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Re-do from the canceled COVID trip.

Let’s just get it started 😂😂😂

1. PSU, 6-0
2. JMU, 6-0
3. RU, 5-2
4. UM, 5-2
5. WVU, 4-2
6. SYR, 4-3
7. Navy, 3-3
8. VaTech, 3-4
9. Pitt, 2-4
10. Army, 2-4

• PSU is thinking CFP
• JMU is thinking NY6, they are the favorite in every remaining game
• RU goes bowling w/a win over Carey and Indy next week. Everyone on this site loves to throw shade on RU, but they have quietly arrived in the Big10
• UCan't, UMess, and TU have played the season like "hot garbage"

Alright, let's do this.

PPG (let's do top 3 for this one):
RPG:
APG:
SPG:
BPG:
Total wins:
Starting lineup for the first game of the AAC tourney:
Surprise player:
One hot take/bold prediction:

And then the fun ones:

Big 5 wins:
Average attendance:
Date of the first Fire Fish thread:
Date of the first suggestion to "play the young guys":
Will Fish get a tech this year?

Temple women's basketball coach Diane Richardson will be joining us on The Scoop this week, so we're taking mailbag questions for her and for the podcast as a whole.

In addition to talking to Diane, we'll talk about the Dillon Battie verbal commitment and any other recruiting news that might break tomorrow, so we'll have plenty of hoops talk to go around.

So if you have something for us or for Diane, please drop it in here by noon tomorrow and we'll get to as many questions as we can on the podcast.

Thanks as always for listening!

It was one game. The opponents will certainly get tougher, and Temple is still a few pieces away from where Adam Fisher wants the Owls to be.

But the vibe around the program was tangibly different last night.

at USF - noon on ESPN+
at UAB - 3 p.m. on ESPN+
Memphis - noon on ESPN

Today's win vs Navy was well-earned by a gritty team.

Was it flawless? No, but these Owls got back off the mat after the turnovers and executed.

There still are many areas that need work, but I am proud of how these guys played today.

GO OWLS!

Per a source familiar with his recruitment, Jalen Rougier-Roane, a class of 2025 guard who plays at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., will be on campus today for an unofficial visit. He picked up an offer from Temple back in September and also has offers from programs like Penn State, Xavier and Providence.

Jalen's mother, Margarete Rougier, played basketball at Temple from 1989 to 1993 and was later inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame in 2000.

Rougier-Roane, one of the top players in the DMV, was part of a Sidwell program that won the D.C. State Athletic Association Class AA championship. He dislocated his patella in the closing moments of that game but has since recovered and played AAU for Team Takeover this past summer.

Anyone have ideas, promotions or new ways to get more people out to games (or people from the parking lot to actually go in)? I know money is always an issue, Temple tickets are cheap already and the Eagles may have a say in what can or can not be done. And obviously Temple winning games would help.

But there has to be ways (outside Homecoming) to get larger crowds in the lower bowl (and then hopefully building from there).

As an aside, single tickets do not go on sale until August per the website which is how most sport tickets are sold. I (and others) have said repeatedly that while season tickets are very important I don’t see some huge number of new season tickets happening before the season. Can single tickets be put on sale sooner and focus on getting people into the stadium?

JDC's article on the front page. Good get!!

... a very good week on the recruiting front for Adam Fisher and his staff, from what we've been told through several sources.

Stay tuned ...

Ryan Mack, who will have our coverage of tonight's game, tells me E.J. Warner is not dressed as of now. He's waiting on confirmation just to make sure Warner isn't suiting up tonight, so we'll have more for you when we know for sure.

You can listen to my interview with Dillon Battie here.

Good afternoon, everyone!

We're taking mailbag questions for this week's podcast until 3 p.m. tomorrow. Although it will be more of a basketball-centric episode, we will talk about the upcoming Navy game, so we're of course happy to take football mailbag questions.

How about this one?

What the hell happened to him? He was pretty well regarded in his previous stint here, but this is clearly the poorest performing part of a horrible team.

We're taking mailbag questions for this week's podcast until 2 p.m. today. If you have something for us, please drop it in here and we'll answer it on the show.

This week's pod will include part of my 1-on-1 interview with Camren Wynter, Adam Fisher's special assistant to the head coach and a former Penn State guard who helped lead the Nittany Lions to the NCAA Tournament last season.

We'll also have some audio from today's men's basketball media day, so we'll have plenty of hoops content for you.

Thanks as always for listening!

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Temple hosted class of 2024 combo guard Aiden Tobiason on an official visit this week. He arrived on campus late Thursday morning, and his visit wrapped up last night, according to several sources familiar with his recruitment.

The 6-foot-5 Tobiason has seen his recruitment really pick up over the last few months. Last weekend, he scored 35 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against Neumann-Goretti in the Luv1ne Classic at Delaware's Odessa High School. In addition to the Temple offer he received a week ago, he has offers from Delaware, Delaware State, Vermont, Sacred Heart and UMBC.

I haven't seen him play, but two people who have told me he has high major ability and that his offer list beyond Temple isn't a true indication of his ability and upside.