When the Memphis Grizzlies open the regular season on Oct. 17 at Indiana, they will have played just five preseason games and the Pacers will have played only four.

Here is the area high school football schedule for Week 9. All games are at 7 p.m. unless noted.

The University of Memphis planned – and even promoted – this Saturday’s game against No. 10 UCF as a white-out event.

With many of the area's public school teams not playing this week because of fall break, it's a good time to take a look at how the postseason picture is starting to shake out.

Mid South Prep Academy started in Memphis as an effort to give local youths a second chance at reaching college. Their schedule includes a mix of prep schools and junior colleges. Mid South Prep CEO Eric “Cowboy” Robinson once ran the most successful AAU program in the Memphis area, and is now taking on the task of expanding the prep school scene in the Mid-South.

UCF quarterback McKenzie Milton has the Memphis defense preparing for the extraordinary going into this Saturday’s matchup at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. 

Former Memphis Tigers standout D.J. Stephens has been signed to a two-way contract by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Monday evening.

During the decade-long Mike Conley and Marc Gasol era, a dearth of three-point shooting elsewhere on the roster has consistently plagued the Grizzlies. Only once in this stretch have the Grizzlies finished in the Top 20 in three-point attempts and only twice in three-point percentage, never higher than 17th on the accuracy front.

Head coach Mike Norvell led his Memphis Tigers team onto the field Saturday night against the Connecticut Huskies wanting to “put the throttle down.” The Tigers did just that in their 55-14 win over the cross-division American Athletic Conference foe. 

Darrell Henderson took the handoff, headed left, and what happened next was pure wizardry.

The Memphis Tigers bounced back Saturday night from an uncharacteristic performance last week against the Tulane Green Wave 

A night after relying on veterans for a home preseason win, the Memphis Grizzlies yielded to their youth.

Score one for the grown folks.

The Carruthers-Patterson brick is headed back to Kirby.

Ryan Silverfield holds several titles at this stage of his career, but none more important than offensive line coach. The Tigers struggled in the trenches in the loss to the Tulane Green Wave a week ago – allowing seven sacks and struggling to run the ball for the first time all season. Silverfield addressed that in this week’s five quick questions. 

Finally.

Resh Short drove in from Cincinnati. He hopped in his car and pointed it toward Memphis and arrived by the time the doors opened at 6 p.m.

The Memphis Tigers basketball fan base had waited months for the moment. Since mid-March at least.

The Memphis Tigers plan to host a bevy of recruits for Memphis Madness Thursday night. The festivities include a scrimmage and surprise special guests. The University of Memphis announced the schedule and details Wednesday afternoon. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts an hour later.

A tale of two Media Day scrums: Jaren Jackson Jr. sat encircled, with microphones, recorders, and TV cameras surrounding Castle Jackson like an impenetrable moat. He held court with a big smile, talking about rap albums and Netflix shows, essaying the locker-room generation gap for which he’s the poster manchild in a manner that tiptoed the line between guileless and knowing.

The Grizzlies preseason just started, and by Sunday morning it will be more than half over.

As a former high school wide receiver, Chester Flowers knows many ways to get into the end zone. And as a former high school linebacker, Rahnmann Slocum knows plenty of ways to keep the opposition out.

Last week: 1

For most of the first half, Connecticut kept last weekend’s game with undefeated Cincinnati competitive. The Huskies trailed by a touchdown late in the first half and were driving. An apparent touchdown turned out to be merely a close call when the receiver was ruled to have touched the sideline.

Tulane held a 26-14 lead with 12 minutes left in Memphis’ loss to the Green Wave last Friday night. The Tigers defense faced a much-needed stop on third-and-9 at the Memphis 46-yard line.