by John Di Carlo

Fran Dunphy said he believed the NCAA Tournament selection committee has a good storyline in mind when it paired up Temple as a No. 5 seed with Ivy League champion Cornell as the 12th seed and slated the two programs to meet in a first round Eastern Regional game on Friday at 12:30 p.m. The Big Red are coached by Steve Donahue, who worked as an assistant for 10 seasons of Dunphy's 17-year tenure at Penn. Not surprisingly, in the Owls' first media appearance since arriving in Florida, Dunphy was asked about it again Thursday afternoon before his team took the practice floor at Jacksonville Memorial Arena. [details]