Courtney leaves the northernmost stretch of the state, some 26 counties by his estimation, as the name many a Texan knows it by – the Panhandle. Just south of the Panhandle is a region dubbed the Greater Panhandle Plains. Courtney then delineates North Texas as the region immediately east of it.
South Florida visits the Temple Owls after Brandon Stroud scored 20 points in the Bulls' 64-57 loss to the North Texas Mean Green.