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As a rematch, Tuesday's game between defending Tennessee state champion East and defending Mississippi state champion Olive Branch at the Landers Center in Southaven left a little to be desired.
At the end of the night, they posed for photos. Malcolm Dandridge on the left, DJ Jeffries in the middle, James Wiseman on the right.
Center James Wiseman committed Tuesday to play college basketball at the University of Memphis – among the biggest recruiting successes in the program’s history and a huge accomplishment for first-year coach Penny Hardaway.
Kentucky coach John Calipari acknowledged Tuesday he may be “overrated” as a recruiter after losing the battle with his former employer – the University of Memphis – to sign top prospect James Wiseman.
Penny Hardaway and his staff are attempting to top the short-notice recruiting job from the spring with their Class of 2019. Memphis has three commitments in the Class of 2019 with big targets still up on the board. Here’s who Hardaway is after and more.
James Wiseman, the nation’s top college basketball prospect, will announce his college decision Tuesday morning on ESPN's SportsCenter.
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James Wiseman, the nation’s No. 1 prospect, will announce Tuesday his decision on where he will play college basketball during an appearance on ESPN’s SportsCenter at 11 a.m. CST.
Head coach Penny Hardaway isn’t fooled by his 2-1 record. He sees too much gambling on defense or bad spacing on offense and knows his Tigers have a long way to go.
On a mid-November Saturday night inside FedExForum, it felt like mid-March and the first round of the NCAA Tournament. For 45 minutes – through regulation and the first overtime – Memphis and Yale competed, overcame, refused to blink.
Tyler Harris stepped to the line with 2.9 seconds left needing to hit three straight free throws to tie the game and send it into overtime.
Head coach Penny Hardaway believes his Tigers (1-1) can’t look past a tough Yale (1-0) team this Saturday in FedExForum.
Guard Jeremiah Martin was one of the last ones out of the locker room prior to the LSU game. He saw Karim Sameh Azab’s No. 23 jersey where the center should have been sitting.
Penny Hardaway and his staff are attempting to top the short-notice recruiting job from the spring with their Class of 2019. Memphis has two commitments in the Class of 2019 with big targets still up on the board. Here’s who Hardaway is after and more:
The University of Memphis announced the signings of class of 2019 forward DJ Jeffries and center Malcolm Dandridge this afternoon.
Memphis (1-1) fell 85-76 to LSU (3-0) in their first road test of the season. Here are highlights, struggles and takeaways from the game.
Memphis (1-1) challenged No. 22 LSU (3-0) in head coach Penny Hardaway’s first road test of the season. Here are the tip-ins and turnovers from the first loss of his career.
BATON ROUGE — Memphis guard Tyler Harris is listed at 5-9. LSU forward Kavell Bigby-Williams is listed at 6-11. So there’s no reasonable way to explain what Harris did with 14:39 left in the second half.
When Penny Hardaway debuted at Memphis the first time, people wore tuxes.
Penny Hardaway’s final assignment at the University of Memphis – the final assignment before he could get his degree – was a paper on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
Not that long ago, basketball was a game with well-defined positions. The NBA has made that a thing of the past.
Penny Hardaway is beginning his first year as coach of the Memphis Tigers — doesn’t that still seem surreal, reading it? — and Geoff Calkins of The Daily Memphian is going to write the book.
Jeremiah Martin dropped in one 3-pointer, then he dropped in another 3-pointer, then FedExForum erupted in joy.
When the University of Memphis hired the city’s favorite son last March, Penny Hardaway spoke of returning the program to the glory days and the feeling that it was like a “family reunion.”
The Penny Hardaway era got off to a successful start on Tuesday night as Memphis defeated Tennessee Tech 76-61 in the season-opener for both teams.
Penny Hardaway accepted the Memphis head coaching job knowing he had a player already on the roster who would help instill his culture.
Everything will be different when Memphis tips off against Tennessee Tech at FedExForum on Tuesday night.
Now that the exhibition portion of the season is over, I offer the following thought: The Memphis Tigers could win the tournament.
No more glorified scrimmages. No more having an overwhelming talent advantage over local Division II opponents -- LeMoyne Owen College and Christian Brothers University – that are just happy to be on the FedExForum court and playing the University of Memphis.
Memphis cruised to a 95-68 win over CBU in the final exhibition game of the season. Here are the tip-ins and turnovers from the win.
Head coach Penny Hardaway voiced frustration with forward Lance Thomas’ waiver situation in Thursday’s media availability.
