BY DAVID JONES
PHILADELPHIA – Not that every game in the Liacouras Center is ugly, but afternoons like Saturday are common enough that they should have a hazmat team on-hand.
They’ve scored fewer points in a game only once in the 12-plus year history of the Liacouras Center than in Temple’s 45-42 mud-wrestle of Penn State. Neither team has a lot of offensive options. And the best ones for each team weren’t exactly piping hot.
Fitting that the decision should come down to a string of field-hockey scrambles in front of the net the Owls wrenched their way, and then an offensive foul on the Lions.
During a critical juncture starting midway in the second half, Temple got eight points on various stick-backs amid an 11-4 run that turned a 30-29 deficit into a 40-34 lead with four minutes left. Temple collected 17 offensive boards in the game.
Lamented PSU coach Ed DeChellis: “They won the game on the glass.”
But it wasn’t lost until the game’s final four plays, spanning the last half-minute. They heavily involved a pair of good-looking freshmen, one from each team….
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