I'll just leave this here ...

We're recording at 2 p.m. tomorrow in order to get this week's podcast out by drive time before the holiday.

Thank you as always for listening!

Been almost a week since @NorthBroad posted about the state of Temple basketball. I imagine him reading the comments like…

As I just mentioned on the basketball board, we're recording at 2 p.m. tomorrow in order to get a podcast out before the holiday.

We'll recap the Cincinnati loss, preview ECU and talk about what's ahead for Stan Drayton, his staff, recruiting and everything that's to come in his second season on North Broad Street.

If you have mailbag questions, please drop them in here and we'll answer them on the podcast.

Thank you all for listening and best wishes to all of you for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Who is ready to get hurt again?

Figured I’d fire it up

Saturday's crowd was listed at 26,681. I'm sure it's legit on paper. I guess a lot of season-ticket-holders were no-shows.

But there were half that many people in the stands, and I'm being generous with that guestimate. I get it, we came into the game 2-3 and have been and up-and-down team. Plus East Carolina isn't a sexy opponent, but ...

As a lifelong die-hard Temple football fan, it's sad that there is so much apathy for the program.

If there's another thread I can post this under, I didn't see it, so I'm starting this here. I hope McKie coaches to end this team. I hope the kids come out throwing haymakers. More importantly, I hope they spend the whole second half throwing haymakers. Win by 15. This Vandy team just lost at home to Southern Miss by 12. A win is a win and I'll take it however we get it but man would a dominant victory in this third game go a long way to erase the stench of Wagner send a message about who we are.

I talked to West Catholic small forward Zion Stanford earlier today about his official visit to Temple, his upcoming visit to Boston College and his decision, which should be coming next month.

Once again, we're here for you with The Scoop mailbag. Vent, ask questions, send us something off-topic if you want. Either way, get them in by 4:30 p.m. today, and we'll answer them on this week's podcast.

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With just two games remaining in Temple's season, I thought it would be worthwhile to check in on where players stand from a redshirt eligibility perspective. Entering the season, 25 scholarship players still had the option to redshirt and retain a year of eligibility. From the looks of it, 13 of those players are likely to receive a redshirt. As a reminder, a player no longer has to be injured to receive a redshirt, they just can't play more than four games in a season.

I've broken the players into two groups below, guys that have no chance at a redshirt due to playing too much and players that are likely going to redshirt. For the players in the first group that return next season, they'll still have the opportunity to redshirt in future years.

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No chance at a redshirt​

Likely redshirts​

We'll wrap up conversation about the Houston loss, preview Saturday's game against No. 22 Cincinnati and discuss anything else you want to put on the agenda on this week's episode of The Scoop. Please get your mailbag questions in here by 4:30 p.m. today and we'll answer them on the podcast.

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Why would you on last possession in the half have White on the floor let alone take last shot? You have your best scorers with 19 seconds left out of a timeout

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So I saw this was mentioned elsewhere, and I wanted to elevate it to its own thread — mostly to get it the attention it deserves by those who can hopefully get something done about it.

The last two games have appeared very dark on TV and the colors have even been off. At first I thought it was my TV, and changed the brightness setting to check. Nope that didn’t help much. The Cherry on the court was also extremely dull too.
Later, I saw others post about this in various places. I also saw clips of the game on YouTube and it’s very obviously dark.

I’m not sure who controls the camera— if it’s TU or the network but something should be done about this. It’s absolutely terrible and it’s new. This was not a thing before.

Love seeing this type of stuff...

According to the owlscoop story they posted… Jamille said he was better than Eric Dixon. Right from the jump. So he just went at him. And wanted to kill him.

Dixon is averaging 18 and 6 a game? And was a top 100 kid.

And Jamille was right.

(Adjusts glasses) Is this Temple?

Just checking to see if anyone knows if the game is on television this evening as I can’t make it to the center.

Thanks in advance!

Have a good night! Stay safe!

“Go Owls”

When you have a true back to basket and face up center then you can really spread the floor . He will need to learn where the open man is on double teams , but it just opens up the court on our set offense . He will need to shoot 70 percent or higher at foul line to really be effective .

Villanova 0 for 16 from 3 point line in first half. No wonder they were driving inside all night versus Owls

Anyone not sold on Warner still ?

Has that been determined yet?

We've played Wagner one other time. We won 70-62 on 12/01/2012. I don't remember this game at all. Was the Jake O'Brien year. Khalif Wyatt went for 26 points. Scootie Randall added 10 pts, 9 boards, and 4 assists. The win got us to 5-0 on the season.

Here's to a future where we care about all this stuff more than we have in the past 5 years. I'm very much looking forward to getting out and supporting.