Brodeur and Penn top Temple, clinch share of Big 5 title

PHILADELPHIA >> AJ Brodeur scored 16 points with seven rebounds and five assists on Saturday and Penn beat Temple 77-70 to clinch a share of the Big 5 title.

It was also the last time for the Quakers to see their all-time winningest coach Fran Dunphy. Dunphy spent 17 years at Penn and is in his 13th and last season at Temple.

Devon Goodman scored 15 points for Penn

(11-6) and Jakub Mijakowski added 14, all in the first half when the Quakers opened a 35-25 lead. Mijakowski was 4 for 4 from the field, all 3-pointers, and made both his free throws.

Ernest Aflakpui (Archbishop Carroll) scored 21 points and grabbed a career-high

15 rebounds for Temple (14-4), which had won 11 straight in the series. Penn’s last win over Temple was in Dunphy’s first season with the Owls.

Penn’s last win over Temple was in Dunphy’s first season with the Owls. Penn is 3-0, clinching a share of its 13th Big 5 title, their first since 2001-02. The Quakers face Saint Joseph’s next weekend. Villanova finished

3-1 in the all-Philadelphia round-robin and Temple 2-2.

RHODE ISLAND 78, LA SALLE 67 >> Jeff Dowtin scored 22 points, Cyril Langevine scored 19 with 14 rebounds and Rhode Island (10-7,

3-2 Atlantic 10) handed the Explorers (3-14,

1-4) their fourth straight loss. Philadelphia native Fatts Russell added

20 points for the Rams as the team shot

28 of 48 (58.3 percent) from the field but missed 15 free throws (19 of 34; 56 percent).

David Beatty led the Explorers with 14 points, Saul Phiri scored 12 and Jared Kimbrough and Pookie Powell each scored 11 with seven rebounds. Powell also had four assists.

The Explorers led 33-31 at intermission and used a 9-1 run to make it 42-32 when Traci Carter made a 3-pointer with 16:59 left. Dowtin followed with a layup and a 3 and that started a 22-3 run for the Rams. DREXEL 73, JAMES MADISON 68 >> Troy Harper had 22 points and Drexel (10-11, 4-4 Colonial Athletic) overcame an early 18-point deficit to defeat James Madison (9-11, 2-5).

Stuckey Mosley, who led James Madison with 25 points and seven rebounds, scored

11 points as the Dukes opened a 22-4 lead nearly eight minutes into the game. Nearly as sudden, Drexel stormed back to lead 3331 at halftime as Harper scored 11 points and Trevor John six in the 29-9 outburst.