After nearly two decades, the 2007-08 Memphis Tigers will finally get their ‘just due’
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Derrick Rose stared at the floor in shock. Doneal Mack, sitting on the bench, covered half his face with his warm-up shirt. Joey Dorsey, next to Mack, clasped his hands together and bowed his head as if he were praying for a miracle.
As the final minutes turned to seconds on April 7, 2008, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, reality hit the Memphis Tigers basketball players.
Trailing by seven points to Kansas with 18.2 seconds left in overtime of the 2008 NCAA championship game, it was over — not only the Tigers’ quest for the program’s first-ever national title in arguably the best season in school history, but their time as college teammates.
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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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