Calkins: The Tigers have to get over a heartbreaker. And quick!
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway’s Tigers basketball team lost on a buzzer-beater to Seton Hall, 70-69, Thursday in the first round of the ESPN Events Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
The Tigers lost to Seton Hall when a 6-10 player who hadn’t made a 3-pointer all season before Thursday banked one in at the buzzer. So how does the team get ready to play another game Friday? Former Memphis guard Trey Draper tried to help.
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