Dunphy new Temple coach

PHILADELPHIA – Fran Dunphy, who turned Penn into an NCAA tournament regular, will take over at Temple to replace Hall of Fame coach John Chaney, a school official told the Associated Press on Sunday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made. The school had a news conference scheduled for today.

Dunphy, who has deep basketball ties to Philadelphia, won 10 Ivy League championships and led the Quakers to nine NCAA tournaments, including a first-round loss to Texas this season. He went 310-163 record in 17 seasons at Penn and won three coveted Big 5 city series titles.

Now he will try to win one with scholarship players.

The 57-year-old Dunphy takes over for the 74-year-old Chaney, who retired last month after guiding Temple to 17 NCAA tournament appearances in 24 seasons. Dunphy inherits a program that went 17-15 this season and has dipped this decade, playing in five straight NITs.

Named coach in 1989 after one season as an assistant under Tom Schneider, Dunphy had losing seasons his first two years at Penn before leading it to a 16-10 mark in 1991-92. That started a run of Ivy League dominance that included the last two conference titles, four of the last five, six of the last eight and 10 of the last 14.