Memphis ekes out win over North Texas in first AAC home game of season
Memphis guard PJ Haggerty (4), guard Tyrese Hunter (11), guard Baraka Okojie, third from left, and forward Dain Dainja, right, gather to celebrate a scoring run against North Texas during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Memphis. (Nikki Boertman/AP Photo)
The No. 21 Tigers did enough to pull off a 68-64 victory over the Mean Green and avoid what would’ve been deemed their second bad loss of the season Sunday.
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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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