What to watch in Memphis’ road game against Rice
Memphis Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway, center, looks on during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against UAB on Jan. 26. (Nikki Boertman/AP file)
Penny Hardaway’s redemption tour continues on.
Coach Hardaway and his No. 19 Tigers (17-4, 7-1 AAC) have largely shown this season they’re a different team than they were a year ago when they started off the 2023-24 campaign 15-2 but faltered in American Athletic Conference play.
The group — after returning only one scholarship player and two staff members from a season ago — is knocking off the same AAC foes that it lost to last year.
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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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