Temple Gets the Win Over St. Bonaventure, 76-70

Filed under Game Recap on February 16th, 2012

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On February 15th in St. Bonaventure the Owls beat the Bonnies, 76-70, in conference action.

A couple key stats coming into the game: The RPI ranked Temple higher, #18 to #87. Last year, Temple beat St. Bonaventure 83-55. Going back four years, the Owls are 6-0 against the Bonnies including 3-0 at Reilly Center. Temple has a great record over St. Bonaventure going back to 1980, 48-6.

Temple was able to best St. Bonaventure in turnover margin and shooting.

The Owls, with 43% shooting, were too much for the Bonnies and their 42% from the floor. The Owls only gave the ball away eight times compared to 15 for the Bonnies.

Ramone Moore led all scorers against the Bonnies with 19 points on 54% shooting in 29 minutes. Micheal Eric helped the cause by topping everyone with 11 rebounds.

TEMPLE Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Ramone Moore 29 19 4 3 3 0 1 A Juan Fernandez 38 16 2 4 4 0 1 A R. Hollis-Jeffersron 32 11 8 2 1 1 1 B+ Micheal Eric 33 6 11 0 0 3 1 B Khalif Wyatt 30 17 1 0 2 1 3 C+ Aaron Brown 10 3 3 0 0 0 0 C T.J. DiLeo 20 4 3 1 0 0 1 - Anthony Lee 6 0 0 0 0 0 0

Bona Players Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A Eric Mosley 23 18 4 2 0 0 1 A A. Nicholson 32 19 5 2 1 4 6 B D. Conger 29 8 6 2 1 1 2 C+ Charlon Kloof 24 7 2 3 0 0 2 C+ Chris Johnson 28 8 4 0 0 0 1 C Matthew Wright 23 0 3 3 1 0 0 C Jordan Gathers 12 3 1 0 0 0 0 C Da`Quan Cook 16 4 0 1 1 0 1 D+ Youssou Ndoye 13 3 2 0 0 0 2

The Owls are now 20-5, in what is usually the toughest part of the season. With their record improving to 9-2 in the A-10, they stay in 1st place. This improves their record against RPI Top 100 teams (St. Bonaventure #87) to 10-3. Furthermore, this adds to their 9 game winning streak.

The next game on the schedule is Duquesne at home on February 18th.

• Temple has won 84% of the time this season (11-2) when opponents record 4 or fewer steals.
• Ramone Moore has 18 straight double-digit point games.
• Temple has turned the ball over less than their opponents for the past 4 games.
• The win over St. Bonaventure extended the Temple winning streak to 9 games.
• Temple wins 80% of the time this season (8-2) when their opponent has 15 or more turnovers.

• Andrew Nicholson set a career high with a 100% three point percentage.
• St. Bonaventure lost and did not cover the spread.
• Andrew Nicholson has led the team in scoring 14 times in 23 games this season.
• Andrew Nicholson has 3 straight double-digit point games.
• The top two scorers (Andrew Nicholson and Eric Mosley) accounted for 52.8% of the points.

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Tags: Ramone Moore, Micheal Eric