Temple Basketball: 5 memorable moments of Quinton Rose career

2. Rose steals win on the boardwalk

Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City holds a special place for Owls fans; the Atlantic 10 held their conference tournaments there from 2007-2012, and it was there Temple most recently won a conference tournament. They did so three times in a row, from 2008-2010, and a banner still hangs from the building’s historic rafters honoring those teams’ accomplishments.

When the Owls returned to Boardwalk Hall for a neutral site game against Davidson in December of 2018, it was the other side of the ball where Quinton Rose sealed a dramatic win for the Owls; perhaps the biggest of his 231 career steals, Rose intercepted a KiShawn Pritchett pass with less than ten seconds left in a game Temple had to force into overtime, and slammed the game-winning bucket home in transition. The Owls had battled back through multiple deficits and finished the game on an 8-0 run that was capped first by a Shizz Alston, Jr. tying three-pointer before Rose turned Davidson over while they were holding for the overtime’s final shot.

1. Rose breaks tie with UCF on Senior Night, helps send Temple to the NCAA Tournament

Temple was 22-8 heading into the regular-season finale in 2019. A contest against #25 UCF – in what was Fran Dunphy’s last game coaching at Liacouras Center – had essentially become a play-in game for a Temple team sitting squarely on the NCAA Tournament bubble; a loss, and they would’ve needed a strong showing at the AAC Tournament in Memphis to fall onto the right side of the Selection Committee’s sheets. A win likely pushed them through.

UCF came out hot, but the game would stay close after Temple battled back in the first half. Around the four-minute mark of the second half, Quinton Rose broke a 52-52 tie with a massive dunk after slashing by all-conference Aubrey Dawkins on the wing.

Rose was fouled, a packed Liacouras Center exploded, and Temple wouldn’t relinquish the lead. The students stormed the court when time expired, and a week later Temple was given an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.