Coppin State 39, at Temple 59

PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — In a contest defined more by defensive pressure and offensive inefficiency than fluid scoring, the Temple women’s basketball team methodically dispatched visiting Coppin State 59-39 in a non-conference game Friday night at Liacouras Center. The Owls, improving to 6-5, never trailed but struggled to fully shake the Eagles until a decisive third-quarter push. Coppin State, which fell to 2-11, was undone by historically poor shooting, failing to connect on any of its 17 attempts from three-point range and shooting just 23.7 percent overall from the field. The game’s most pivotal sequence arrived late in the third quarter,… Read more...