Women’s basketball beats St. Joe’s, 80-70

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The Owls (13-8, 6-1 Atlantic Ten Conference) defeated St. Joseph’s 80-70, as three Temple players scored at least 20 points. The Hawks (14-7, 4-3 A-10) hosted the Owls at the Hagan Arena, which is also the arena for the  A-10 Tournment held on March 2-5.

Senior guards Shey Peddy and Kristen McCarthy scored 26 and 21 points, respectively, while junior center Victoria Macaulay added a career-high 21 points. The trio of scorers marked the first time in program history that three players scored 20 or more points in a single game since 1989.

 In addition, senior guard BJ Williams had nine assists for the Owls. The Maryland native reached a milestone 100 assists for the season, which is a career-high for her during a single season.

Owls take care of Fordham, 78-60

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The men’s basketball team improved its Atlantic Ten Conference record to 5-2 on Wednesday night with a 78-60 victory against Fordham.

Redshirt-senior guard Ramone Moore and junior guard Khalif Wyatt led the scoring for the Owls, with 25 and 24 points, respectively.

Wyatt led the charge early in the first half, scoring the team’s first 10 points and 16 overall. Moore took over in the second half with 20 points and finished the game with a career-high six three-pointers.

Temple (16-5) has now won four conference games in a row, and the past three by a combined margin of 58.

Check back with The Temple News later for full game coverage.

Women’s basketball defeats Charlotte, 65-55

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Senior guards Kristen McCarthy and Shey Peddy carried the Owls on their backs Sunday afternoon at the Liacouras Center to give the women’s basketball team their fifth straight win, defeating Charlotte 65-55.

The senior duo scored 22 of the Owls first 24 points to push the team out to a 17-point lead early in the first half and never looked back. McCarthy finished with a game-high 23 and Peddy with 22.

McCarthy also collected a game-high ten rebounds, earning her fourth double-double of the year. She also led the team with four steals in 38 minutes of action for the starting forward.

Peddy added to her overall impressive statistics by dishing out six assists, grabbing seven rebounds, and connecting on four shots from beyond the arc.

The key stat of the game was the turnover battle as the Owls forced 20 while only committing 10 themselves. They also outscored the 49ers 20-6 in points off turnovers. Temple didn’t get any points off the bench as the reserves missed on all four field goal attempts but it didn’t matter as Peddy and McCarthy were already in double figures in scoring in the first ten minutes.

The Owls jumped out to a 24-7 lead thanks to some hot shooting but the 49ers were able to close the defecit to seven by the half. Peddy and McCarthy finished the half scoring 38 of the team’s 41 points combined. Peddy hit seven of eight from the field in the first half.

Both teams hot shooting cooled off in the second half with Temple and Charlotte shooting 29 and 23 percent, respectively. Charlotte did cut the lead down to four with a three-pointer to start the half but Temple countered with an 11-0 run to stretch it back out to 15, 52-37. The 49ers made a small counter themselves outscoring the Owls 8-2 over the next few minutes to bring it to 54-45 around the halfway mark of the half. Two lay-ups gave the Owls a 13-point lead but both teams failed to score for the next several minutes. An 8-0 run by Charlotte made it 60-53 with three and a half minutes to go but it wouldn’t get any closer than that.

The win pushed Temple to 12-8 overall and 5-1 in conference play. That puts them in third place in the Atlantic 10 conference behind Dayton and St. Bonaventure. The Owls will play inner-city rival St. Josephs next on Wednesday, February 1.

-Brandon Stoneburg

 

South Africa SCT Study Away Program Suspended

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The inaugural South Africa 2011 summer program, led by journalism professor Dr. Shenid Bhayroo, achieved more than Temple’s SCT ever thought possible.

Eleven journalism and research students conducted stories, produced news videos and documentaries, while completely embracing an entirely new culture more than 15,000 miles away.

