National Basketball Association
Temple 83, Georgia 81
When: 7:00 PM ET, Friday, November 22, 2013
Where: TD Arena, Charleston, South Carolina
Officials:
# John Hampton, # Rick Hartzell, # Les Jones
Attendance:
N/A
By SportsDirect Inc.
Temple 83, Georgia 81: Will Cummings hit a game-winning 3-pointer with seven seconds to play to give the Owls a close victory over the Bulldogs in the losers' bracket of the Charleston Classic.
Dalton Pepper scored a career-high 22 points and was 5-for-9 from 3-point range for Temple (2-3), which will face Alabama-Birmingham in Sunday’s fifth-place game. Cummings added 17 points and Daniel Dingle contributed a career-high 12 off the bench.
Kenny Gaines shattered his career high with 21 on 8-for-12 shooting from the field for Georgia (1-3), which will face Nebraska in the seventh-place game. Charles Mann added 19 for the Bulldogs, including 9-for-9 shooting from the free-throw line.
Georgia jumped out to a quick 15-5 advantage a little less than seven minutes in, but Pepper got hot for the Owls, nailing five 3-pointers in the final 13 minutes to give Temple a 45-32 lead at the break. The Owls sputtered early in the second half though, scoring just eight points in the first eight-plus minutes and allowing Georgia to get back within two at 53-51.
Georgia took its first lead in more than 30 minutes at 81-80 on a Mann layup with 18.4 seconds to play , but Cummings answered with a 3-pointer from the left elbow to give the Owls the advantage. Donte' Williams fired up a 3-pointer at the buzzer to try to win it for Georgia but missed, sealing the Owls' victory.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Temple was 18-for-23 from the free-throw line. … The Owls avoided their first four-game losing streak since the 2006-07 season. … Georgia fell to 1-3 for the second consecutive season.
Top Game Performances
| Georgia |
|
Temple |
|
Kenny Gaines 21 |
Scoring |
Dalton Pepper 22 |
|
Cameron Forte 2 |
Assists |
Dalton Pepper 5 |
|
Donte Williams 4 |
Rebounds |
Dalton Pepper 6 |
|
Charles Mann 9 |
Free Throws Made |
Will Cummings 6 |
|
Marcus Thornton 2 |
Steals |
Dalton Pepper 1 |
|
N/A |
Blocks |
Daniel Dingle 1 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Georgia
|
81 |
50.0 |
3-10 |
22-26 |
8 |
26 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
| Temple
|
83 |
48.2 |
11-20 |
18-23 |
11 |
28 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
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