Welcome to this week’s Tigers Basketball Insider. Below you’ll find the latest news and analysis from The Daily Memphian’s Parth Upadhyaya, John Martin and Tim Buckley.

It was less than two weeks ago that Memphis basketball didn’t have anything that even resembled a complete roster.

When All-American guard PJ Haggerty entered the NCAA transfer portal April 17, the 2025-26 Tigers featured four transfer portal acquisitions — Zachary Davis from South Carolina, Julius Thedford (Western Kentucky), Ashton Hardaway (Saint Mary’s) and Quante Berry (Temple) — along with Overtime Elite’s Daniel Vieira-Tuck, junior college transfer Felipe Patino and lone guaranteed returnee Dante Harris.

A decent start? Sure. 

But those seven players alone don’t guarantee a sure-fire NCAA Tournament berth — let alone the deep March Madness run Tiger fans have craved for more than a decade.

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