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Tonight Temple faced it’s first big test playing USC that is ranked 57th in the nation. USC is a 9-point favorite.

USC’s PG Weaver is vulnerable to turnovers.

Will see if Temple can hold off USC’s bigs inside from overwhelming Temple’s inside players, without excessively fouling.

USC front-line includes 6’11” Junior Rakocevic (16.4 ppg) 6’9 freshman Okongwu (18.6 ppg) and 6’10” freshman Mobley. Okongwa and Mobley both weigh in excess of 235 pounds. USC likes to play a lot of hi-low action. If Temple can keep USC’s big boys off the foul-line, game should be very competitive.

D.Moore Will not likely to play tonight. Defensively, Temple will have match-up problems, but hopefully Temple’s pressure defense will be effective, and keep Temple out of so many half-court sets which they struggle playing in.

Temple players are also going to have a difficult time getting to the hoop facing USC’s big frontline.

If Temple applies it’s pressure defense Temple can win this game.

Temple two-point shooting has declined to 45.8 percent- an indication of how bad it’s half-court offense really is.

Dre Perry has been shooting both two’s (55 percent) and three’s (40 percent) very well. He should play and shoot more.

Temple has only averaged 71.7 points a game against so-so teams is not a good sign.