Wearing a blue cutoff shirt, Villanova’s Daniel Ochefu finished up his pregame warmup with a two-handed slam dunk 45 minutes before tipoff.
With his teammates headed to the locker room, the senior forward followed behind as boo’s from the Temple student section filled the Liacouras Center on Wednesday night.
Ochefu scored 16 points and nine rebounds, helping the Wildcats, the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 poll, defeat Temple 83-67, snapping the Owls’ five-game win streak.
“I thought they were terrific,” coach Fran Dunphy said. “They have very few weaknesses, if any. I thought their ball movement was great.