The Penn-Temple game is all about Fran Dunphy making his return to the Palestra where he won over 300 games for the Quakers.
But the major factor on who wins tomorrow will be decided by Penn coach Glen Miller.

The Quakers play a style of offense that spreads the floor, involves a lot of motion -- cutting to the basket, moving around the perimeter -- and driving hard to the hoop. This has worked well at times during the year, but it is certainly not suited to beat a team like Temple.

You might consider the Red and Blue a small team (especially the starting five of 6-foot-2 Ibrahim Jaaber, 6-3 Kevin Egee, 6-4 Brian Grandieri, 6-7 Mark Zoller and 6-8 Stephen Danley), but they look like vultures compared to the Owls.

Temple has only has one player with over three minutes per game who is over 6-6, and 7-foot Spaniard Sergio Olmos (16 mpg) is too small at 220 pounds to be a force on the inside.

Saint Joseph's beat the Owls in North Philly earlier this year by pounding it inside to their big men and taking advantage.

Penn's style of offense is not the kind that beats a team full of swingmen like Temple. But if the Quakers make some adjustments to get the ball to Zoller and Danley inside, they will dominate, and should move to 2-1 in the Big 5.

Temple Starters:
6-4 Semaj Inge
6-6 Dion Dacons
6-5 Mark Tyndale
6-5 Dionte Christmas
6-5 Dustin Salisbery

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