Tiger basketball players to greet fans at FedEx St. Jude Championship
University of Memphis fans who come to the FedEx St. Jude Championship next week will have the chance to meet a few Tigers basketball players.Related story:
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University of Memphis fans who come to the FedEx St. Jude Championship next week will have the chance to meet a few Tigers basketball players.Related story:
Memphis and UNLV have met five times previously but haven’t faced each other since the Tigers fell to the Runnin’ Rebels 66-62 in the first round of the 1997 National Invitation Tournament.
Phillips, a 6-foot-1 guard averaged 5.6 points for Lane College in 2023-24. He is the son of Faragi Phillips, the Tigers adviser to the head coach.
Memphis and Louisiana Tech have met three times before, with the Tigers owning a 2-1 all-time series lead over the Bulldogs of Conference USA.
How have the Tigers progressed in the off-season and what should we expect come November?
The Tigers will still face the defending national champion Gamecocks in the 2024-25 season, but the matchup will instead be an exhibition.
The Memphis Tigers now have dates for six of their 13 non-conference games.
A few of the nine total former Memphis Tigers playing in NBA Summer League shined over the past several weeks of competition.
Monday marks the start of Phase 2 of the Tigers’ three-phase, $220 million renovation of Liberty Stadium.
Davis’ new professional opportunity will take him to Australia to play for the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League (NBL).
LeBron James, a four-time NBA champion and 20-time All-Star, shouted out Penny Hardaway in a video posted to the NBA’s X (formerly Twitter) account Thursday.
The Tigers now know which AAC foes they’ll play twice and which ones they’ll face just once, at home or on the road.Related story:
Saturday will provide a few members of Penny Hardaway’s new-look Tigers with an opportunity to introduce themselves to fans and the local community.
New Memphis Tigers commit Damarien Yates averaged 7.2 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 43.4% from the floor and 31.1% from 3-point range for Vincennes University in Indiana.
The candle included in 1122 Candles’ Instagram post is white in a clear glass jar with black writing displayed on it that reads: “KEEP PARIS LIT,” followed by Nike’s Swoosh logo.
Carter, a 6-foot-5 Atlanta native, averaged 9.5 points and 2.4 rebounds while shooting 40.3% from 3-point range for AAC foe UTSA last season.
A little more than a year after his time as a volunteer assistant on coach Penny Hardaway’s staff at Memphis, Joey Dorsey is quickly climbing the coaching ladder.Related story:
The matchup between the Tigers and Red Wolves, members of the Sun Belt Conference, will mark only the teams’ third since 2010 and eighth since 2000.
Fans looking for an opportunity to cheer on former Tigers will have a chance to do so again this offseason.
Scott will earn an annual guaranteed compensation — or base salary — of $550,000 over a contract that spans five years, according to a memorandum of understanding obtained by The Daily Memphian.
Grimes spent time in Memphis this summer while training for the fourth straight offseason with Tigers coach Penny Hardaway, once an arch-rival.
Wiseman averaged 7.1 points and 5.3 rebounds in 63 games — the most games he’s played in a season in his four years in the NBA so far — for the Detroit Pistons last season.
Now, “all options have been exhausted,” a source told The Daily Memphian of Mills’ quest to gain another season of eligibility.
Mills, a 6-foot-5 guard who transferred to Memphis from Florida State in April 2023, suffered a patellar fracture in his left knee Jan. 4 in the Tigers’ road win over Tulsa. He underwent successful surgery Jan. 9.
Jeffries was a four-star, top-100 prospect out of Olive Branch High when he joined the Memphis Tigers as part of coach Penny Hardaway’s No. 1-ranked 2019 recruiting class.