Tyreek Smith is gone. Who’s next up front for the Tigers?
The Tigers, who play again Saturday against UNLV in Las Vegas, are now left with nine available scholarship players and only Nicholas Jourdain (right), Dain Dainja (center) and Moussa Cisse (left) in their frontcourt. (From left to right: Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file; Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian; Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Penny Hardaway addresses how the Memphis Tigers’ frontcourt rotation is impacted by the departure of Tyreek Smith, a transfer from SMU who left the team due to a dispute about NIL payments.
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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.
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