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Coach Penny Hardaway’s Memphis Tigers played the Dominican Republic Select Team, whose roster was unknown until an hour before tipoff. (Parth Upadhyaya/The Daily Memphian)
The Tigers were pushed to their limit by the Dominican Republic Select Team before escaping with an overtime victory.
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Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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