United States of America

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Division I

American Athletic Conference

Sunday 3rd March 2019

Tip Off 14.00

Temple University Owls 80 Tulane University Green Wave 69, attendance 7,090

@ The Liacouras Center

1776 North Broad Street

Philadelphia

PA 19121

Admission $15 + $10 fees

No Programme.

The Liacouras Center was opened in 1997 and originally named The Apollo of Temple. It was renamed in 2000 after Temple University President, Peter J. Liacouras and has an all seated capacity of 10,206. It is easily reached by taking the Broad Street Line on the underground, getting off at Cecil B. Moore Station, with the journey costing $2.50 each way from the centre of Philadelphia.

Temple Owls are one of the top college basketball teams in the United States and are currently number 5 in the list of most ever wins in NCAA Division I. Tulane came into this bottom of the league table, but started well and looked like they might make a real game of it. Temple settled down and ran out easier winners than the eleven point winning margin suggests. Quinton Rose, with 29 points, led the way for the Owls, with Levan Shawn Alston Jr getting 22. Samir Sehic top scored for the visitors on 24 points.

We had bought tickets in advance of the game from the venue, which incurred a rip off 67% added fee to the ticket price, but needn’t have done so as the crowd was only about half of what the official figure claimed, although the price of the actual ticket on the day may have been more expensive. They obviously include season tickets on top of any sold tickets for the match.