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Temple coach Fran Dunphy enters the NCAA tournament on a record 11-game losing streak

Fran Dunphy has a career coaching resume that anyone at any level should envy. He has 419 wins. Ivy League and Atlantic 10 titles. He leads the Coaches vs. Cancer campaign. Even teaches a class at Temple.Dunphy has accomplished so much that matters — except lead his team into the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.Dunphy's failures in March are the lone black mark on a head coaching career that started at Penn in 1989.Dunphy, in his fifth season at Temple, has the longest losing streak of any coach in the history of the NCAA tournament.He has lost 11 straight tournament games dating back to his time coaching the Quakers. He is 0-3 with the Owls, including a loss last season as a No. 5 seed. Dunphy's lone win with the Quakers came in 1994.Dunphy's NCAA tournament record is 1-12 and his .077 winning percentage is the all-time worst for a coach with at least eight games coached, according to STATS LLC.Utah State coach Stew Morrill is 1-8. Utah State beat Boise State in the Western Athl...

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