Ramone Moore: First time we ever met was at a basketball game. I was going into my senior year (at Southern High School). I heard there was this pretty good kid at Roman, but he was a few years behind me.
Maalik Wayns: I remember I actually came to a game here (at the Liacouras Center) when he had like 40 (points) on Chester . . . Ever since, we became close.
DN: Is it a little different coming up in the Catholic League vs. the Public, or is city ball city ball?
RM: I think it might be different, but you can say city ball is city ball. During my senior year, there was a lot of good competition with myself, the (Morris) twins, but the Catholic League always has that, too.
MW: It's all the same, just a little different. They play during the day, we play at night.
DN: Is there a kind of rivalry thing there? (Ramone) went to the big Public university, (Maalik) went to the big Catholic school?
MW: Between us, no. I mean, between the schools probably always. We're friends. We don't really let it get to us.
DN: But when you guys get together during the summer, is there a lot of that going on?
RM: No, just going out there trying to make each other better, really. That's all it is.
DN: How did you wind up at Temple?
RM: Probably during the middle of my senior year, they contacted me, wanted to recruit me. But at first they didn't have a scholarship available. I was going to do prep school, but before I decided, one became available so I decided to stay home, which was one of the things that I wanted to do, just because of family reasons.
DN: And (Maalik) always wanted to go to Villanova, right? You kind of had your mind made up early in life. Was that a Jay Wright thing?
MW: Yeah, you could say that. It was a little bit of both. A lot of schools that recruited me were kind of far (away), and I'm a Philly kid, so I just always wanted to stay home, and always wanted Villanova.
