Dates set for Tigers basketball games against Clemson, Virginia
The Memphis Tigers now have dates for six of their 13 non-conference games.
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The Memphis Tigers now have dates for six of their 13 non-conference games.
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:
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 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.
Cooper, the stepson of Rodney Newsom — a former Tigers forward from 1992 to 1996 who was teammates with coach Penny Hardaway — totaled eight points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in 50 minutes through six games last season.
Davis most recently spent six seasons as coach of Detroit Mercy, with stops at Indiana, UAB and Texas Southern.
After Penny Hardaway put his trust in him more than a year ago, Nicholas Jourdain returned the favor this offseason. They both are confident that will pay off with a strong season for the Tigers.
Even this deep into the offseason, there are still a handful of viable candidates available for the Tigers to replace a player the caliber of David Jones, who officially left for the 2024 NBA Draft on Wednesday.
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The first game of the Memphis-Ole Miss series will be played on Dec. 28, 2024, at FedExForum.
Coach Penny Hardaway’s team will open the 2024-25 season with an SEC foe.
Jones, an All-AAC first-team selection and AP honorable mention All-American last season, has officially shut the door on his time with the Tigers.
Vieira-Tuck, a 6-foot-4 combo guard, spent this past season playing for S.L. Benfica of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol, a Portuguese professional basketball league.
With less than a week to go until the Tigers’ June 1 start of summer workouts, coach Penny Hardaway looks to be in position to have most of his team on campus.
Parth Upadhyaya and John Martin discuss the several new additions to the Memphis Tigers’ roster, David Jones’ future and more.
The front end of the series will be played at Memphis’ FedExForum in 2024-25, with a return game in Starkville, Mississippi, expected to be played during the 2025-26 season. Related story:
If Jones also withdraws from the draft, it’ll all but guarantee his return to Memphis for the 2024-25 season in what will be his fifth and final season of eligibility.
“Yes, I’m coming back — 100%,” Nicholas Jourdain said on an episode of The Penny Hardaway Show recorded April 12 but aired Sunday.
A source confirmed to The Daily Memphian on Thursday afternoon that Memphis postponed the visit for the 6-foot-9 big man from North Carolina’s Word of God Christian Academy.
If David Jones returns to the Memphis Tigers, he could be one of only two scholarship returnees and four returnees overall.
The front end of a two-game series with the Runnin’ Rebels will be played in Las Vegas, with a return game at FedExForum expected to be played in the 2025-26 season.
The Tigers will get to play in the Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center next season. Tigers beat writer Parth Upadhyaya’s newest AP Top 25 ballotRelated story:
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