So, I figured I check out the NET today after last night's game. SMU dropped one spot but still in the top 50. Temple dropped one spot too. How does this make any sense?

Rough so far…bad offensive sets

This analysis is not scientific and incredibly reductive.

Having consistently won this year taking Temple unders, I looked up the stats. We're tied for 19th in the country in most often hitting unders at 65.2%. The under has also hit 6 of the past 7 games.

No one on here needed to wait for Vegas to tell us our defense is good and our offense is bad, but it's interesting that Vegas is slow to comprehend just how good our defense/bad our offense is. I guess it's reasonable, though, since many of us still seemed surprised game-by-game.

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Here we go, new year, full year. Go Owls

Not Temple related but a new book on Coach K has some interesting info (and will likely be the big news in college b-ball for a day or so)......

No path for Cincinnati.

2022 Super Bowl

How bout those Owls?!?!

I know we are all waiting on news on Williams & Dunn, hopefully the long layoff bears fruit.

Does anyone have any info on whats actually going on with Jake?

I have to tell you that early impressions from the guys are:

1. Football is fun again

2. Workouts are hard and they like that.

3. Energy is contagious. The staff brings it every day.

4. Everyone is excited to play again.

5. Night and day from what they have been enduring over the past couple of years,

I like it........

Marc Jackson helps explain where the Temple Owls are right now | Mike Jensen​

Temple is 16th in Division I in adjusted field-goal percentage defense, and 357th among 358 teams in game experience. That’s the stat Jackson wants you to remember.

Thoughts? This team is becoming must watch TV again. Finish 5-3 and win a conf tourney game we finish 19-11. We’ve only won 18 games once over the past 6 years…. to put into perspective how good this team has become (or how bad it’s been).

Go Owls

They turned it over three of the last four possessions. You leave a bad team in the game long enough and they will beat you. Temple not a great shooting team but foul shooting also terrible again. This team needs to practice attacking the basket and knowing How to pass out to a three point shooter . Turnovers all night with attack and kicks . They are a young team but worst loss of the year .

What's up with all these negative numbers next to Temple these days?

Here's @Javon Edmonds' game story from this afternoon.

Temple by 12

@Cayden Steele talked to South Carolina transfer Dominick Hill, who is already enrolled at Temple, about why he chose the Owls.

...any idea if AAC and the school's are working to re-schedule any of them?

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Happy National Signing Day eve, everyone! Here's what you can expect from us in terms of coverage.

1. We'll have a story for you tomorrow morning with everything you need to know about who's expected to sign a National Letter of Intent with the Owls on National Signing Day.

Regarding the signees, a couple of things of note that we would prefer to keep here for subscribers:

-- Houston transfer James Faminu remains committed to Temple but will not be signing a letter of intent tomorrow as we understand it. He is expected to enroll in May.

-- Imhotep's Khalif Kemp could sign his letter of intent soon, but it probably will not be tomorrow, we've been told by multiple sources.

-- Some of you may know this if you've been following along, but Texas A&M transfer Darvon Hubbard, South Carolina transfer Dominick Hill and Garden City Community College linebacker Jacob Hollins are already enrolled at Temple. They will be announced as signees tomorrow.

2. Stan Drayton is speaking with reporters about the Owls' 2022 class at 4 p.m. We'll have a story from that session with reporters, and some of that audio will be included in this week's episode of The Scoop.

3. Keep your eyes peeled for a thread for mailbag questions for our Signing Day podcast, which we will record around 4:30 or so, whenever Drayton is finished speaking with reporters.

If we have any more updates, we'll post them here.

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He's back from Colorado State!