Third Quarter Pushes Women's Basketball Past Memphis

Box Score

51 Memphis 8-11,1-5American 66 Temple 15-3,6-0American Score By Periods Team 1 2 3 4 Total Memphis 15 18 7 11 51 Temple 16 11 25 14 66 PHILADELPHIA -- A 16-0 run early in the third quarter led the Temple women's basketball team to their 11th-straight victory, a 66-51 win at home against conference-foe Memphis. The victory improves Temple to 15-3 overall with an unblemished 6-0 mark in The American. Memphis dips to 8-11, 1-5 following the loss.

Temple trailed by as many as seven, with Memphis using a 53.8% shooting performance in the second quarter to build their largest lead of the game. From there, Temple locked down on defense, using transition buckets to build on a 16-0 run that…