By BOB DiCESARE, For the Daily News
LEWISTON, N.Y. - John Chaney, the former Temple coach, surely would have bristled at the notion of an 8 a.m. tipoff as an obstacle, an inconvenience, a gimmick destined to produce substandard basketball. Why, by that time of the morning many of Chaney's practices already had concluded. In his world, the early bird got the layup.