Friday, February 18, 2000
Temple revs up for UC
BY RUSTY MILLER
AP Sports Writer
DAYTON, Ohio — Temple dominated the inside to beat Dayton 64-58 Thursday night, but coach John Chaney isn't expecting a similar performance in the second half of the Owls' road swing through Ohio. On Sunday, No. 15 Temple faces No. 1 Cincinnati.
“I don't want anyone shooting around Kenyon Martin,” Chaney said with a laugh, referring to the Bearcats' shot-swatting center. “I want to win the game 2-0. If we get the ball, I'm going to tell them just to hold on to it.”
Quincy Wadley didn't hold onto it against Dayton, hitting a 3-pointer and scoring on a four-point play on consecutive trips down the court to push the Owls to their 10th straight win.
Wadley, who finished with 17 points, scored 11 of the Owls' last 13 points in the showdown between the Atlantic 10's divisional leaders.
“We made key defensive stops down the stretch which in turn jump-started our offense,” Wadley said.
After Dayton (18-6, 8-4) cut the lead to 51-50 on Yuanta Holland's dunk with 4:05 left, Wadley nailed a 3-pointer from the right wing. The Flyers missed a 3-point shot, but Wadley came right back to swish another 3 from the left corner and was fouled, turning it into a four-point play for a 58-50 lead.
Dayton never got closer than four again, with Wadley hitting 4-of-5 free throws in the final 53 seconds.
“Those were two big 3-point shots,” Dayton coach Oliver Purnell said. “Our defense let us down at critical points coming down the stretch.”
Mark Karcher also had 17 points with Lamont Barnes adding 10 points for Temple (19-4, 11-1), which has won 13 of its last 14 games. The Owls' only loss in that span came when St. Bonaventure hit 13-of-27 3-pointers in a 57-56 victory a month ago.
Dayton tried the same tactic, relying almost exclusively on perimeter shooting against the Owls, who came in allowing fewer points per game (53.8) than any team in the country. The Flyers hit 11-of-26 3-pointers — and only 8-of-22 shots inside the arc.
“The thing I have to give my team credit for is that they closed off the inside,” Chaney said. “We shot well. I think that's the most telling thing for me. I try to measure us in terms of how we do when we don't shoot well. When you shoot well, everyone looks good.”
Temple outscored the Flyers 18-0 in the paint while taking a 29-25 halftime lead.
Tony Stanley scored 19 points and had 10 rebounds, Brooks Hall had 15 points — all on 3-pointers — and David Morris scored 11 for Dayton.
Asked if he was satisfied to take 26 shots behind and only 22 inside the 3-point line, Purnell said, “I'd take 126 3-pointers if they were good ones.”
Temple scored the first basket of the second half to take a 31-25 lead — matching its largest of the game — but Dayton regained the lead at 34-33 on a Stanley dunk. The teams traded the lead 10 times over the next six minutes until Juan “Pepe” Sanchez hit his first basket of the game, a 3-pointer from the right wing, for a 46-44 Temple lead at the 11:32 mark.
Sanchez followed with a 12-footer before Lynn Greer stole a pass, drove the length of the court and flipped a pass back to Karcher who hit the open 3-pointer on the fastbreak to make it 51-44 at the 8:22 mark.
Dayton didn't score for 51/2 minutes until Stanley made a rebound follow, Morris hit two foul shots on Sanchez's fourth foul and Holland dunked to set the stage for Wadley's heroics in the closing moments.
Wadley said he wouldn't be surprised to meet the Flyers again.
“We hope to get to see them in the A-10 finals,” he said.
TEMPLE (64)
fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
Karcher 38 6-15 0-0 1-2 1 1 17
Barnes 27 5-9 0-1 0-2 1 3 10
Lyde 29 4-5 0-0 5-10 1 1 8
P Sanchez 31 2-5 0-0 1-6 6 4 5
Wadley 30 5-11 5-8 0-2 1 2 17
Greer 21 1-7 0-0 1-1 2 1 2
K Sanders 20 1-2 3-3 3-6 2 1 5
Rollerson 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
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TOTALS 200 24-54 8-12 11-29 14 13 64
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Percentages: FG-.444, FT-.667. 3-Point Goals:
8-20, .400 (Karcher 5-9, P Sanchez 1-2, Wadley
2-5, Greer 0-4). Team rebounds: None. Blocked
shots: 3 (Barnes, Lyde, K Sanders). Turnovers: 8
(Greer 2, P Sanchez 2, Barnes, Karcher, Wadley).
Steals: 4 (Greer, Karcher, P Sanchez, Wadley).
DAYTON (58)
fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
Green 17 0-1 1-2 2-3 0 2 1
Hall 33 5-13 0-0 1-5 4 4 15
M Ashman 36 3-6 0-0 2-5 0 3 6
Stanley 36 5-11 6-8 3-10 4 4 19
Young 21 0-6 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
Morris 30 3-7 2-2 0-2 4 0 11
Holland 23 3-4 0-0 1-4 0 2 6
Cooper 4 0-0 0-0 1-3 0 0 0
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TOTALS 200 19-48 9-12 10-32 14 15 58
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Percentages: FG-.396, FT-.750. 3-Point Goals:
11-26, .423 (Hall 5-12, Stanley 3-4, Young 0-3,
Morris 3-7). Team rebounds: 1. Blocked shots: 4
(Stanley 2, Hall, Cooper). Turnovers: 14 (Young
4, Stanley 3, Holland 2, Morris 2, Green, Hall, M
Ashman). Steals: 2 (Hall, Stanley).
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Temple 29 35 - 64
Dayton 25 33 - 58
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Technical fouls: None. A: 13,553. Officials:
Michael Kitts, Gary Bova, Jody Silvester.
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