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Temple to play Wichita State, Cincinnati just once in coming basketball season

Temple will have home-and-home series with seven teams.

Junior guard Shizz Alston Jr. points to a teammate during the Owls' game against UCF at The Liacouras Center on Sunday, February 25, 2018. SYDNEY SCHAEFER / Staff Photographer
Junior guard Shizz Alston Jr. points to a teammate during the Owls' game against UCF at The Liacouras Center on Sunday, February 25, 2018. SYDNEY SCHAEFER / Staff PhotographerRead moreSYDNEY SCHAEFER
    by Marc Narducci | Columnist
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Temple will play NCAA tournament teams Wichita State and Cincinnati just once during the coming basketball season, as the American Athletic Conference announced its conference pairings Thursday.

AAC teams will play 18 conference games, with dates and times to be released later.

Temple will have home-and-home series against seven teams: Central Florida, Connecticut, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, Tulane and Tulsa.

The four teams that Temple will play just once are Cincinnati and SMU at home and Wichita State and East Carolina on the road.

Temple is coming off a 17-16 season in which it lost to eventual champion Penn State in the first round of the NIT.

Last season, the AAC had three NCAA tournament teams: Cincinnati, Wichita State and Houston. Temple played all three twice and was 1-5 in those games, with the lone win an 81-79 overtime victory at home over Wichita State.