| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 2019-20 |
| Prev Year: | 2018-19 |
| Team: | Temple Owls |
| Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
| Short Conf: | AAC |
| Record: | 14–17 |
| Conf Record: | 6–12 |
| Hc Year: | 1st |
| Asst Coach1: | Chris Clark |
| Asst Coach2: | Jimmy Fenerty |
The 2019–20 Temple Owls men's basketball team represents Temple University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Owls, led by first-year head coach Aaron McKie, play their home games at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia as a member of the American Athletic Conference.[1]
The Owls finished the 2018–19 season 23–10, 13–5 in AAC play to finish in third place. As the 3-seed in the AAC tournament, the Owls lost to sixth-seeded Wichita State in the first round.[2] They received a bid to the NCAA tournament as an 11th seed, where they lost to Belmont in the First Four.[3]
The season was head coach Fran Dunphy's final season as Temple head coach. The school announced on April 13, 2018, that he would step down at the end of the 2019 season and that top assistant and former Owls star Aaron McKie would succeed him.[4]
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | G | 6'4" | 180 | Graduated | ||||
| Ernest Aflakpui | 24 | C | 6'10" | 240 | Graduated |
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Forrester | 10 | F | 6'8" | 215 | Transferred from Indiana. Forrester was granted a waiver for immediate eligibility. Will have three years of remaining eligibility. | |||
| Tai Strickland | 13 | G | 6'2" | 180 | Transferred from Wisconsin. Under NCAA transfer rules, Strickland will have to sit out the 2019–20 season. Will have three years of remaining eligibility. |
In the preseason, Temple was picked to finish seventh in the American Athletic Conference by the league coaches. Senior guard Quinton Rose was picked to the preseason First Team All-AAC while junior guard Nate Pierre-Louis was picked to the preseason Second Team All-AAC.[5]
|-!colspan=12 style=|Regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| AAC tournament
1.Cancelled due to the Coronavirus Pandemic