What you might have missed during Memphis basketball’s eventful May
University of Memphis fans get hyped up during a NCAA tournament first round game against Colorado State University in Seattle, March 21, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daly 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.
As I loaded my extra large suitcase and Nike duffel bag into the trunk of my Toyota Corolla on the first Saturday of this month, the coast appeared to be clear.
I was a little more than six weeks removed from having completed my third season covering the Memphis Tigers basketball team for The Daily Memphian. The early offseason madness — which, at the time, included eight NCAA transfer portal pickups for the Tigers, six players from last year’s team entering the portal, Dain Dainja’s eligibility waiver request submission and the start of the PJ Haggerty bidding war — was behind me.
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