GAME THREAD: men's basketball vs. Temple (AAC)

[Mustangsabu]

I’m inclined to say that we have the level of interest from our players and coaches that we do from our fans. We are the local team and if there are 200 pony fans here that’s being generous.

[PonyPride]

Ball knocked out of bounds, awarded to Owls ... until Ja'Heim implores officials to review it — and they do

Temple possession confirmed

[Hop Sing]

Our offense got exposed the last few games of the regular season, and the wheels came off. Not sure why it took teams the majority of the season to figure it out.

[Charleston Pony]

This team stinks and we do have fair weather fans who will only support a winner. This team does not deserve any post season opportunity and is going to need a major roster overhaul to have any hope of being competitive next year

[PonyPride]

Emory Lanier fouled while shooting a 3

Hits 1 of 3 FTs

72-60

46 seconds left

[PonyPride]

Owls run out the clock

FINAL
Temple 75, SMU 60

[Arkpony]

Awful. Just awful.

[Hop Sing]

If this team hadn’t completely collapsed to end the regular season, our fans would have made the trip to cowtown. There was zero belief that this team was going anywhere in this tournament, thus the apathy.

I don’t understand why Vegas continued to make us heavy favorites.

[Charleston Pony]

Watching this team implode to finish the season was painful...and I do believe their season ended last night because I can't imagine them getting any post season invitation at this point. Losing 5 of their last 6 games really demonstrated how important Harris was to this team. When he got hurt and when he is "off" this is pretty much the same team that won only 10 games last year. Really disappointing watching this team fold in what might be just a one bid AAC this year

[EastStang]

Luckily the Caps were playing at the same time, so at least I didn't have to suffer with each turnover and brick. I agree Phelps tried to do it all on his own in the middle part of the 2nd half and he isn't that good. Give Temple credit, they pulled out that match-up zone from the Cheney days and we couldn't find the holes. Their center altered or blocked every shot in the paint. Losing Chuck hurt a lot. The holes were the 3s, but without a consistent outside shooter we were sunk. I will also say that Temple was pulling shots out their collective butts. Bank shot threes, running jump shots, falling down shots, all going in. It was their night.