Tulsa was originally scheduled to play at Temple on March 2. However, each team sustained a COVID-19 postponement of its previously scheduled American Athletic Conference game, so the league decided to engage in some creative schedule gymnastics.

As a result, the Golden Hurricane and Owls will instead play on Tuesday in Philadelphia, enabling both to avoid long layoffs as well as giving them both a chance to wash out the taste of a lopsided loss to No. 6 Houston.

Temple (3-4, 2-4 AAC) took a 68-51 beating at the Cougars' hands Saturday in Philly, while Tulsa (8-5, 5-3) absorbed an 86-59 blowout in Houston on Wednesday night. That one seemed inevitable, given that the Golden Hurricane handed the Cougars their only loss on Dec. 29.