Lavoy Allen News

Jacob Pullen scored all but two of his 16 points in the second half as Kansas State beat Xavier 71-56 Tuesday night in Manhattan, Kansas.

Junior Lavoy Allen, an athletic 6-foot-9, 225-pound power forward, is Temple's top player.

Temple coach Fran Dunphy is starting to see that Ryan Brooks can be more than just his leading scorer.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; Dec. 4, 2009 - Coming off a 69-67 road victory at Virginia on Monday, the Nittany Lion basketball team will look to win a program record fifth-straight non-conference road game on Saturday when it takes on Temple at 4:00 p.m. at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.

It took only a scan of the Temple players lined up for the national anthem to realize something was a little different.

Temple couldn't contain Western Michigan's David Kool, but the Owls had double-digit scoring efforts from four of their starters tonight to emerge with a 76-70 victory at University Arena.

Notre Dame coach Mike Brey wasn't asked about the play of Luke Harangody until his postgame news conference was almost over.

D.J. Kennedy scored 15 points as St. John's beat Temple 55-48 in the finale of the Philly Hoop Group Classic on Saturday night.

De'Sean Butler stopped rushing his shot, stepped up his intensity and helped No.

Allen leads Temple over Virginia Tech 61-50 Eds: APNewsNow. Temple 61, Virginia Tech 50.

Twice a week, from his high school years through college, Fran McCaffery played summer-league basketball on Temple's campus, located in the heart of Philadelphia.

Links to print recaps will be added when I get them. Yes, Penn and Drexel really did shoot a combined 0-19 from three-point range.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Good news for Ball State: Its next opponent shudders at the mere thought of playing zone defense.

Between the low score and two former Ivy League coaches opposing each other again, it was natural to refer to Georgetown's riveting home opener as a 'Princeton-Penn kind of game.' But one look at Greg Monroe seizing the game in the final seconds, and it's also easy to see why John Thompson III quickly -- and correctly -- killed that angle.

'It was like Princeton because I was sitting on one bench and Franny was sitting on the other bench,' the Hoyas' coach said of his counterpart, Temple's Fran Dunphy. 'In every other way, it's not like Penn and Princeton.'

Photos courtesy of sienasaints.cstv.com and the Associated Press Tonight's big match up will be the Saints Alex Franklin and Ryan Rossiter against the Owls Lavoy Allen in the paint The Siena Saints have found themselves in the NCAA tournament at the end of the last two seasons.

Greg Monroe scored on a driving layup with 6.5 seconds to play, rescuing No. 19 Georgetown from a lackluster Tuesday afternoon performance to give the Hoyas a 46-45 win over Temple.

Whether the games were ugly or pretty, Georgetown found all sorts of ways to lose the close ones last season -- enough to sink the Hoyas down to the NIT.

Greg Monroe scored on a driving layup with 6.5 seconds to play, rescuing No. 19 Georgetown from a lackluster Tuesday afternoon performance to give the Hoyas a 46-45 win over Temple.

This isn't really a preseason version of the poll, because the season is already underway.

Ryan Brooks scored 23 points and sparked a key first-half run in Temple's 76-56 win over Delaware on Saturday.