Temple University senior Dionte Christmas has been invited to the NBA Draft Combine to be held in Chicago on May 28-29. The purpose of the two-day combine is to give the top 60 prospects a chance to showcase their skills in front of NBA general managers, coaches and scouts.

Temple University senior Dionte Christmas will take his game on a 7,130 mile tour during the month of May, making stops to eight different NBA teams in a two-week period. The tour commenced yesterday (May 12) with a visit to the Toronto Raptors.

Senior Dionte Christmas was named the men's basketball Most Valuable Player while junior LaKeisha Eaddy and senior Shenita Landry of women's basketball team were named co-MVPs at the Owl Club Annual Awards Banquet held Tuesday, April 14 on the main campus at Mitten Hall.

Senior guard Dionte Christmas won the Palumbo Award as the Big 5's top scorer for the third straight season and was named First Team All-Big 5 for the third straight season at the 63rd annual Herb Good Basketball Awards Dinner held at The Savoy in Pennsauken, N.J. Monday night. Junior guard Ryan Brooks and sophomore forward Lavoy Allen were named Second Team all-Big 5 in the...

Temple University All-America candidate Dionte Christmas has been named to the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Second Team All-Senior All-America Team. Tyler Hansbrough was named the winner of the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award and headlined the First Team which also included Jimmy Baron (Rhode Island), Jerel McNeal (Marquette), Terrence Williams (Louisville) and Sam Young (Pittsburgh...

Temple University All-America candidate Dionte Christmas capped his stellar career by being named Honorable Mention All-America by the Associated Press. It marks the first Owl to earn All-America status since Mardy Collins also garnered Honorable Mention All-America as a senior in 2005-06.

Temple University senior guard Dionte Christmas will serve as a Comcast SportsNet studio analyst tonight during Villanova's NCAA Tournament game against Duke. Christmas, the only player to lead the Atlantic 10 Conference in scoring for three consecutive seasons, will join host Marshall Harris and Comcast SportsNet analyst Jon Celestand at both halftime as well as an extended...

The Temple University men's and women's basketball teams will be prominently featured on NBC10's Wednesday's Child segment that will air tonight, March 25 during the station's 5:00 p.m. news. The segment will also replay on Saturday, March 28 at 9:00 a.m.

The Atlantic 10 Conference will hold its 2010, 2011 and 2012 men's basketball championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., it was announced today by commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade. The Championship has been held there for the past three years.

Arizona State's season scoring leader struggled most of the game but sank a 3-pointer with 4:02 left, helping the Sun Devils hold off Temple 66-57 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The Temple men's basketball team took the floor at American Airlines Arena Thursday in preparation for its first round NCAA Tournament game against sixth-seed Arizona State (24-9) Friday afternoon (2:45 p.m.). Head coach Fran Dunphy along with seniors Dionte Christmas, Semaj Inge and Sergio Olmos spoke with the media for the Owls (22-11) prior to practice. Temple University photographer...

The Temple men's basketball team arrived in Miami Wednesday afternoon following a morning practice session. The team's charter flight landed at 3:25 p.m. and when the Owls pulled up to the Hyatt Regency Miami none other than Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, currently competing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, met the bus. The players then settled into the plush...

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Temple, seeded 11th in the South Region, will face sixth-seeded Arizona State in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL on Friday. The Owls, who won their second straight and eighth Atlantic 10 Championship on Saturday with a 69-64 win over Duquesne, will be making their 27th NCAA Tournament appearance. Game time is 2:45 p.m. ET

Dionte Christmas scored 29 points on seven three-pointers and Ryan Brooks and Sergio Olmos each scored 14 points as Temple captured its second consecutive Atlantic 10 Championship with 69-64 victory over Duquesne from Boardwalk Hall on Saturday evening.The championship is Temple's eighth Atlantic 10 title, the most of any team in the conference. The Owls also became the first...