Memphis’ Team 901 looks to make run in The Basketball Tournament
Memphis Tigers teammates Chandler Lawson (left) and Conor Glennon (right) practice during media availability at the NCAA tournament March 16, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis will again be represented in The Basketball Tournament.
Team 901, which is returning to TBT for the first time since making its event debut in 2019, features an 11-man roster of players with 901 ties. Ten of those players attended Memphis-area high schools, with alums of Whitehaven, Arlington, East, Craigmont, Kingsbury, Overton, Wooddale and Cordova on the team.
Two — Shawn Taggart and Chandler Lawson — are former Memphis Tigers, too.
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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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