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Owls take Flight in winning Big 5 Women’s Classic over Villanova

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Published06 Dec 2024

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Radnor PA: There is a certain feel when City bragging rights are up for grabs and that is what we saw on Friday night as the Villanova Wildcats would do battle with the Temple Owls for the Big 5 Championship in the 1st ever Big 5 Women’s Classic from Finneran Pavilion on the campus of Villanova University, Both Temple & Villanova made the finals with wins in their respective pods as the Wildcats took down Penn & Saint Joseph’s while Temple took down Drexel & LaSalle.

Lineups:

Temple

 

Villanova

 

 

How the game went:

In the first quarter the Wildcats would jump on the Owls for the early 9-0 lead and then Temple would figure things out as they would cut into the lead and the Wildcats would have a 19-16 lead at the end of 1st quarter & then the Wildcats got the lead up to 6 & the Owls went on a run to only be down 34-30 at halftime. so one of the questions going into the second half is, what could Temple do to change what the Wildcats were doing, The Owls would take the lead at 41-39 with 5:29 left in 3rd quarter & from there the Owls never looked back as they got the lead as high as 16 in the 4th quarter at 72-56 with 3:35 left. Leading toe charge for the Owls was Tiarra East from 3 point range

The 3-point shooting for the Wildcats would come and haunt them in this game as they were not falling and were not able to get things going down the stretch of the game.

The Celebration would start as Temple would take down the Wildcats to win the 1st ever Women’s Big 5 Classic

Postgame:

Temple Coach Diane Richardson:

Villanova Coach Denise Dillion

https://twitter.com/DaveMReports/status/1865242771553935461

 

The Mel Greenberg Big 5 Classic MVP Award was named in honor of the legendary women’s college basketball writer & it went to Temple Tiarra East after she scored 26 points.

Final Stats:

Owls take Flight in winning Big 5 Women's Classic over Villanova