Louisville ‘working really hard’ to start series with Memphis basketball
Memphis' Michael Dixon Jr. (11) looks to the basket between Louisville's Stephan Van Treese (44) and Terry Rozier, right, in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Dixon scored 18 points in Memphis' 72-66 victory over Louisville. (Danny Johnston/AP Photo file)
The programs have faced each other 86 times, with Louisville leading the all-time series 50-36. They last met on Dec. 16, 2017, when the Cardinals beat the Tigers 81-72 in New York’s Madison Square Garden as part of the Gotham Classic.
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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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