PHILADELPHIA - Temple's second-straight American Athletic Conference road game will take the Owls (9-6, 0-2) to SMU (12-3, 2-0) in search of their first league win on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9 p.m. EST (CBSSN / 1210 AM WPHT). Temple ended then-No. 8 SMU's 18-game unbeaten streak last January in the only meeting between the two teams in 2015-16.
The Owls have suffered back-to-back losses against No. 23/23 Cincinnati (56-50) and at UCF (77-53) to open conference play. Both Temple and Cincinnati shot season-low percentages from the field in that contest, and the Owls were unable to recover from their worst first half of the season at UCF that saw them hit just 4-of-29 from the field (13.