PHILADELPHIA – Temple, playing shorthanded due to injury and illness, gave it all it had but came up short in falling to #12 Houston, 66-61, at the Liacouras Center Sunday evening. The Owls fall to 7-6 overall, 0-2 in the American Athletic Conference play while the Cougars improve to 12-2 (1-0 AAC).
Both teams were missing key players. Houston lost two key players, Marcus Sasser and Tramon Mack to season-ending injuries heading into the game and Kyler Edwards to an ankle injury for this contest. The Owls, who had lost the AAC's leading scorer Khalif Battle (21.