WASHINGTON (AP) -- Temple is tough enough to play because of its defense. When the Owls also shoot 60 percent, look out.

Owls' Chaney vents

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Upset over having to suspend his starting center, John Chaney vented his anger on two fronts. First, the Temple coach ripped the NCAA over its rules, then questioned the ethics of the reporter who broke the story. On Friday, the day before Temple's trip to the nation's capital to play George Washington, Chaney suspended Kevin Lyde. He said he did so after a call from Josh Barr, a Washington Post reporter who called the university on Thursday to ask about a summer course Lyde took as a 17-year-old high school student in 1997. At issue is whether Lyde's family or his Amateur Athletic Union coach paid for the course. The Post said Lyde, a Washington native, admitted that his coach paid for course in an interview with the paper in October. "You want my honest to God words?" Chaney said after Temple routed GW 98-67. "I don't think you want to hear me. You guys have heard me storm out before. "If there was a book that had every profane word you could think of, I would put them in a couple of -- you would need more than one -- trash can and heave it onto the NCAA. Temple has hired an independent law firm to investigate the allegation. Athletic director Dave O'Brien said he hoped a report would be filed and that the matter will be resolved with the NCAA on Monday. "I don't know how they're going to investigate us," Chaney said. "I didn't even know Kevin in the 11th grade. I didn't even know this rule existed." Chaney then questioned the Post reporter's tactics, pointing out that the interview with Lyde took place long before the game at GW. "I know you guys are competing," Chaney said. "But as your competition grows, you begin to create more of a problem. l guess you want to get famous, I don't know. Whoever did that _-- it's down here in your area -- I think you need to take a look at the ethics in that." Washington Post sports editor George Solomon defended the story, saying that work on a more general story on NCAA infractions prompted the call to Temple. "In a story about AAU basketball which appeared in January, our reporters uncovered certain information," Solomon said. "There have been a number of suspensions by the NCAA to a number of college basketball players in the past month. On that, we set out to do a story on why there have been so many suspensions."

Temple (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 5 AP)held flashy freshman SirValiant Brown to his first single-digit scoring game and scored a season-high 98 points in Saturday's 98-67 victory over George Washington.

"They were knocking down 3s left and right," George Washington coach Tom Penders said. "That was my worst nightmare."