Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 10:39 PM | 4 comments |
 

The Old Temple One-Two
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Temple seems headed to becoming the second Atlantic 10 team to have the conference's top two overall scoring leaders. The Owls were also the first team to do so, five seasons ago.

Ramone Moore (18.8 through Wednesday) has a comfortable lead and would have to stumble badly not to win the scoring crown. Temple's Khalif Wyatt (16.71) is in a battle with Fordham's Chris Gaston (16.70) and Xavier's Tu Holloway (16.61) for second place.

At the very least, Temple should become fifth A10 team to have the scoring leader and another player in the top 5. The previous four:

 Season  School  Pos.      Player  G  Pts.  Avg.
 2006-07  Temple  1st  Dionte Christmas      30     600     20.0  
     2nd  Mark Tyndale  24  465  19.4
             
 1987-88      Rhode Island      1st  Carlton Owens  35  762  21.8
     3rd  Tom Garrick  35  719  20.5
             
 2000-01  La Salle  1st  Rasual Butler  29  641  22.1
     3rd  Victor Thomas  29  571  19.7
             
 1992-93  Temple  1st  Aaron McKie  33  680  20.6
     5th  Eddie Jones  32  543  17.0
Posted by Bob Vetrone Jr. @ 10:39 PM  Permalink | 4 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:10 PM, 02/15/2012
    Interesting stat.
    — JackJLewis
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:57 AM, 02/16/2012
    And this means what?
    — Clifton
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:20 PM, 02/16/2012
    Maybe it means that Temple is a hard team to beat with a couple top scorers. Doesn't mean they can't get triped up in the NCAAs tho. It would be nice to see them get at least to the sweet 16. Go Owls.
    — joninohio
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:18 PM, 02/16/2012
    Interesting stat. That 87-88 URI team with Garrick and "Silk" Owens was a really nice team. However, Temple beat them three times that season.
    — Period


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About Bob Vetrone Jr.

Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

His favorite books growing up were the NBA Guide and the Baseball Encyclopedia, which was, for all intents and purposes, the Internet before there was an Internet.

He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at vetronb@phillynews.com.


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