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Temple plays it’s first conference game against a good UCF team tomorrow night on UCF’s court. They’ve post a 9-3 record. Even though Fall, Taylor, and Dawkins have departed, UCF has quickly re-loaded.

In non-conference play, UCF has averaged 71.6-ppg, and opponents have averaged 65.5 ppg.

UCF and Temple were both beaten by Miami. Temple lost by 1-point, UCF lost by 9-points on UCF’s court.

Temple should be favorites to beat UCF.

Offensively, UCF is a poor three-point (30 percent) shooting team that doesn’t get to the foul-line much. UCF manages not to commit many turnovers nor does it foul excessively.

UCF doesn’t force turnovers anywhere near as much as Temple does. UCF is a better offensive rebounding team than Temple is.

For Temple to win, Temple will need to apply it’s pressure defense a good bit, so Temple can speed up UCF so UCF shoots poorly, and thus enable Temple to get out and run. Temple also needs to shoot quite a few three’s, and shoot them well. Alani Moore, Dre Perry, Scott , and Moorman, all need to be on their three-point game. Anxious to see if Nate can repeat shooting three’s well (2/3), as he did in the Rider game.

in Also, Temple must not turn the ball over nor foul excessively. Don’t want to see UCF win by scoring more points than Temple at the foul-line.

UCF’s leading scorer is 6’11” Junior Colin Smith who averages 14-ppg, and four guards who average around 10-ppg. Temple will need another good offensive game from Forrester.

Temple needs to start conference play with a solid win over UCF.