 Temple was given a four seed in the 2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament; they received a bye and faced Saint Joseph's in the quarterfinals.In the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Temple was seeded eleventh in the South Regional, where they faced the sixth-seeded Arizona State Sun Devils in the first round.On March 20, 2009, behind a then career-high 22 points by Sun Devil Derek Glasser, Arizona State eliminated Temple 66–57.