Tigers Basketball Insider: Memphis could add hometown flavor to roster via transfer portal
Penny Hardaway may have an opportunity to add some 901 flavor to his 2025-26 roster through the NCAA transfer portal.
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March 2025
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Hardaway says ‘disrespect is real’ as Memphis doubted against Colorado State
The Tigers have shocked the college basketball world before. Fueled by a mission to prove the doubters wrong — and perhaps more importantly, prove themselves right — they’ll try to do it again.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Join our interactive NCAA chat
The Daily Memphian will host a live virtual subscriber Q&A session heading into the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: How will Memphis fare in All-AAC honors?
Here’s who The Daily Memphian predicts will take home some of the AAC’s most notable end-of-season awards next week.
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February 2025
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Tigers Basketball Insider: What NCAA Tournament seed does Memphis deserve?
“Based on what Memphis has done against their schedule, they deserve to be in the 5-6 seed range right now, not in the 7-8 are they are pegged in current bracketology,” college basketball analytics expert Evan Miyakawa of EvanMiya.com said.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Hardaway takes responsibility for botched finish
“That’s all on me, the way that I finished that game,” coach Penny Hardaway said of Memphis’ play in the final seconds of regulation during its overtime loss at Wichita State.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: What Memphis’ hot-and-cold nature says about its NCAA Tournament chances
Memphis ranks No. 4 in opponent adjust, a metric created by college basketball analytics expert Evan Miyakawa.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Memphis enjoying historic 3-point-shooting season
Memphis is No. 1 in the country in 3-point percentage, hitting better than 40%.
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January 2025
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Memphis’ NCAA Tournament outlook after UAB win
A look at where Memphis stands in the NCAA Tournament picture — and its resume overall — after the Tigers’ dominant win over UAB on Sunday.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Tigers have ‘small’ problem
The Tigers are the second shortest team in the AAC, according to average height data from KenPom.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Dante Harris expected to ‘make things happen’
Virginia transfer Dante Harris provides Memphis with a third facilitator to go with guards Tyrese Hunter and PJ Haggerty, and another tenacious on-ball defender.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Hardaway needs PJ Haggerty ‘out of his shell’
Though PJ Haggerty is an All-American candidate and one of the biggest reasons for the No. 19 Tigers’ success, Coach Penny Hardaway thinks he can be even better.
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December 2024
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Where Memphis stands in NCAA Tournament projections ahead of AAC play
The Tigers finished a nonconference schedule that KenPom ranks as the fourth-toughest in the country with a 10-3 overall record. What does that mean for their NCAA Tournament prospects?
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Will fans ‘stand up’ against Ole Miss?
After an announced crowd of 14,565 showed up to FedExForum last Saturday, Memphis is asking for more support when it closes non-conference play at home against No. 16 Ole Miss.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: What NCAA seed is attainable?
Penny Hardaway doesn’t simply want to make the NCAA Tournament after missing it a season ago — he wants to earn a top-four seed.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: How Arkansas State loss affects Memphis’ NCAA resume
Though its national perception certainly took a hit, Memphis hasn’t quite undone all the work it did through the first month of the season.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: A look at Memphis in initial NCAA NET rankings
The Tigers were No. 31 in the NCAA’s first NET rankings of the 2024-25 season. What does this mean?
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March 2024
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Teams that danced at FedExForum provide reminder for Memphis
NCAA Tournament teams that played first- and second-round games at FedExForum highlight the importance of roster continuity — something that Memphis has lacked in recent seasons under coach Penny Hardaway.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: A look at Memphis’ final 2023-24 KenPom numbers
Is this 2023-24 Tigers team the worst product coach Penny Hardaway has put on the court in his six seasons?
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Tigers Basketball Insider: FanDuel deems Memphis second favorite to win AAC Tournament
Even with the Tigers’ up and down play through the AAC play, Vegas likes their odds to win the league’s tournament title this week in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Hardaway explains why he limited subs in game against UAB
Memphis’ David Jones and Jahvon Quinerly expected to be subbed out in the second half versus UAB. Penny Hardaway “ignored them.”
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February 2024
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Penny Hardaway says court storms getting ‘a little too violent’
Tigers coach Penny Hardaway weighs in on one of the hottest topics in college basketball.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Hardaway defends deep rotation, says people are ‘up in arms’
Penny Hardaway says he’s forced to go far down his bench during games while “trying to figure out who wants it the most.”
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Tigers Basketball Insider: How will Memphis fare in its toughest four-game stretch of AAC play?
Advanced analytics websites KenPom and Bart Torvik don’t have much confidence in the Tigers going better than 2-2 in their next four games.
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Tigers Basketball Insider: Numbers illustrate Memphis’ success with shorter rotation
Penny Hardaway knows what he has to do with the Tigers’ rotation. Will he do it?
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