NCAA Tournament March Madness Bubble Watch: Temple

NCAA Tournament March Madness

#158 Temple

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Temple's résumé is built on comfortable wins over La Salle and Delaware St and a gritty neutral victory over Princeton that shows the team can close tight games away from its building, but that promise is undercut by ugly neutral losses to UC San Diego and Rhode Island, a heavy road defeat at Villanova, and a narrow neutral setback to St Joseph's PA. An offense that can put up points has carried the Owls while a leaky defense explains the big swings and the inability to finish against top competition on the road. The remainder of the schedule hands them clear chances to repair the profile with home dates against Rice, Tulane, and Charlotte and true road tests at Davidson, Memphis, and Wichita State that would all move the needle; until Temple picks up a signature road or neutral win and limits further bad losses the résumé will read as one still searching for a defining moment.

Date	Opponent	Ranking	Outcome
11/5	Delaware St	354	W83-65
11/11	La Salle	263	W90-63
11/15	Boston College	139	L76-71
11/19	Hofstra	108	W81-76
11/24	(N)UC San Diego	84	L91-76
11/25	(N)Princeton	269	W79-75
11/26	(N)Rhode Island	103	L90-75
12/1	@Villanova	35	L74-56
12/6	(N)St Joseph's PA	179	L70-69
12/14	St Francis PA	361	W95-67
12/18	@Davidson	120	28%
12/22	Princeton	269	80%
12/31	@Charlotte	200	48%
1/3	UT San Antonio	285	81%
1/7	East Carolina	288	82%
1/14	@Memphis	75	16%
1/18	FL Atlantic	117	49%
1/21	@Rice	210	50%
1/24	@UT San Antonio	285	63%
1/28	Charlotte	200	70%
1/31	South Florida	86	38%
2/7	@East Carolina	288	64%
2/11	@Tulane	209	50%
2/15	North Texas	136	56%
2/18	UAB	115	48%
2/21	@Wichita St	96	23%
2/25	@FL Atlantic	117	27%
3/1	Rice	210	72%
3/4	Tulane	209	72%
3/5	Tulane	209	72%
3/8	@Tulsa	73	16%