Box score for the NBA game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Chicago Bulls at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, March 16, 2026.

The Memphis women’s basketball team hasn’t gone to the NCAA Tournament in almost 30 years. After firing Alex Simmons, the Tigers are searching for a spark. Local coaches and a former player weigh in on how to end the drought.

“Penny Hardaway is returning as Memphis coach. How can he fix things? He can start by accepting that the disaster that was this past season wasn’t some ‘one-off.’ ”

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Herrington offers his thoughts on four Grizzlies topics: The team’s latest injury updates, the NCAA tourney and draft scouting, the standings and lottery odds “race,” and NBA expansion.

According to a news release issued by the Memphis athletic department, “... Hardaway announced structural changes within the men’s basketball program.”

Standouts from Arlington, Bartlett, CBHS, Collierville, ECS and Whitehaven are up for consideration this week. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 19.

The Memphis Tigers have decided to retain head basketball coach Penny Hardaway, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed Monday morning.

Sam Bielich was famous in Memphis as the Medicine Man. Now he’s recovering from triple bypass surgery — and his old friends from the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity are trying to help.

Aldama “will undergo an arthroscopic procedure and receive an orthobiologic injection to address ongoing discomfort in the trochlear compartment of his right knee.”

South Florida, the American Conference regular-season and conference tournament champions, is a No. 11 seed and opens NCAA Tournament play Thursday against No. 6-seeded Louisville in Buffalo, New York.

Some losses seem much more painful than others. Coach Penny Hardaway discusses the ones that hurt the worst.

Arkansas held off Ole Miss Saturday to reach the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game for the eighth time and first since winning the 2020 title.

Ole Miss won for the third time in three days in the tournament, after losing 12 of the final 13 regular-season games.

Rookie Javon Small, who notched a new career-high 23 off the bench, led the Memphis scoring.

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Box score for the NBA game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Detroit Pistons at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday, March 13, 2026.

The Panthers were running uphill for much of the game and couldn’t get the big defensive stops against the Cavaliers when they needed them the most. 

While both coaches were investigated, their departures are unrelated, the Germantown Municipal School District confirmed Friday.

The No. 22 Commodores defeated the No. 25 Volunteers to advance to the semifinals.

Braham was granted a preliminary injunction, which allowed him to play the 2025 season for the Memphis Tigers after transferring from Nevada.

An induction ceremony is scheduled for April 17 at the Billy J. Murphy Athletic Complex on the University of Memphis’ Park Avenue campus.

New head coach Charles Huff has a minimum salary pool of $4.4 million for his assistant coaches and support-staff members.

Penny Hardaway could make his job easier by returning some of the eight players from this season who have eligibility remaining for 2026-27 and beyond. But how many should Memphis bring back after a season the coach called a failure?

Whitehaven High has reached back into its football past for the man who will lead its immediate future.

Fresh off historic performances in the Winter Olympics, members of the USA ice-skating squad will appear in Southaven at the Landers Center in May.

Former Briarcrest and Memphis Academy of Health Sciences standout David Dixon is part of an increasingly exclusive club: Players who remain with one program throughout their college careers.