New season, new team: How good will the 2025-26 Memphis Tigers be?
From left to right, Zachary Davis, Dug McDaniel and Aaron Bradshaw. (Scott Kinser, Charlie Riedel, Sam Craft/AP file)
The Memphis Tigers’ 2025-26 basketball season continues to inch closer.
Coach Penny Hardaway told reporters earlier this week that his team would meet for its first preseason practice Wednesday, Aug. 27, two days after Monday’s start of the fall semester.
While Hardaway and his staff got a feel for their roster this summer, most Memphis fans have little-to-no idea of what to expect from this fresh crop of Tigers — especially considering the group features zero returnees from last season.
How good is this team? Which players will be fixtures in the rotation? Who will be the leading scorers, facilitators and rebounders?
Data from BartTorvik.com, an advanced analytics website that uses predictive metrics, gives us an idea on all of this — and more.
Here’s what Torvik’s 2025-26 season projections suggest about Memphis:
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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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