By Matt Leon

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Temple Lady Owls will be trying to make it two straight wins tonight as they welcome a struggling Kent State squad to the Liacouras Center.

Temple is 3-5 and coming off an impressive victory over Auburn on Sunday, 73-57.   That win snapped a five-game losing streak.

Temple head coach Tonya Cardoza talks about what she has learned about her squad through eight games:

“That we’re resilient.  We are going to fight to the very end.  We have a very competitive spirit.  If the ball bounces a couple of different ways in some of those games, we’d have a couple more victories.  But I’m happy that in each one of those games we did compete against some of the very best teams out there.”

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Kent State staggers into Philadelphia with a record of 1-5.   So, what do they bring to the table?

“They play a lot like Villanova,” says Cardoza.  “It’s a lot of cutting, a lot of player screens.  It’s not really like a set offense, they are just constantly moving.”

Tipoff at the Liacouras Center is set for 7:00pm.

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