Falcons Get Throw Back Beating in Philly

As I said in the preview, Temple is a good team and probably the best team BG will play this year, and the game in Philly was pretty much a worst case scenario.

The Owls are just a fantastic defensive team, and they held BG to 13 points in the first half and 39 points for the whole game.  BG shot 27% for all field goals and 20% from beyond the arc, and you pretty much can't win a game like that.  (Perhaps even worse, BG shot 17% in the first half).

It is BG's worst offensive performance since 1995.

As you can see below, BG was close for the first 10 minutes, mostly on getting stops, but then for the last ten minutes the Owls went on a 21-6 run and the game was pretty much blown open.  I do give our guys credit, they came out of the locker room and stabilized things and got the game within 10, but it would not come any closer and the Temple talent and ability eventually came out and they won going away.

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While BG was shooting poorly, Temple had the range, shooting 47% and 43% from 3, and had a nice scoring game, despite running down the shot clock almost every time they had the ball.

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There's not a whole lot more to say. Temple just dominated the Falcons in every way possible. It was throwback night, but the Owls brought a medieval beating down on BG.

The good news is that the teams gets to go right back on the court Wednesday against a decidedly less talented Towson State team, and can continue to improve as conference play--and our real goals--approach.