Eastern Michigan Athletics
Eastern Michigan University
Temple
Last-Second Three Point Field Goal Drops the Eagles
12/22/2007 3:10:11 PM | Men's Basketball
Temple senior hits a three-point field goal with just 1.3 seconds left for a 58-55 win
Box score.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Temple University guard Mark Tyndale hit an off-balance three-point field goal from the top of the three-point arc to give the Owls a 58-55 non-conference win over a visiting Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team here Saturday afternoon at the Liacouras Center.
EMU junior point guard Carlos Medlock (Detroit, Mich.-Murray Wright) set up the thrilling finish with a driving lay-up with :13.2 left to tie the game at 55-55. Temple then hustled the ball up court with Tyndale connecting on the triple. The Eagles long in-bounds pass was intercepted, giving the Owls the three-point victory.
Medlock led the Eagles, now 4-5 on the year, with 19 points while senior guard Jesse Bunkley (Detroit, Mich.-CMA-Mott C.C.) added 15. Senior Travis Lewis (Kalamazoo, Mich.-Loy Norrix) also notched 10 rebounds to led the Green and White. Temple, now 6-5, was paced by Dionte Christmas with 22 while Tyndale added 10.
The Eagles started the game with two free throws from junior guard Wendale Farrow (Sacramento, Calif.-Mira Loma-American River C.C.) for a 2-0 lead and the two teams traded baskets through the first nine minutes, with the score deadlocked at nine-all at the 11:14 mark.
The Owls then came back with an 11-4 run, to take an eight-point lead, 21-13, with 7:48 left in the half. The Eagles then fought back to gain a 21-21 tie at the 6:03 mark on two straight three-point field goals, by Jarred Axon (Jackson, Mich.-Jackson-Schoolcraft C.C.) and Bunkley, followed by a four-foot jumper from James Matthews (Detroit, Mich.-Denby), seeing his first action of the season.
The Eagles would then boost their lead to as many as four, 27-23, with just over a minute left in the half and would hold on for a 27-25 halftime lead.
Temple’s Christmas led all scorers in the first half with 13 while Medlock and Bunkley checked in with eight each. The Eagles won the first-half battle of the boards, 13-11.
The second half started with a flurry as Temple came back in the first three minutes to forge a two-point lead, 31-29. The Eagles were not to be denied, however, recording two straight triples, from Bunkley and Medlock, for a 35-31 Eagle advantage.
Eastern managed to keep its lead over the next 10 minutes and Farrow’s lay-up with 8:01 remaining gave the Eagles a two-point lead, 46-44. Temple then went to the long-range attack and back-to-back threes by Mark Tyndale and Christmas and a lay-up by Tyndale, gave the Owls a six-point cushion, 52-46.
Axon then responded with a three-point goal of his own to cut the home team’s lead to three, 52-49, with 4:46 left. The game seesawed the rest of the way as both teams traded big buckets to set up the thrilling finish.
The Eagles will be idle until heading to Corpus Christi, Texas to play in the Flint Hills Resources Islander Invitational, Dec. 28-29. Eastern will open play on Dec. 28 against Rhode Island at 6 p.m. (EDT) while host Texas A&M Corpus Christi will square off against Georgia Southern at 8:30 p.m.
