Temple started slow for the second straight game on Thursday. The Owls used a fourth-quarter comeback to defeat Quinnipiac University on Sunday, but could not catch up to Harvard University in a 73-62 loss to the Crimson at the Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For the second straight game, Temple failed to score more than 25 points in the first half. Temple only scored 23 points and trailed by nine at halftime after shooting less than 30 percent from the floor and less 20 percent from the 3-point line.
Junior guards Alliya Butts and Tanaya Atkinson combined for 12 of the 23 points in the first half.