Coach Penny Hardaway’s Tigers head to College Station as sizable underdogs.

The Minnesota Timberwolves brought the NBA’s best record and No. 1 defense into FedExForum, overpowering the smaller Grizzlies on the glass 54-28.

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Box score: Timberwolves 127, Grizzlies 103

The NBA box score for Friday’s game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Penny Hardaway spoke to reporters Friday about the Tigers’ locker room dynamics, provided an update on Jordan Brown and discussed how he’ll handle his team’s rotation moving forward.

Here are the Daily Memphian postseason cross country awards for the 2023 season, featuring our runners of the year, coaches of the year and all-metro teams.

Henry O’Keefe and Sophie Christopher led the field in 2023. Cliff Frisby of MUS and Steve Bell of Houston are top coaches.

Tackle Makylan Pounders is Memphis’ second starter on the line to enter the NCAA transfer portal.

High school basketball stars Stevelen Morris and TaShawn Hubbard are recognized by The Daily Memphian readers.

Chris Herrington answers readers’ questions including speculation about Vince Williams’ nickname, plus shares his thoughts on Christmas music.

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Bluff City Collective will primarily focus its efforts on the Memphis men’s basketball program.

The AAC will have turned from an 11-team conference as recent as 2022 into a 14-team conference that only has seven of the original 11 still in the league next year. Now, the conference is losing the only commissioner it has ever known.

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In total, it took seven minutes for MTV to show off Jackson’s house. There was plenty of time to get into the details.

Aresco became the fourth commissioner of the Big East Conference in 2012, and oversaw the reconstitution of that organization into the American Athletic Conference a year later. He announced his retirement Thursday, Dec. 7.

The Tigers’ win may prove to be a catalyst for Coach Penny Hardaway to take the steps he needs to take to turn this into a fruitful season.

The Tigers hung with the Columbia University through three quarters, but the Lions’ explosive fourth-quarter offense proved to be too much.

The Tigers ended up getting the 85-80 overtime victory over the Rams. But it certainly wasn’t pretty.

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Box score: Memphis 85, VCU 80 (OT)

The University of Memphis Tigers basketball team defeated the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams at Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia.

Ja Morant doesn’t think his star teammate is talked about enough, especially after scoring 49 points in Wednesday’s win over the Pistons.

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Box score: Grizzlies 116, Pistons 102

NBA box score for the Wednesday, Dec. 6 game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

Coach Penny Hardaway is making some changes for Wednesday night’s game against Virginia Commonwealth .

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What to look for in Memphis’ road game against VCU

The Mustangs will be in a prime position, along with city dignitaries, neighborhood groups and Santa Claus, for the festivities along Farmington Boulevard.

Terrance Scales’ Wolves are off to a fast start thanks to their team-before-self approach. And obvious talent.

The football defensive coordinator spent two seasons at the University of Memphis. 

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