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PHILADELPHIA -- Kevin Lyde worked on his shooting over the
summer and has made Temple coach John Chaney a believer.
The 6-foot-9, 240-pound Lyde had 21 points on 10-for-15 shooting
and sparked a second-half rally as the Owls beat Delaware 56-49
Monday night in the opening round of the Preseason NIT.
"I just want to show Coach that I can do what he wants me to
do," said Lyde, who scored seven points in Temple's 14-0 run in
the second half.
The Owls advanced to the second round and will play New Mexico,
which beat George Mason 79-68, on Wednesday night.
"Kevin gave us a fine effort," Chaney said, adding that he was
not happy with the rest of his team. "I believe he can shoot now.
He really worked on it over the summer."
Temple, who lost Atlantic 10 MVP Pepe Sanchez and first-team
all-conference selection Mark Karcher from the league
championship team of last year, shot just 38 percent (20-for-52) against the Blue Hens'
sticky man-to-man defense. The performance of the backcourt of Lynn
Greer (1-for-12) and Quincy Wadley (1-for-10) had Chaney puzzled.
"I have never seen Quincy play as badly as he did tonight,"
Chaney said. "I would never imagine he and Greer shooting like
that. That was an ugly game for us. We just couldn't put the ball
in the basket."
Temple trailed 43-36 with 9:26 to play when Delaware's Billy
Wells hit a 3-pointer.
The Owls then went on the 14-0 run and were up 50-43 with 4:51
to go.
The Blue Hens closed to 52-49 on two free throws by Ajmal
Basit with 2:13 to play, but David Hawkins hit a jumper and Greer
added two free throws to secure the victory.
Delaware, despite giving up size on the frontline, was able to
stay even in the first half as Temple shot 9-for-25 from the field
and missed seven of 11 free throws.
This was the head coaching debut for Delaware's David Henderson,
who spent the last three seasons as an assistant at Duke. He
replaced Mike Brey who left to take over as coach at Notre Dame.
Henderson said it was an honor to coach his first game against
Chaney, who started his 19th season at Temple.
"I was really looking forward to tonight," he said. "It just
happened to be against an icon. I'll forever remember this night,
coaching against a legend. I came here to compete, though, and we
did that."
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