November 12, 2014, inside FedExForum: CBU 74, Memphis 70 in overtime.
Four-star guard Boogie Ellis posted on social media Tuesday afternoon that Memphis is included in the top five schools he is considering.
He couldn’t even wait until 10 a.m.
The Memphis Tigers brought back one walk-on from last year’s roster – guard Evin Olds. He is familiar with the head coach, returnees and newcomers.
Olive Branch head coach Eric Rombaugh walked into basketball tryouts four years ago and wasn’t prepared for what was waiting for him.
Four-star forward DJ Jeffries committed to Memphis on Saturday morning confirming coach Penny Hardaway’s notion he would land more than one commitment in the early-signing period.
The man never sat down.
LeMoyne-Owen head coach Willie Anderson walked off the court after the Magicians’ 120-66 exhibition loss to Memphis hoping his team learned from their mistakes.
Freshman Alex Lomax had the ball and the Memphis Tigers had a two-on-one advantage on LeMoyne-Owen’s half of the court. Lomax stopped behind the 3-point line on the left wing and took measure of his shot. Across the way, the 19th head coach in Tigers history and the third alum, Anfernee Penny Hardaway, shouted: “No, no, no!”
The much-anticipated debut of Penny Hardaway on the Memphis sideline was a runaway success Thursday night as the Tigers easily defeated LeMoyne-Owen 120-66 in the first semi-official game of the Hardaway era.
Memphis drummed Lemoyne-Owen in head coach Penny Hardaway’s debut as the Tigers coach. Here are the tip-ins and turnovers from the win.
Let’s start with what he’ll wear. What will Penny Hardaway wear in his first game as Memphis coach?
If Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway was offered a chance at $125,000 to skip a year of college and go to the G-League, he would decline.
The American Athletic Conference coaches predicted Monday that the Memphis Tigers will finish fourth this season.
If Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway could look back at his career and tell himself one thing it would be to leave everything on the line against opponents.
Memphis forward Raynere Thornton took a pass at the 3-point line of the Laurie-Walton Family Basketball Center practice floor. A dribble later Thornton moved the ball to the opposite corner where guard David Wingett was open for a three.
Resh Short drove in from Cincinnati. He hopped in his car and pointed it toward Memphis and arrived by the time the doors opened at 6 p.m.
The Memphis Tigers basketball fan base had waited months for the moment. Since mid-March at least.
The Memphis Tigers plan to host a bevy of recruits for Memphis Madness Thursday night. The festivities include a scrimmage and surprise special guests. The University of Memphis announced the schedule and details Wednesday afternoon. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts an hour later.
The Memphis Tigers released the schedule for Thursday night’s long-anticipated Memphis Madness event at FedExForum, the christening of coach Penny Hardaway’s inaugural season.
It will be the Memphis sports moment of the year. It will be a moment that summons the past and embraces the future and celebrates the return of a favorite son.
Forward Kyvon Davenport was never better than in the Memphis Tigers’ first-round 79-77 victory over USF in the American Athletic Conference Tournament last March. Career-high 29 points, nine rebounds, 10-for-13 from the floor, 4-for-7 from 3-point range.
Derrick Rose brought down the house with a preposterous dunk. Rapper Rick Ross canceled on his first Madness visit but made it for the next. Gary Parrish won a chicken-wing eating contest, Larry Finch returned (after he was fired) to coach an alumni game and D.J. Stephens paid tribute to one of the greatest Memphis players ever by wearing his jersey for a dunk contest. All these things happened at Memphis Madness, which is what John Calipari renamed it sometime along the way. So here’s the complete and colorful history of the event, drawn from my notes, columns, memories and newspaper archives.
The peak and the valley arrived on a Thursday night in late February at FedExForum.
When shooting guard Ryan Boyce asked out of his signed National Letter of Intent to UAB he was 100 percent sure he was making the right move by decommitting from the Blazers.
Memphis point guard Jeremiah Martin stepped onto the floor over the summer and immediately knew the talent Penny Hardaway put together plus what was returning would be better than the Tigers projected No. 8 finish in the American Athletic Conference.
Four-star forward DJ Jeffries and his family stepped on the University of Memphis campus last weekend with a sense of familiarity with the coaching staff and program.
The American Athletic Conference announced the Memphis conference basketball schedule Wednesday with the Tigers opening against Gregg Marshall and the Wichita State on Jan. 3 in the first conference game of Penny Hardaway’s coaching career.
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