Temple University Athletics
Friday, March 18
Brooklyn, N.Y.
3:10 p.m.
Temple University
vs
Iowa
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Men's Basketball Prepares For Iowa in NCAA Tournament First Round Friday
3.15.16 | Men's Basketball
PHILADELPHIA - Temple men's basketball is making its 32nd all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament this week, with the 10th-seeded Owls slated to face seventh-seeded and #25/24 Iowa on Friday afternoon in Brooklyn, N.Y. The action will take place at the Barclays Center, and the Owls will play at approximately 3:10 p.m. (truTV/1210 AM WPHT) following the conclusion of second-seeded Villanova against 15th-seeded UNC Asheville.Â
Headlines
• Temple is making its 32nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament and seventh in head coach Fran Dunphy's 10 years with the program. The Owls' last NCAA Tournament berth came in 2013, and they advanced to the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament a year ago.
• Dunphy, named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for a second year in a row in 2015-16, has the 12th-most NCAA appearances of any active Division I coach (16, Penn & Temple, 1993-2016).
• The Owls' all-time NCAA record is 33-31 in 31 appearances. In 2013, the Owls' last NCAA Tournament, ninth-seeded Temple defeated eighth-seeded NC State  76-72 before falling to top-seeded Indiana, 58-52.
• Temple advanced to the American Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals for a second year in a row, where the Owls lost to eventual tournament champ UConn after beating USF 79-62 in the quarterfinals.Â
• Senior Jaylen Bond, who led Temple in both of its American Tournament games, was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team. He notched his 10th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds in the semifinal loss after also scoring 17 in Temple's quarterfinal win. With 8.3 rebounds per game, Bond leads the team and ranks fifth in the conference.
• With the Owls' win at Tulane on March 6, they earned the American Athletic Conference regular season title outright with a record of 14-4.Â
• Temple's regular season conference title was its first since 2012 in the Atlantic 10, and its 14th all-time shared or outright regular season conference title since joining the East Coast Conference in the 1974-75 season.
• Senior guard Quenton DeCosey was a unanimous selection to the 2015-16 American Athletic Conference First Team. DeCosey is Temple's leading scorer with 15.6 points per game, ranking third in the conference, and has scored in double figures in 29 of 32 contests. He has scored 1,487 points to rank 18th all-time in program history. When he scores at least 15 points, the Owls are 14-1 this season.
• Sophomore Obi Enechionyia, who is averaging 14.6 ppg over the last 14 games, has been the Owls' leading scorer in four of the last seven games.
• Temple's win at Tulane was its 20th of the season, marking the 36th time in program history the team has won at least 20 games. Dunphy has now led the Owls to eight 20-win seasons in his 10 years at the helm.
• The Owls finished the regular season with 11 home wins, and have now won 10 or more games at home in eight of the last nine seasons.Â
• Overall, the Owls have won 13 of their last 17 games including a streak of five straight.
• With a win vs. #8 SMU on Jan. 24, Temple has now taken down a Top 10 team in seven of the last eight seasons.
• The Owls lead the nation in fewest turnovers per game at 9.2. They have recorded single digit turnovers in 20 of 32 games, tallying as few as five (vs. Delaware on Nov. 29, at USF on Jan. 31 and vs. Memphis on March 3).
• The Owls have three regular-season wins over Top 25 teams, the most since 1999-00. This season also marks the first since 1998 that the Owls have beaten two Top 25 opponents on the road. Temple has beaten at least one ranked opponent for nine straight seasons.
Temple vs. Iowa
• Temple and Iowa have met just twice before, with the most recent meeting coming in the first game of the 1990-91 season.
• The Hawkeyes have won both games, the first of which was in the NCAA Final Four in 1956. Iowa beat Temple 83-76 that season in the national semifinals, hosted by Northwestern.
• The second meeting was the season opener in 1990-91, which Iowa won narrowly on its home court by a score of 73-71. The game was part of the 16-team Preaseason NIT, and John Chaney's Temple team was ranked 19th at the time of the contest.
• Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery is 0-2 all-time against Temple. He was the head coach at Lehigh when the Mountain Hawks lost 87-73 to the Owls in the NCAA First Round on March 18, 1988, and he also coached a Siena team that lost 73-69 to Temple on Nov. 21, 2009.
• Current Temple Assistant to the Head Coach/Player Development Dave Duke was an assistant coach under McCaffery at Lehigh before taking over as head coach in 1989.
Temple in the NCAA Tournament
Overall Record: Temple is 33-31 (32nd appearance)
Record vs. 2016 Field: Temple is 5-8
First Round: Temple is 14-8*, last 2013 (won vs. (8) NC State)
Second Round: Temple is 5-9*, last 2013 (lost vs. (1) Indiana)
Round of 16: Temple is 5-0*, last 2001
Elite 8: Temple is 0-5*, last 2001
Final Fours: Two - 1956, 1958
*Records since field expanded to 64 teams
• This is the 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance for the Owls, who own a 33-31 record in tourney play.
• Temple has been a 10 seed twice before in the NCAA Tournament, in 1991 when the Owls made an Elite Eight run, and in 1995 when they lost in the First Round.
• Temple's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament was in 1944, and the Owls have had 16 players make NCAA All-Tournament Teams.
• The Owls are placed in the South Region for a fourth time ever this year. Temple's last Elite Eight run came out of the South Region in 2001.
• Temple is 5-8 this season against the other 67 teams in the 2016 NCAA Tournament field.
