The men’s basketball team defeated Massachusetts 90-88 in overtime on Wednesday night, clinching the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Ten Conference Tournament and at least a share of the A-10 regular season title. Temple (23-6, 12-3 A-10) honored graduate center Micheal Eric, redshirt-senior guard Ramone Moore, senior guard Juan Fernandez and senior guard Jake [...]
The Temple Board of Trustees athletics committee meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. today that was reportedly going to include discussions about adding Temple as an all-sports member to the Big East, effective the Fall 2012 season, has been canceled. Assistant Vice President of University Communications Ray Betzner said there was no stated reason for canceling [...]
Senior guard Shey Peddy has been named the Atlatntic Ten Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the year, becoming the first player to win both awards since Temple’s own Candace Dupree did so in 2005 and 2006. Peddy finished second in the conference with 17 points per game, second in [...]
A crate of mail arrived at The Temple News office this afternoon. While this is normally a very uneventful occurance, today’s batch of mail included the following: -An unsigned letter in which the author calls Americans “totally stupid people who elect moronic criminals.” The author, who TTN assumes is Russian, describes his uncle who “died [...]
Temple and the Big East are in talks to have the school join the conference for all sports as early as next school year, according to a report by The New York Times. Temple, which currently plays football in the Mid-American Conference and all other sports in the Atlantic Ten Conference, was a founding member [...]
The men’s basketball team was ranked No. 22 in the country by both the Associated Press and the USA Today/Coaches’ Poll on Monday. Temple (21-5, 10-2 Atlantic Ten Conference) has won 10 games in a row and are in first place in the A-10. The Owls have won nine conference games in a row after [...]
Women’s basketball vs. Massachusetts: 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Liacouras Center Entering tonight’s game with an eight-game winning, the Owls (15-8, 8-1 A-10) will face a Massachusetts team that is 6-18 overall and 1-8 in the conference. The game is designated as a Play 4Kay game, which raises awareness for breast cancer in memory of the [...]
Tyler’s Molly Denisevicz won a competition to create a design that will discourage birds from flying into windows. Her pattern is a piece of French music called The Cardinal. For more on the “Bird’s Eye View” competition, pick up The Temple News on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
A 31-year-old student who attended Temple Ambler admitted to using software to hack professors’ passwords last spring, the Washington Post reports. Edwin Kim reportedly used keystroke logging software to obtain the passwords of some professors, in order to boost his grades. One professor reportedly could not enter the system, and later found Kim’s grade had [...]
This Saturday, Feb. 11 show your Temple spirit by attending the basketball doubleheader at the Liacouras Center. Both Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams will be playing, with the Women’s team starting at 5:30 p.m. against UMass. The Men’s team will take on A-10 rival Xavier at 9 p.m. in a nationally televised game on ESPN2. [...]
