| Temple Owls | ||||
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| University | Temple University | |||
| All-time record | 1,994–1,155 (.633) | |||
| Head coach | Adam Fisher (2nd season) | |||
| Conference | The American | |||
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |||
| Arena | Liacouras Center (Capacity: 10,206) | |||
| Nickname | Owls | |||
| Colors | Cherry and white[1] | |||
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | ||||
| 1938 | ||||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | ||||
| 1938 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Final Four | ||||
| 1956, 1958 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1944, 1956, 1958, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2001 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1956, 1958, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2001 | ||||
| NCAA tournament round of 32 | ||||
| 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2011, 2013 | ||||
| NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
| 1944, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1979, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1937, 1938, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2016 | ||||
The Temple Owls men's basketball team represents Temple University in the sport of basketball. The Owls compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). They play their home games in the Liacouras Center on the university's main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and are currently led by head coach Adam Fisher. Temple is the sixth-most winningest NCAA Division I men's college basketball program of all time, with 1,978 wins at the end of the 2022–23 season. Although they have reached the NCAA Tournament over thirty times, they are one of nine programs with that many appearances to have not won the Tournament and one of four to have never reached the National Championship Game.
On March 7, 2012, the Temple Owls announced that they would be rejoining the Big East Conference for all sports in 2013 after 31 years in the Atlantic 10 Conference, with the Owls football team membership beginning in the 2012 season. However, before Temple became an all-sports member of the Big East, the conference split along football lines. The league's non-FBS football schools formed a new Big East in 2013, while Temple and the remaining football members remained in the old conference, but renamed it the American Athletic Conference.
- ^ "Temple University Logo Usage Guide" (PDF). April 29, 2021. Retrieved July 9, 2022.