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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Ty Shine was so impressive that even
Shaheen Holloway was brought to his feet.
Seton Hall's backup point guard became the backup hero Sunday,
helping the Pirates advance to the regional semifinals for the
first time since 1992.
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Sunday, March 19
John Chaney's best chance to get to the Final Four ended in overtime Sunday. Chaney loses Pepe Sanchez to graduation and likely will lose junior forward Mark Karcher to the NBA draft. Karcher has two children to support and has told ESPN.com the financial responsibilities might be too great for him.
Even if Karcher returns, trying to replace Sanchez is impossible. The Owls' system takes years of study to master, and Sanchez became the instructor at both ends
of the court. Lynn Greer showed he's not a point guard with a costly turnover in the final possession of overtime after Sanchez had fouled out at the end of regulation.
Chaney, nearing retirement, has had a remarkable run at Temple and should be a lock for the Hall of Fame. Hopefully, he'll coach as long as he's physically fit. But if he decides to retire anytime in the near future, look for him to set up his longtime assistant Dean Demopoulos in the same fashion that Dean Smith handed Bill Guthridge the job at North Carolina and Pete Carril handed off to Bill Carmody at Princeton.
Sanchez should be remembered as one of the best point guards ever to play college basketball. He was the consummate role player, who stuck to his position and
never tried to do too much. He wasn't a scorer and didn't need to be. Defensively, he made the matchup zone work. Chaney and Sanchez deserved a better exit. |
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Replacing the injured Holloway in the first half, Shine scored a
career-high 26 points, including the winning 3-pointer with 18
seconds left in overtime, to give the 10th-seeded Pirates a 67-65
victory over second-seeded Temple in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
"I just tried to step up when I saw him go down," Shine said
of Holloway, who hurt his ankle eight minutes into the game and had
to be carried off the court. "I was just ready for my opportunity.
When I got into the game we were kind of down. I just wanted to
provide a boost."
He started a 3-point barrage that turned a 14-8 deficit into a
31-29 halftime lead and it didn't stop in the second half, even
against Temple's vaunted mathcup zone. The Pirates finished
15-for-30 from 3-point range, and Shine was 7-for-11.
The last of those 3s gave the Pirates a 66-65 lead and had
Holloway, who was sitting at the end of the bench in a wheelchair
with his leg elevated and ankle wrapped in ice, standing and
jumping on his good leg.
"I don't know what to say. Last year when I got hurt Ty stepped
up, and he did the same thing today," Holloway said, referring to
a neck injury that kept him out of six games last season. "When I
went down, I was afraid this was going to be my last college game.
I didn't want it to end like this. I don't know what's going to
happen now, but it's great that we advanced."
Seton Hall (22-9) moves on to face third-seeded Oklahoma State,
which beat 11th-seeded Pepperdine 75-67, on Friday in the regional
semifinals in Syracuse. Holloway was to start treatment Sunday
night and his status was to be determined.
Temple coach John Chaney, 68, saw yet another season end without him
reaching his first Final Four. Many considered this Chaney's best team and he was a natural sentimental choice.
"This team certainly had a lot more talent and a lot more depth
than any team I've had since I've been involved but your best team
isn't always the team that wins," Chaney said.
The Pirates have won both their games in overtime, and this was
the fifth overtime game of the tournament, two off the record set
in 1995. Seton Hall is 4-0 in overtime this season.
This is Seton Hall's fourth trip to the round of 16 but it
didn't look as if the Pirates would be going anywhere when
Holloway, the hero of the opening-round victory over Oregon with a
length-of-the court drive with 1.7 seconds left in overtime,
injured his left ankle eight minutes into the game on a drive to
the basket.
|  | | Seton Hall's Ty Shine shoots the game-winning 3-pointer over Temple's Lynn Greer in overtime. |
While he was at the hospital for X-rays, the Pirates started
raining 3s.
The 15 3s broke the East Regional record of 14 set by Penn in
1995 and matched by Long Island University in 1997, but both of
those came in losses.
Rimas Kaukenas, who was 4-of-7 on 3s, added 18 points for the
Pirates, while Darius Lane had 16 points and was 4-for-12 from
beyond the arc.
The Pirates were 8-for-14 from 3-point range in the win over
Oregon and they kept the long-range accuracy up against Temple.
"We said we were going to live with our shots," Seton Hall
coach Tommy Amaker said. "We couldn't leave here holding anything
back. We said we were going to attack and shoot our shots. We're a
team that can kind of get on a roll a little bit."
Shine started that roll.
"He's at a high level," Amaker said of the junior from
Augusta, Ga. "He's a kid that has gotten better, and I think one
of the reasons he's gotten better and been able to compete at this
level is because he goes against Shaheen every day in practice."
Mark Karcher, who led Temple (27-6) with 27 points, tied the
game at 57 with 24 seconds left in regulation.
The Pirates had a chance to win it, but Shine spun into trouble
and fed the ball to Kevin Wilkins. His 12-footer bounced off the
rim at the buzzer.
Karcher made one of two free throws with 41 seconds left to give
Temple a 65-63 lead, but that was emblematic of the Owls' problems
all game as they finished 6-for-18 from the line. Karcher was
3-for-8.
"That's the kind of downer you can get," Chaney said. "Things
just don't go well in that game for us from the foul line and they
make shots from 23, 24, 25 feet with a hand in their face."
After Shine's 3-pointer with 18 seconds remaining, Temple worked
the ball around for a final shot but Lynn Greer, forced to play the
point because Pepe Sanchez had fouled out with 37 seconds left in
regulation, threw the ball away under the basket.
"I drove to the hole and went up to shoot but the big guy
(Samuel Dalembert) came up and I tired to dish to Lamont (Barnes)
but I threw the ball too hard," Greer said.
Greg Morton was fouled immediately and made one of two free
throws for a 67-65 lead. Greer's 3-pointer from a couple of steps
inside midcourt bounced off the rim.
"I thought it was good," Morton said.
Greer finished with 13 points, all in the final 12:11 of
regulation and overtime. Quincy Wadley also had 13.
Chaney has had the Owls to the NCAA Tournament in all but two of
his 18 seasons at Temple, including the last 11.
"We're sorry we let him down. We thought we had a chance this
year," Greer said. "We tried our hardest but it wasn't enough."
Sanchez, who had no points and 15 assists in the opening-round
win over Lafayette, had six assists and two points on 1-for-6
shooting in his final college game.
"We're very disappointed and I feel very empty," Sanchez said.
"The tournament is very difficult to play in with a lot of
pressure. I guess we were able to handle all the pressure and
perform the way we had to perform. That makes us a good team not a
great team. We got what we deserved."
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