Coach Penny Hardaway’s team has a single bye in the tournament and will open play against the winner of Wednesday’s first-round matchup between No. 12 seed Wichita State and No. 13 seed Rice.

Memphis women’s basketball team is eliminated in AAC Tournament by East Carolina. 

Alexis Miché sold her Ja Morant t-shirts during the 2023 NBA Playoffs. This year she’s collaborating with the Grizzlies for an official collaboration. 

Geronimo Kee, 22, was arrested Friday for allegedly shooting Memphis Police Department 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson after being pulled over for speeding on Interstate 240.

Also happening this week: Spring break begins, and the Land Use Control Board considers a new event venue at Crosstown Concourse.

Titled “STAX: Soulsville, USA,” the multi-part documentary series directed by Jamila Wignot covers the expansive history of the legendary Memphis-based recording studio. 

You don’t have to go far to get away from it all. Candace Echols has some ideas for where you can go to catch your breath amid your hectic schedule.

The Zion Community Project’s annual cleanup and wreath-laying ceremony at Memphis’ oldest Black graveyard memorializes victims of the 1892 People’s Grocery Lynching. 

State Rep. G.A. Hardaway has introduced a bill proposing a feasibility study for a state-operated crime lab in Shelby County. But he and other state leaders have indicated the state will likely not fund the lab.

“We get calls from Grubhub and Uber to add this on, and it’s hard to justify a customer paying the fee for one drink,” said one of Boycott Coffee’s co-owners. “It’s also hard to trust the drink is going to get there safe and sound.” 

It’s pretty simple. If Memphis wants to make the NCAA Tournament, the only path is winning four games in four days in the AAC Tournament. That, of course, is something they’ve never done.

Theater fans can catch ‘Charlie Brown,’ ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,’ Broadway’s hit ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ and other shows on stages in Memphis this March.