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| University | Temple University |
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| Head coach | Adam Fisher (3rd season) |
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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Arena | Liacouras Center (Capacity: 10,206) |
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| Conference | The American |
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| Nickname | Owls |
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| Colors | Cherry and white
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| All-time record | 2,010–1,172 (.632) |
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| Final Four | 1956, 1958 |
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| Elite Eight | 1944, 1956, 1958, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2001 |
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| Sweet Sixteen | 1956, 1958, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2001 |
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| Appearances | 1944, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019 |
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| 1938 |
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| 1979, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
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| 1937, 1938, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2016 |
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| 1938, 1969 |
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The Temple Owls men's basketball team represents Temple University in the sport of basketball. The Owls compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). They play their home games in the Liacouras Center on the university's main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and are currently led by head coach Adam Fisher. Temple is the sixth-most winningest NCAA Division I men's college basketball program of all time, with 2,010 wins.
Temple won the inaugural National Invitation Tournament in 1938, and with it the national championship, in the season prior to the first NCAA tournament. They won the NIT again in 1969. Although Temple has competed in the NCAA tournament over thirty times, they are one of nine programs with that many appearances to have not won the tournament and one of four to have never reached the NCAA championship game. They recorded third-place NCAA finishes in 1956 and 1958.
On March 7, 2012, the Temple Owls announced that they would be rejoining the Big East Conference for all sports in 2013 after 31 years in the Atlantic 10 Conference, with the Owls football team membership beginning in the 2012 season. However, before Temple became an all-sports member of the Big East, the conference split along football lines. The league's non-FBS football schools formed a new Big East in 2013, while Temple and the remaining football members remained in the old conference, but renamed it the American Athletic Conference.