6. Arizona State Sun Devils vs. 11. Temple Owls, 1st Round of NCAA Tournament

by Cory Williams on Mar 15, 2009 4:17 PM MST in ASU Basketball Comment 7 comments

Friday game in Miami, Florida. Game should start around 2:45 or 3 PM Eastern time, or 11:45-12 here in Arizona.

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We were the last game announced. I was quite nervous for a minute there. Some kind of massive clerical error would have ended my life.

Temple went 11-5 in the regular season of the Atlantic-10, but took care of business in the conference tournament to make it to the NCAA Tournament.

			FG			3PT			FT			Rebounds			Misc
	G	M	M	A	Pct	M	A	Pct	M	A	Pct	Off	Def	Tot	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF	PPG
Dionte Christmas	33	34.9	6.4	15.5	41.1	3.1	8.9	34.8	3.4	4.5	75.0	1.1	4.8	5.8	2.9	2.9	1.5	0.2	2.5	19.2
Lavoy Allen	32	31.1	4.6	7.9	57.9	0.2	0.7	33.3	1.5	2.4	64.5	3.8	5.1	8.9	2.0	1.3	0.4	1.6	2.4	10.9
Ryan Brooks	33	34.1	3.8	8.7	43.7	1.8	4.2	41.7	1.4	1.8	73.8	1.0	2.8	3.8	1.7	1.0	0.8	0.3	2.0	10.7
Sergio Olmos	29	23.0	3.3	6.1	55.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	1.8	2.5	69.9	1.1	2.9	4.1	0.9	1.4	0.4	1.4	2.7	8.4
Semaj Inge	33	28.8	2.7	6.6	40.4	0.5	1.3	34.1	1.3	2.0	65.2	1.2	2.7	3.9	3.6	2.2	1.2	0.5	2.5	7.1
Juan Fernandez	22	20.2	1.8	4.9	36.4	0.8	2.3	35.3	1.4	2.0	68.2	0.3	1.7	2.0	2.7	1.6	0.4	0.0	2.5	5.7
Craig Williams	26	14.6	1.8	4.9	37.0	1.5	3.6	40.4	0.4	0.4	90.9	0.5	2.6	3.1	0.9	0.5	0.3	0.2	1.5	5.5
Ramone Moore	13	13.2	1.7	4.3	39.3	0.6	1.6	38.1	0.5	0.5	85.7	0.6	1.7	2.3	0.7	1.2	0.3	0.0	1.5	4.5
Michael Eric	25	9.2	1.1	2.4	46.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.8	55.0	0.7	1.4	2.1	0.1	0.7	0.2	0.5	1.1	2.7
Luis Guzman	24	15.8	0.7	1.7	41.5	0.2	0.5	36.4	0.5	0.8	60.0	0.5	1.6	2.1	2.1	1.3	0.6	0.0	1.5	2.1
Scootie Randall	11	4.6	0.5	0.7	62.5	0.1	0.3	33.3	0.2	0.3	66.7	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.3	1.2
T.J. DiLeo	5	8.8	0.4	2.2	18.2	0.2	1.4	14.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.4	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.8	1.0
Rafael DeLeon	7	1.9	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
	33	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.3	1.8	3.1	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Dionte Christmas is an experienced senior who is a threat at 6'5" and 205 pounds. 6 rebounds a game and 19.2 points.

Side note: I love how the CBS show isn't talking about us at all. They just gloss right over our matchup to talk about Syracuse some more.

I am excited about this match up, but not too thrilled with the six seed. I suppose losing to USC gives us no respect, but we did beat Washington and Arizona the days before.

If we get past Temple, we face Syracuse in all likelihood. That is a painful match up to consider, but we will cross that bridge when we get there.

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