Buckley: The Tigers aren’t in the AP Top 25. Come Monday, they should be.
Memphis' David Jones celebrates the team's win over Arkansas in an NCAA college basketball game in the Battle 4 Atlantis at Paradise Island, Bahamas, Nov. 23. (Tim Aylen/Bahamas Visual Services via AP)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
Victories this week against Michigan and No. 20 Arkansas could vault Memphis into the Associated Press basketball poll. If, that is, voters can overlook an ugly loss to Villanova.
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