Hardaway says Tigers’ next four games will be ‘pivotal’ for NCAA Tournament seeding
University of Memphis head basketball coach Penny Hardaway speaks during a press conference on July 12, 2021. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Penny Hardaway knows the time is now for his Memphis team to rebuild its reputation.
The Tigers (7-2) were ranked No. 16 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll and trending toward being considered a top-10 team and a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament following last month’s Maui Invitational. But the group looked like a shell of itself last week at home, when it beat Louisiana Tech by 10 points on Dec. 4 and fell to Arkansas State by 13 on Sunday.
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Hardaway is confident the Tigers can get back to where they were just two weeks ago. But he’s also aware their window to do that is limited.
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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.
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