• Temple has advanced to the Elite Eight seven times (last, 2001) and the Final Four twice (1956, 1958).
• Fran Dunphy has taken his team to the NCAA Tournament 16 times in 27 seasons as a head coach (7
w/Temple, 9 w/Penn).
• Dunphy's 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament are the 12th-most of all active Division I coaches.
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Headlines
• Temple is making its 32nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament and seventh in head coach Fran Dunphy's 10 years with the program. The Owls' last NCAA Tournament berth came in 2013, and they advanced to the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament a year ago.
• Dunphy, named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for a second year in a row in 2015-16, has the 12th-most NCAA appearances of any active Division I coach (16, Penn & Temple, 1993-2016).
• The Owls' all-time NCAA record is 33-31 in 31 appearances. In 2013, the Owls' last NCAA Tournament, ninth-seeded Temple defeated eighth-seeded NC State  76-72 before falling to top-seeded Indiana, 58-52.
• Temple advanced to the American Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals for a second year in a row, where the Owls lost to eventual tournament champ UConn after beating USF 79-62 in the quarterfinals.Â
• Senior Jaylen Bond, who led Temple in both of its American Tournament games, was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team. He notched his 10th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds in the semifinal loss after also scoring 17 in Temple's quarterfinal win. With 8.3 rebounds per game, Bond leads the team and ranks fifth in the conference.
• With the Owls' win at Tulane on March 6, they earned the American Athletic Conference regular season title outright with a record of 14-4.Â
• Temple's regular season conference title was its first since 2012 in the Atlantic 10, and its 14th all-time shared or outright regular season conference title since joining the East Coast Conference in the 1974-75 season.
• Senior guard Quenton DeCosey was a unanimous selection to the 2015-16 American Athletic Conference First Team. DeCosey is Temple's leading scorer with 15.6 points per game, ranking third in the conference, and has scored in double figures in 29 of 32 contests. He has scored 1,487 points to rank 18th all-time in program history. When he scores at least 15 points, the Owls are 14-1 this season.
• Sophomore Obi Enechionyia, who is averaging 14.6 ppg over the last 14 games, has been the Owls' leading scorer in four of the last seven games.
• Temple's win at Tulane was its 20th of the season, marking the 36th time in program history the team has won at least 20 games. Dunphy has now led the Owls to eight 20-win seasons in his 10 years at the helm.
• The Owls finished the regular season with 11 home wins, and have now won 10 or more games at home in eight of the last nine seasons.Â
• Overall, the Owls have won 13 of their last 17 games including a streak of five straight.
• With a win vs. #8 SMU on Jan. 24, Temple has now taken down a Top 10 team in seven of the last eight seasons.
• The Owls lead the nation in fewest turnovers per game at 9.2. They have recorded single digit turnovers in 20 of 32 games, tallying as few as five (vs. Delaware on Nov. 29, at USF on Jan. 31 and vs. Memphis on March 3).
• The Owls have three regular-season wins over Top 25 teams, the most since 1999-00. This season also marks the first since 1998 that the Owls have beaten two Top 25 opponents on the road. Temple has beaten at least one ranked opponent for nine straight seasons.
Temple vs. Iowa
• Temple and Iowa have met just twice before, with the most recent meeting coming in the first game of the 1990-91 season.
• The Hawkeyes have won both games, the first of which was in the NCAA Final Four in 1956. Iowa beat Temple 83-76 that season in the national semifinals, hosted by Northwestern.
• The second meeting was the season opener in 1990-91, which Iowa won narrowly on its home court by a score of 73-71. The game was part of the 16-team Preaseason NIT, and John Chaney's Temple team was ranked 19th at the time of the contest.
• Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery is 0-2 all-time against Temple. He was the head coach at Lehigh when the Mountain Hawks lost 87-73 to the Owls in the NCAA First Round on March 18, 1988, and he also coached a Siena team that lost 73-69 to Temple on Nov. 21, 2009.
• Current Temple Assistant to the Head Coach/Player Development Dave Duke was an assistant coach under McCaffery at Lehigh before taking over as head coach in 1989.
Temple in the NCAA Tournament
Overall Record: Temple is 33-31 (32nd appearance)
Record vs. 2016 Field: Temple is 5-8
First Round: Temple is 14-8*, last 2013 (won vs. (8) NC State)
Second Round: Temple is 5-9*, last 2013 (lost vs. (1) Indiana)
Round of 16: Temple is 5-0*, last 2001
Elite 8: Temple is 0-5*, last 2001
Final Fours: Two - 1956, 1958
*Records since field expanded to 64 teams
• This is the 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance for the Owls, who own a 33-31 record in tourney play.
• Temple has been a 10 seed twice before in the NCAA Tournament, in 1991 when the Owls made an Elite Eight run, and in 1995 when they lost in the First Round.
• Temple's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament was in 1944, and the Owls have had 16 players make NCAA All-Tournament Teams.
• The Owls are placed in the South Region for a fourth time ever this year. Temple's last Elite Eight run came out of the South Region in 2001.
• Temple is 5-8 this season against the other 67 teams in the 2016 NCAA Tournament field.
• Temple has advanced to the Elite Eight seven times (last, 2001) and the Final Four twice (1956, 1958).
• Fran Dunphy has taken his team to the NCAA Tournament 16 times in 27 seasons as a head coach (7
w/Temple, 9 w/Penn).
• Dunphy's 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament are the 12th-most of all active Division I coaches.
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