Pirates Drop Third Straight Game

Saturday, January 7

Philadelphia, PA

12 p.m.

East Carolina University

9-8, 1-3

Temple

10-7, 1-3

East Carolina

Temple

Photo by: Rob Goldberg

January 07, 2017 | Men's Basketball

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Daniel Dingle scored 19 points, Ernest Aflakpui had a career-high 13 points with 10 rebounds and Temple beat East Carolina 81-62 on Saturday.

Aflakpui scored five straight points to start a 10-2 Temple run for a 62-48 lead midway through the second half and the Owls led by double digits the rest of the way.

Quinton Rose added 14 points and Mark Williams scored 13 off the bench while Obi Enechionyia had 12 for Temple (10-7, 1/3 American). Dingle also had five rebounds, six assists and three steals to help the Owls snap a three-game losing streak.

B.J. Tyson, averaging a team-high 12.3 points, finished with just eight points on 4-of-12 shooting for East Carolina (9-8, 1-3), which lost its third game in a row.

IT'S A GAME OF RUNS

Temple jumped out to a 10-4 lead in the first five minutes, but the Pirates countered with a 10-2 spurt to take their only lead of the game at 14-12.
Quinton Rose then scored the game's next six points and put the Owls ahead to stay. ECU pulled within one point three times during the remainder of the half before ultimately trailing by six at intermission.
Temple stretched its lead to 10 points in the first six minutes of the second half and 14 less than 10 minutes into the period.
Dingle gave Temple an 11-point lead with 11:03 to play and the Pirates never cut their deficit below double figures the remainder of the contest.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

All 10 players that played for ECU scored. It was the second game this season in which 10 or more players scored for the Pirates. Eleven scored against Presbyterian.
ECU (.407) and Temple (.405) enter the game ranked ninth and 10^th in the league in field goal percentage. Today each shot well over its season average as the Pirates connected on 42.4 percent of its attempts and the Owls made 53.2 percent of their field goal attempts.
East Carolina committed less than 10 turnovers for the second time in the last three games.
Junior Kentrell Barkley led the Pirates in scoring for the third straight game and rebounding for the fifth consecutive game.
Freshman Deng Riak matched his career-high for scoring with eight points.
Freshman Elijah Hughes dished out a season-best four assists.