A have a look at a number of Fran Dunphy’s largest education wins
Jan. 30, 1993
Penn sixty-four, Princeton forty-six. Princeton had dominated the Ivy League, winning four consecutive titles. However, the changing of the shield came for the duration of this recreation in Dunphy’s fourth season. Both groups were 2-zero inside the Ivy League, and they performed earlier than Penn’s first sellout at the Palestra because 1984. The Quakers didn’t disappoint the lovers. It was the primary of four straight seasons that the Quakers won the Ivy League. They went 14-0 in the league in each of the first three of these seasons.
March 17, 1994
Penn ninety, Nebraska 80. Dunphy’s first NCAA Tournament win, an East Regional commencing-round recreation on the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island. The Quakers had been the No. Eleven seed and became the primary Ivy team in a decade to win an NCAA game. No. 6 seed Nebraska become the Big Eight Tournament champ.
Dec. 13, 1994
Penn 62, Michigan 60. Penn disenchanted the No. 25 Wolverines at Crisler Arena. The Quakers jumped to a 28-7 lead but had to preserve off a later Wolverines run. Entering the game, Michigan was in the Associated Press Top 25 for 59 instantly weeks, since the 1990-ninety one season. Jerome Allen broke a 60-60 tie with a one-hander from 10 toes with four.4 seconds final.
Jan. 29, 2002
Penn eighty-one, La Salle seventy-six (OT). Penn had gained its first 3 Big five video games through nine factors and became looking to go 4-0 for the first time in 28 years. Also, this turned into opposition to Dunphy’s alma mater. La Salle entered with just an 8-eleven file; however, he showed a fight by overcoming a 20-point deficit to pressure the additional time.
March 9, 2002
Penn seventy-seven, Yale 58. Penn had made an overdue-season rate, triumphing its remaining nine everyday-season Ivy video games to pressure a 3-manner tie for the first region with Princeton and Yale. All three had 11-3 facts, and after Yale beat Princeton in a one-game playoff, the Bulldogs faced Penn, with the winner earning an NCAA berth. (Penn had made a primary-round bye after going three-1 mixed towards Princeton and Yale within the regular season.) In this play-in game, held at Lafayette, the Quakers scored the first 8 factors and never trailed.
March 15, 2008
Temple sixty-nine, Saint Joseph’s sixty-four. Dunphy earned his first NCAA Tournament berth with Temple, in his 2d season, by beating the rival Hawks in the Atlantic 10 championship sport earlier than a crowd of 10,116 at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. It becomes Temple’s first NCAA berth due to the fact 2001. Temple progressed to 21-12, capping a top-notch turnaround after beginning the yr 6-8.
Dec. 13, 2009
Temple seventy-five, Villanova 65. With sophomore guard Juan Fernandez scoring a profession-excessive 33 points, Temple disillusioned the No. Three-ranked Wildcats at the Liacouras Center. It becomes most effective Villanova’s 2nd loss in its past 23 Big five games.
March 17, 2011
Temple 66, Penn State 64. Fernandez hit a recreation-prevailing jumper with 0.4 seconds left in Temple’s first NCAA win underneath Dunphy and the school’s first because 2001. This NCAA West Regional recreation turned into performed on the McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz. Temple then misplaced a seventy-one-sixty-four, double-OT affair to No. 2-seeded San Diego State, whose famous person, Kawhi Leonard, scored six of his 16 factors inside the 2nd beyond regular time.
Jan. 4, 2012
Temple 78, Duke seventy-three. Temple took the subway to this recreation at the Wells Fargo Center and drove the No. Five-ranked Blue Devils out of the building. “Their children understand how to play,” Duke educates Mike Krzyzewski said of Temple. “It’s ordinary [of them]. They have one of the satisfactory coaches in the United States. We glaringly didn’t play very well.”
Dec. 22, 2012
Temple 83, Syracuse 79. This sport, played at Madison Square Garden, became a part of the Gotham Classic, but greater importantly, Temple beat a Syracuse team that turned into ranked No. 3 nationally. Temple, which acquired 33 factors from Khalif Wyatt, additionally snapped the Orange’s 52-game, normal-season, nonconference prevailing streak and surpassed them their first loss that season, after 10 wins.
March 22, 2013
Temple 76, North Carolina State 72. Temple became making its sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and used 31 points from Wyatt to win this starting NCAA East Regional recreation for both teams in Dayton, Ohio.
March 13, 2015
Temple 80, Memphis 75. This quarterfinal win in the American Athletic Conference Tournament on the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., changed into Dunphy’s five hundredth professional victory.
Jan. 24, 2016
Temple 89, SMU eighty. SMU became 18-zero and ranked No. Eight inside the country and the game become moved returned a day because of inclement climate. Larry Brown’s Mustangs were the country’s final unbeaten group. Devin Coleman scored 23 factors, hitting all eight of his field-intention attempts, including seven from three-factor range, for a Temple team that might earn an NCAA berth that season.
