Daily News | After ‘a lot of ups and downs,’ Temple coach Diane Richardson is ready for Year 2
Graduate transfer Kendall Currence and senior center Denise Solis will return to the program next season, redshirt junior forward Rayne Tucker will be cleared from the transfer portal to play, and the Owls will have three incoming freshmen.
Currence transferred into Temple in 2022 after being a first team all-Colonial Athletic Association guard at Northeastern in 2021-22. However, she tore her ACL in the preseason, keeping her on the bench all year with Tucker, who was never cleared as a transfer by the NCAA.Temple has 12 scholarship spots expected to be filled for next season.
Central Florida, Cincinnati, and Houston are leaving the AAC next season to join the Big 12. UAB, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, North Texas, Rice, and UTSA will replace them, making the AAC a 14-team, one-bid conference in women’s basketball. The Owls played the 56th-toughest schedule in the country and the 20th-toughest nonconference schedule, including six teams each from the NCAA Tournament and NIT fields.in Villanova, Mississippi, East Carolina, and South Florida. Richardson also announced nonconference matchups with Arizona State and Northwestern.
“There are new teams coming in, so it’s going to be a more robust conference,” Richardson said about next season. “Now, we’re trying to get personnel in here so we can play our brand of basketball.”
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