Tigers Talk: Realistic expectations for Memphis basketball in 2025-26
Parth Upadhyaya and John Martin weigh in on expectations for Memphis heading into the 2025-26 season.
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Parth Upadhyaya and John Martin weigh in on expectations for Memphis heading into the 2025-26 season.
A key change announced by the NCAA includes a coach’s challenge at any point in a game to review out-of-bounds calls, basket interference/goaltending and whether a secondary defender was in the restricted area.
After spending three years away, LSU transfer and former MUS star point guard Curtis Givens III is making a homecoming with the Memphis Tigers.
A road matchup with Utah State in February could provide Memphis with an opportunity to be tested before heading into the postseason.
With a little more than five months to go until the start of college basketball’s 2025-26 regular season in November, the Tigers have situations to resolve and wrinkles to iron out.
Here’s a potential University of Memphis basketball 2025-26 rotation and depth chart ahead of the Tigers’ start of summer workouts Monday.
Here’s a list of prospective transfers that Tigers coach Penny Hardaway and his staff have been in contact with, as reported by The Daily Memphian and national outlets.
Guard PJ Haggerty, the 2024-25 AAC Player of the Year, is headed to Kansas State after one season at Memphis.
Zachary Davis, a transfer from South Carolina, believes he’s found a “home away from home” with coach Penny Hardaway’s Memphis Tigers.
The Tigers have brought in eight players via the NCAA transfer portal this offseason. Only one is a true big man.
The Tigers will be one of four teams in the 2025 Baha Mar Hoops Bahamas Championship.
In an era in which it’s far from a given that the best local talent stays home to play for the Tigers, transfer Julius Thedford is the type of player Memphis diehards point to when making the case for the Tigers still owning the title of “The City’s Team.”
Parth Upadhyaya and John Martin weigh in on the Tigers’ basketball roster rebuild, the possibility of a PJ Haggerty return and more.
Memphis is facing Mississippi State as part of a home-and-home series the programs began this past season when the Tigers fell to the Bulldogs 79-66.
Incoming Tigers transfer Dug McDaniel, a 5-foot-11 guard, averaged 11.4 points, 4.9 assists, 2.8 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game this past season for Kansas State.
Memphis Tigers basketball will have at least one familiar face on its roster for the 2025-26 season.
Tigers transfer pickup Aaron Bradshaw is a 7-foot-1 big man who averaged 6.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per game as a sophomore for Ohio State this past season.
If you’re looking for a live up-to-date look at Memphis’ latest roster rebuild heading into the 2025-26 season, The Daily Memphian has you covered.
Forward Bouna Kebe, reportedly now in the NCAA transfer portal, redshirted this past season after transferring to Memphis following two seasons at a junior college. Penny Hardaway says door not ‘closed’ on PJ Haggerty return to Memphis Tigers Basketball Insider: PJ Haggerty reportedly seeking ‘at least’ $4 millionRelated content:
Parker, a 6-foot-3 guard, averaged 12.2 points and 2.5 rebounds per game while shooting 30.1% from 3-point range and 43.7% from the floor for the Cowboys of the Southland Conference this past season.
PJ Haggerty, now in the NCAA transfer portal, averaged 21.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game this past season for the Memphis Tigers.
Zachary Davis — a 6-foot-7 defensive-minded wing — averaged 8.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals in 26.4 minutes per game as a junior for the Gamecocks in 2024-25.
Thedford, a 6-foot-4 combo guard, averaged 12.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting 36.6% from 3-point range for the Hilltoppers as a freshman this past season.
Memphis basketball is putting some cushioning on what many expect to be another grueling nonconference schedule in the 2025-26 season.
The younger Hardaway is a former four-star recruit in the 2023 class who began his college career at Memphis as a true freshman in the 2023-24 season before transferring to Saint Mary’s ahead of this past season.
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