The Owls and the Quakers are both set for their first games on their respective home floors tonight, while Saint Joe’s gets No. 7 Purdue down in Paradise. After the jump, let’s take a look.

* Temple (1-1) has had four days to put that disappointing loss down at No. 19/20 Georgetown behind it. But tonight’s home opener against Siena at 7 at the Liacouras certainly won’t be easy. The Saints (2-0) have wins over Tennessee State and Northeastern, and they were picked to win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for a third straight season. 6-0 senior guard Ronald Moore — a Plymouth Whitemarsh graduate — was the guy who had hit both a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation and a game-winning trey at the end of overtime in the first round of last year’s NCAA tournament against Ohio State. Four starters are back from last year, and the lone newbie — 6-3 junior Clarence Jackson — had 24 points in the win over Tennessee State. Siena, in other words, is pretty good. And they’ve got a lot of Philly ties besides Moore: Head coach Fran McCaffrey is a graduate of La Salle High School and Penn; freshman Denzel Yard went to Franklin Learning Center; and sophomore Kyle Griffin is a La Salle transfer. The Albany, N.Y., Times-Union has a pretty good feature on Moore’s and McCaffrey’s Philly ties here.

* The Quakers (0-2) play the season’s first game at the P-spot tonight at 7 when they host 0-2 Delaware, which has lost to Temple and Bucknell. Tyler Bernardini had left Monday’s loss to Villanova with an injury to his right foot, and there’s no word on whether he’ll play tonight for Penn. Delaware is pretty inexperienced, having played four freshmen for big stretches last Saturday against Temple. So we’ll see.

* Saint Joe’s is 3-0 after last night’s impressive, 84-80 win over Boston College at the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. But tonight at 8:30 down there, the Hawks get No. 7 Purdue, which has just about everybody back from a team that won 27 games last year and reached the Sweet 16. The Boilermakers (2-0) have coasted past Cal-State Northridge and South Dakota State. For a more in-depth look, check out Collegehoopsnet.com’s season preview of them here.

Links: Temple downed by Georgetown [BIG FIVE POST]
Ronald Moore is from Philly [BIG FIVE POST]
Homecoming for Siena against Temple [Timesunion.com]
‘Nova blasts Penn; Penn loses Bernardini [The Inquirer]
Temple opens with easy win over Delaware [BIG FIVE POST]
Saint Joe’s 84, Boston College 80 [BIG FIVE POST]
2009-10 Purdue preview [collegehoopsnet.com]