National Basketball Association
Temple 90, George Washington 77
When: 11:00 AM ET, Sunday, March 22, 2015
Where: Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Officials:
# Clarence Armstrong, # Gary Prager, # Earl Walton
Attendance:
3404
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Temple 90, George Washington 77: Will Cummings had
21 points as the host Owls hit a season scoring high in downing the Colonials in
a second-round NIT game.
Jesse Morgan added a season-high 20 points,
including four 3-pointers, for Temple (25-10), which never trailed and will host
the winner of Monday’s Texas A&M-Louisiana Tech game in the quarterfinals
Wednesday. The Owls – who also received
13 points from Devin Coleman, 11 points from Josh Brown and eight points and a
game-high 15 rebounds from Jaylen Bond – shot 50.8 percent from the field, hit
21-of-24 free throws and finished with a 38-26 rebounding advantage.
Kethan Savage scored a career-high 25 off the
bench to pace George Washington (22-13), which lost its seventh straight
against its former Atlantic 10 Conference rival. Kevin Larsen added 19 points and seven rebounds and Yuta Watanabe had 15 points for the Colonials, whose 10-of-20 performance from
3-point range wasn’t enough to pull off a second straight NIT road win.
George Washington, which trailed 38-30 at halftime,
opened the second half with a 7-2 run to close within 40-37, but Temple
countered with an 11-4 spurt to stretch its advantage to 51-41. A three-point
play from Larsen cut the Colonials’ deficit to 62-54 with 9:01 to play before
the Owls took firm control with a 16-6 spree to take a 78-60 lead with 3:54
left, and the visitors only got as close as 13 the rest of the way.
Temple dominated early, scoring the game’s first
nine points, and as led by as much as 20-5 before Savage and Watanabe hit 3-pointers
in the final minute of the opening half to pull George Washington within eight
at the break. Morgan (15) and Cummings (nine) combined for 24 of the Owls’ 38 points
in the opening 20 minutes while Bond grabbed 11 rebounds.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Temple, playing in its 18th
NIT, is now 22-15 all-time in the tourney as it seeks its third championship. …
The Owls have hit 42-of-50 free throws while committing only 13 turnovers in their
back-to-back tourney wins. … George Washington fell to 1-5 in five all-time NIT
appearances.
Top Game Performances
| George Washington |
|
Temple |
|
Kethan Savage 25 |
Scoring |
Will Cummings 21 |
|
Kevin Larsen 4 |
Assists |
Will Cummings 4 |
|
Kevin Larsen 7 |
Rebounds |
Jaylen Bond 15 |
|
Kevin Larsen 7 |
Free Throws Made |
Will Cummings 8 |
|
Kethan Savage 3 |
Steals |
Jaylen Bond 1 |
|
Kethan Savage 2 |
Blocks |
Obi Enechionyia 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| George Washington
|
77 |
45.5 |
10-20 |
17-26 |
11 |
24 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
| Temple
|
90 |
50.0 |
7-19 |
21-24 |
16 |
38 |
2 |
5 |
8 |
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