Temple Owls

Laying points with the Owls was the losing side of 2025-26: they covered 7 of 19 games as favorites and backing their favorite moneylines cost more than at all but 28 Division I teams. Getting points, Temple covered 7 of 12.

Favored, and short

Temple was favored 19 times and won 11, but covered only seven, 36.8%. The 18 priced favorite moneylines lost 3.95 units. Five of the eight favorite losses came at home, the shortest at -285 to Rice, 74-80 on 1 March, and at -192 to Charlotte, 76-80.

Even the wins over Princeton did not pay the spread: Temple laid 8.5 both times and won by four, 79-75 in November and 65-61 in December. Against UTSA it laid 10.5 twice, covering once.

As underdogs it was the reverse: 4-8 straight up, 7-5 against the number, and the best price of the season landed at home, 79-78 over South Florida at +380.

Seven up, then one in nine

The Owls won seven straight between 9 December and 7 January, a run that included road wins at Davidson (+180) and Charlotte (+102). From 11 February they won once in nine games, an 89-60 home rout of Tulane, and March alone cost 2.49 units.

Home and away

At home: 10-6, seven covers in 15. On the road: 5-6, seven covers in 11, 63.6%. On neutral floors they went 1-4.

Over all 30 priced games, one unit on Temple every time lost 4.31 units; 14 covers in 31 lined games, 45.2%.

Florida Atlantic, three times

Florida Atlantic beat Temple in all three meetings, the last in the American Conference tournament, 59-63, with Temple a -118 favorite. Temple covered once in the three. East Carolina went the other way: two Temple wins, two covers.

The total

Seventeen overs against 14 unders. With 92 Division I teams ahead of that over rate, Temple totals give us nothing to lean on.

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