Texas Southern @ Temple [12/18/2013] [Men's Basketball] Preview

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Courtesy OwlSports.com:
PHILADELPHIA - Santa Claus will be in attendance to greet fans on Wednesday, Dec. 18 when Temple men's basketball hosts Texas Southern at 7:00 p.m. in the Liacouras Center. The contest between the Owls (4-4) and the Tigers (3-7) will be be shown live on ESPN3.

• Temple and Texas Southern will be meeting for the first time in the history of the two programs.

• The Owls had won three straight games before falling narrowly in overtime to Texas, 81-80 on Dec. 7 at the Wells Fargo Center.

• Anthony Lee recorded career highs in points (23) and rebounds (14) vs. Texas, notching his third consecutive double-double and fifth of the season.

• Lee's fourth double-double of the season came in the win vs. Saint Joseph's (15 points/11 rebounds), and he scored seven of those points in the final 2:09 to seal the win.

• Will Cummings and Quenton DeCosey have both scored in double figures in all eight games this season.

• Texas Southern has won only once in its last eight games, a 63-54 victory vs. Howard on Nov. 26 at the Legends Classic.

• Graduate student Aaric Murray averages 22.2 points per game to lead the Tigers, while he and junior Jose Rodriguez (14.9 ppg) average 6.9 and 6.7 rebounds per game, respectively.

• Murray was a two-year starter at La Salle before transferring to West Virginia and then to Texas Southern...He averaged 15.2 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore at La Salle in 2010-11.
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Live Video:
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Radio & Streams:
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Live Stats:
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ESPN GameCast
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Game Notes:
OwlSports.com (PDF)

GAME STARTS AT 6PM CENTRAL! GOOO TIGERS!
 
It's game day! Here's a preview from CityOfBasketballLove.com
TEMPLE PREVIEW: TEXAS SOUTHERN (DEC. 18)

Texas Southern (3-7) vs. Temple (4-4)
When: Wednesday, December 18th
Where: Liacouras Center, Philadelphia PA
KenPom: Texas Southern 237, Temple 96
In a sentence… The Owls–coming off a heartbreaking loss to Texas–look to get back over .500 against a struggling Texas Southern team that has lost seven of their last eight games.

Getting to know the Tigers
Texas Southern hasn’t had the best last month or so. The Tigers are 3-7, and one of their three wins came against Wiley, a Division II team. They’ve lost seven of the last eight, and haven’t played a home game since that win over Wiley on November 11th.

That’s a long time on the road.

The Tigers are lead by a familiar face around the city of Philadelphia. Senior center Aaric Murray has had quite the collegiate career, starting at La Salle before transferring to West Virginia. Things didn’t work out in Morgantown, but it appears he has found a home with the Tigers.
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Read the rest: http://cityofbasketballlove.com/2013/12/temple-preview-texas-southern-dec-18th/
 
Yes just saw the great news on twitter everyone is talking about it social media is blowing up Murray came through like a champ 48 pts career high this should get attention of the NBA!!!!!!This makes it even the MEAC beat a team from the ACC now you guys beat team from the Big East/A-10
 
Murray and Prince Okoroh a 6-5 200 SG from Howard are holding it down for the hbcu family both are in the 40 pt club this year.Murray of course scored the most this season.Okoroh scored 40!!!!!
 
dal4018 pid=559 dateline=1387458183 said:
Mr Murray got some air time on ESPN after his record breaking performance!!!
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Yup at a little past :15 past the hour on SportsCenter
 
Yes saw the performance vs Temple he just made himself a marked man quite sure other coaches saw his stats and went wow!!! 20-28 from the field!!!!!!!!
 
 
Box Score: http://www.owlsports.com/boxscore.aspx?id=4606&path=mbball
... or in PDF form if you prefer it that way: http://www.owlsports.com/documents/2013/12/18/Temple-Texas_Southern90.pdf?id=2892
 
Some photos of the TSU-Temple game... Special thanks to Philly.com and Steven M. Falk for allowing republishing of these photos.

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Enjoy the holidays you have a date with Texas Christian 12-29 very soon hope that Murray has another 48 pt explosion in him????
 
I think he does and the team appears to be coming together nicely now. We must continue to win as a team and if that means Murray shooting 10 times or 100 times, I'm sure we will make things happen.

All things considered, this group of guys have only known each other for a few months and can only get better as a unit moving forward.
 
It would be quite shocking if Texas Southern played West Virginia in the first round of the NCAA tournament and the Tigers pulled a major upset over the Mountaineers and Murray had another 40+explosion at the expense of Bob Huggins aka Bobby Knight Jr.

Murray and TSU blew up on twitter I'am quite sure he is in heads of NBA scouts after that performance.
 
Thanks to his well known 48pt explosion vs Temple Aaric Murray has the no.3 scoring average in the country 24.5 ppg just saw this on http://www.espn.go.com
 
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