News stories were published on the Department of Journalism’s news website, www.philadelphianeighborhoods.com, and the series itself was a finalist for the EPPY (Editor & Publisher) award in the Best College/University Journalistic or Documentary Report category. Research students presented final projects at the Global Temple Conference and student documentary work is still planned to be broadcasted on TUTV.

According to the South Africa Press Release issued this week by the dean’s office, Bhayroo and director of study away programs Erin Palmer, “conflicting commitments” have suspended the program for summer 2012.

The majority of South Africa Study Away alumni — me being one of them — are disappointed at the thought of suspending the program, and even have written several letters to the coordinators expressing our feelings toward the unfortunate decision. It truly was a life-changing opportunity that has given us so much real-life field experience. It is sad to see others unable to have the same chance.

I have high hopes that SCT reincorporates the program for 2013. It is too good to lose.

SCT South Africa students in Soweto, 2011

Video of raucous arrest involving Temple police surfaces online

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A video of a scuffle near 16th Street and Montgomery Avenue involving two Temple Police officers has surfaced online.

In the video, Temple officers are seen attempting to apprehend a male, as he fights them off and a few fellow onlookers attempt to assist him. The officers are taken to the ground as they attempt to arrest the specific male. One officer eventually draws a gun.

Nearing the end of the video, fellow bike officers arrive at the scene.

Details on the website suggest the the crowd surrounding the incident, and the male arrested, is of high school age.

Titled “North Philly Man Retaliates After Cops Put Hands On Him 1st After Being Bumped With A Cop Bike!? (Points His Gun At High School Students),” the video, uploaded today to worldstarhiphop.com, has already received more than 55,000 views, according to the website.

The Temple News is awaiting comment from Campus Safety Services regarding the details of the arrest and the uploading of the video.

[UPDATE 1/26 5:04 p.m.: The incident shown in the video occurred after the apprehended man, Rodney Ganbrell , 19, punched an officer in the face, police have said. Click here for the full story.]

Owls pick up A-10 win against Charlotte

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The men’s basketball team improved its Atlantic Ten Conference record to 3-2 with a 79-57 win against Charlotte Wednesday night.

Redshirt-senior guard Ramone Moore led all scorers with 18 points in 30 minutes. Sophomore guard Aaron Brown scored 16 points, junior guard Khalif Wyatt scored 12 points and added six assists and five steals and senior guard Juan Fernandez scored 10 points and had six assists.

Graduate center Micheal Eric scored six points and grabbed nine rebounds in 17 minutes, the most significant playing time he’s received since returning from an injured kneecap that kept him out of 13 games.

The Owls jumped out to a 17-1 lead early and never relinquished it. There has been four combined lead changes in Temple’s last three wins.

 

Lose the roommate, win a prize

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Earlier today, Gawker posted a competition for all readers, roommates and resentful ex’s to submit their worst roommate stories in return for a prize. According to the writer, your prize could be a super-tricked out million dollar apartment or a slightly-expensive bottle of booze. Either way, good deal!

But, don’t get your twin sheets in a jumble just yet, my sweet cooped-up cohabitants; there are some rules:

  • Roommate stories must be submitted as a comment to the post; click here to sign up if you’re not already.
  • Stories must be about roommates, not family members or significant others.
  • Brevity is the soul of wit.
  • Submit by noon, Thursday Jan. 26.
  • For the full contest rules, click here.

 

 

Half-staff for Joe Paterno?

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When I got news that Governor Corbett ordered the state’s flag lowered to half-staff in memory of Joe Paterno, I questioned myself, when it is appropriate to fly to flag half-staff?

And there is actually a flag code that exists.

“Section 7m of the Flag Code authorizes a governor to half-staff the US flag upon the death of a present or former official of the government of the state, or the death of a member of the Armed Forces from that state who dies while serving on active duty.”

So there’s a difference: According to Flog Code, the US flag can’t be lowered to half-staffed, but the state flag can be lowered at the Corbett’s discretion.

Do you recommend that the state’s flag be flown half-staff in his memory?

Kierra Bussey can be reached at kierrajb@gmail.com.