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The Temple Owls came up short in their bid to move past round 1 of the NCAA tournament, falling to Arizona State, 66-57. Temple, who backed into the tournament, was eliminated in the first round of the tournament for the second year in a row.


Temple was able to hold Arizona State's Pac-10 Player of the Year, James Harden, to only nine points but were unable to slow the rest of the Sun Devils down, who shot 51.3% from the field; compared to the Owls poor 37.3 team shooting percentage.
Temple senior Dionte Christmas led all scorers with 29 points, but that was just not enough to help the 11th seeded Owls upset the 6th seeded Sun Devils. The Owls have not won an NCAA tournament game since 2001.