ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Dionte Christmas had a real horrorshow first half, dropping 19 points as Temple leads by eight, 43-35. He's 7-of-10 shots and made all his two-point attempts. Temple's Mark Tyndale is 3-for-4 from the floor for 11; he also has six rebounds.

La Salle has two players with 10 points, Darnell Harris (who had 2 for most of the half) and Rodney Green. The Explorers have 7 offensive rebounds. Temple is shooting 55.6 percent from the floor, and both teams have three triples.

The halftime show tonight: Another trampoline act! This one is the "dunk off the trampoline" variety as opposed to last night's tumbling act. It's called the Extreme Team and had one of its members jump over the entire TU cheerleader squad. They also get really, really excited whenever one of them dunks it.

My favorite Extreme Team member is the fat one.