.
15:37 1st Half: Temple 12, Penn 1
This is just ugly. Lewis gets it inside, and walks, while the perimeter defense is still atrocious. Christmas hits another trey, with barely any defense on him.
Tyndale finally airballs a shot, and Temple’s back to reality.
But the D is still ridiculous - Brennan Votel, recently in for Lewis, gets rejected by Olmos, and the crowd goes crazy.
17:38 1st Half: Temple 9, Penn 0
Lewis get the tap, but begins with a horrible entry pass to Grandieri. Then, with the shot clock winding down, Tyndale drains a three over Grandieri.
Now, Lewis gets called for an illegal screen and Penn is off to a terrible start.
WOW. Christmas nails a three over Grandieri, and some nice perimeter passing later and Guzman makes it 9-0 Owls.
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Welcome to the Pal… Liacouras Center? It is certainly odd to see Fran Dunphy coaching a Big 5 game not at the Palestra.
Starters:
Penn:
G Kevin Egee
G Brian Grandieri
G Tyler Bernardini
F Jack Eggleston
F Cameron Lewis
Temple:
G Mark Tyndale
G Luis Guzman
G Dionte Christmas
F Lavoy Allen
C Sergio Olmos
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January 23rd, 2008 at 11:04 pm
As much as I hate the fact that we went 0-4 in the big 5 and 0-5 if you count Drexel, I’ll let it go as a rebuilding year. The thing I can’t understand is why every game is over by the time the second TV timeout comes around. Why they come out for the first few minutes so poorly game after game after game. Is that on the coach, the captain or everyone?
DP, next time print the game time as 30 minutes before it actually is. Maybe that will help them. Might fill the seats for tipoff too.