Hardaway believes he’s been ‘a target,’ received unwarranted ‘negativity’
“I knew when I got this job that I was gonna be a target,” Tigers coach Penny Hardaway said Monday night during his weekly Penny Hardaway Radio Show at Brookhaven Pub & Grill. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
In a season where his team has gone from being ranked No. 10 in the AP Top 25 poll to out of the NCAA Tournament picture entirely in a span of a month, the Tigers’ coach feels he’s been a punching bag of sorts.
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Parth Upadhyaya
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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