PHILADELPHIA — For the seventh time in the last eight seasons, the Temple men's basketball team defeated a Top-10 opponent. The unranked Owls ended #8 SMU's quest for an undefeated campaign, topping the Mustangs 89-80 at the Liacouras Center the day after one of the worst blizzards in Philadelphia history. Temple snapped SMU's 18-0 start to the season, taking down the last undefeated men's team in the country.
The win gives the 11-7 Owls (5-2 American) a third win over a Top-25 team this season, the first time that a Temple team has accomplished that feat since the 1999-00 season.