{"id":62596,"date":"2025-11-27T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62596\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:23:59","slug":"uri-beats-temple-in-florida-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62596\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Beats Temple in Florida Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date\">Thursday, November 27, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">GoLocalProv Sports Team<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-container\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n                    <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/cache\/images\/cached\/chrootmedia\/files\/article_files\/Jonah_Hinton_URI_Basketball_2025-26_492_592_90.jpg\" title=\"Jonah Hinton PHOTO: URI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jonah_Hinton_URI_Basketball_2025-26_360_433_90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"433\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      View Larger +<br \/>\n                    <\/a>\n                  <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Jonah Hinton PHOTO: URI<\/p>\n<p>              The University of Rhode Island men\u2019s basketball team defeated Temple 90-75 to win the fifth-place game at the Terry&#8217;s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rams (6-2) made a season-high 12 3-pointers &#8211; seven of which were by\u00a0Jonah Hinton\u00a0&#8211; and shot a season-best 55.2 percent from the field overall. In the second half, URI scored 49 points as it steadily pulled away from Temple (4-3).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/newsletter\" style=\"display:block;margin-bottom:10px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE &#8212; SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hinton (25 points) and\u00a0Tyler Cochran\u00a0(20 points) led an offense that reached 90 points for the second time this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reported crowd was 500, but the TV shots showed less than 100 spectators in the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DATA<\/p>\n<p>\tRhode Island had 19 assists while turning the ball over a season-low six times.<br \/>\n\tBoth teams were hot offensively in the first half. URI shot 50 percent 15-of-30 (50.0 percent), while Temple was 12-of-25 (48.0 percent).<br \/>\n\tIn the second half, Rhody heated up even more, shooting 60.7 percent (17-of-28).<br \/>\n\tThe last time URI beat Temple twice in a row was 2004-05 and 2005-06, the final two seasons for legendary coach John Chaney.<br \/>\n\tJonah Hinton\u00a0had a career-high 25 points while hitting 7-of-10 from 3-point range before fouling out.<br \/>\n\tHe is the first Ram with seven 3-pointers in a game since Ishmael Leggett against Tulane on Nov. 22, 2022.<br \/>\n\tTyler Cochran\u00a0had a season-high 20 points to go with nine rebounds, four assists and three steals.<br \/>\n\tJahmere Tripp\u00a0had 14 points and six rebounds. He was 5-of-7 from the field.<br \/>\n\tKeeyan Itejere\u00a0had 10 points, four blocked shots and four rebounds.<br \/>\n\tDamone King\u00a0provided a season-high seven points in 12 minutes off the bench.<br \/>\n\tRJ Johnson\u00a0had four points, five assists and three rebounds while leading the team with a plus-18 in 25 minutes off the bench.<br \/>\n\tRhody had a 40-26 edge in the paint and a 16-6 advantage in points off turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island returns home to host Brown on Tuesday, Dec. 2. The game will stream on ESPN+ and the Varsity Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              Related Articles<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>            Enjoy this post? 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