There are 8 article(s) tagged Season One:

• February 2019

  • Season One, Chapter 15: Psssst, Penny Hardaway’s first season already a success

    The record may be similar to the final Tubby Smith campaign, but the whole vibe of the Memphis Tigers season is happier, more enjoyable and optimistic about the future.

    By Geoff Calkins February 18, 2019

• January 2019

  • Season One, Chapter 12: Penny Hardaway and Memphis get a statement win

    Memphis smashed UCF in front of a raucous crowd at FedExForum to give Penny Hardaway a statement win.

     

    By Geoff Calkins January 28, 2019

  • Chapter 10: Penny Hardaway (barely) gets his first road win

    Calkins: Coach Penny Hardaway is upbeat as the Memphis Tigers get their first road win with an 83-79 victory over Tulane. “I knew that it was time for us to win a game on the road.”

    By Geoff Calkins January 14, 2019

  • Chapter Nine: Houston Cougars remind Penny Hardaway there’s a long way to go

    Calkins: Tigers’ youth on full display as freshmen fail to contribute in loss to No. 19 Houston Cougars.

    By Geoff Calkins January 07, 2019

• December 2018

  • Chapter Five: As his team struggles to take flight, Penny Hardaway buys the wings

    How, you may ask, did Penny Hardaway come to sign a wing sauce stain?

    By Geoff Calkins December 03, 2018

• November 2018

  • Chapter Two: How Penny Hardaway proved the skeptics wrong – and a university president right

    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.”

    By Geoff Calkins November 13, 2018

  • Geoff Calkins chronicles Season One with Penny Hardaway

    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.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 09, 2018

  • Calkins: Penny’s first win ‘felt like home’

    Jeremiah Martin dropped in one 3-pointer, then he dropped in another 3-pointer, then FedExForum erupted in joy.

    By Geoff Calkins November 07, 2018