Temple Not the King of This Court
The arena at the Meadowlands now known as Continental Airlines Arena has not been good to Temple.
Duke and Temple met in the 1988 East Regional final at the Meadowlands, with Duke beating top-seeded Temple, 63-53.
Temple also lost the 1991 East Regional final to North Carolina at the Meadowlands, 75-72.
“A guy who couldn’t make a basket if you put him on top of it and dropped [him] through it made a big shot,” Chaney said. “That was King Rice. I don’t think King Rice made a basket all year long. A terrible guard, and they called him King.”
Duke is 15-1 at the Meadowlands after defeating Temple, 85-64, on Sunday in the regional final.
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