There’s one player who can elevate Tigers from good to great
“I felt like this is a team we should’ve beaten by 20, 30 points,” Memphis center Dain Dainja said of FAU. “So just finishing the game and just doing whatever it takes … that was just my mentality.” (Marta Lavandier/AP)
Memphis big man Dain Dainja scored 16 points in a span of less than seven minutes in the Tigers’ AAC-opening win over Florida Atlantic.
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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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