Weather impacts sports in Texas

The wintry blast causing misery across Texas has prompted the postponement of an NBA game in Dallas, a second consecutive NHL game and disrupted the college basketball schedule for a number of teams.

The Mavericks and Pistons were supposed to play Wednesday night. NHL games scheduled for Monday and Tuesday between the Stars and Predators had already been scrapped. No makeup dates were announced.

The shuffling of pro events came amid adjustments for several men’s and women’s college basketball games in Texas because of frigid temperatures and icy conditions for traveling.

The NBA said the Pistons-Mavericks postponement was because of a “government shutdown” of American Airlines Center, home of the Mavs and Stars. The league didn’t elaborate.

A flurry of adjustments for Big 12 Conference men’s and women’s games continued Tuesday because of the extreme cold.

The No. 12 Texas men’s visit to No. 9 Oklahoma was moved back a day to Thursday after originally getting bumped from Tuesday to Wednesday because of the weather. The league also postponed the Longhorns’ road game against Iowa State that was scheduled for Thursday night.

No. 15 Texas Tech was supposed to play consecutive games against TCU this week, one of those a rescheduled game from last month because of COVID-19 issues in the TCU program. The game originally scheduled for Monday in Fort Worth was pushed to Thursday. The game in Lubbock was moved up a day to Tuesday, but that was called off amid plunging temperatures.