Love It, Like It or Hate It: Reviewing Memphis’ season-opening win over Vanderbilt
“For those guys to come into this environment … and come in here and fight, man, that’s Big Memphis all the way right there,” head Tigers basketball coach Penny Hardaway said. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
“For those guys to come into this environment,” Tigers head basketball coach Penny Hardaway said, “and come in here and fight, man, that’s Big Memphis all the way right there. That’s love. That’s representing the city at the highest level.”
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