Memphis Tigers coach Penny Hardaway dances around big man issues on the “Jason & John” show.

With the Tigers in the midst of a key stretch of games against nationally ranked non-conference opponents, there’s plenty for Parth Upadhyaya, Tim Buckley and host Greg Gaston to bandy about.

He played a pivotal role in the Kansas State Wildcats making an Elite Eight run last season.

Penny Hardaway feels the Tigers’ place in the latest AP Top 25 poll is “a little bit disrespectful.”

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David Jones led the way with 29 points in the Tigers’ big upset in College Station.

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The Tigers Women hand the Eagles first loss of the season on Ki’Ari Cain’s basket in the final seconds.

Coach Penny Hardaway’s Tigers head to College Station as sizable underdogs.

Penny Hardaway spoke to reporters Friday about the Tigers’ locker room dynamics, provided an update on Jordan Brown and discussed how he’ll handle his team’s rotation moving forward.

Bluff City Collective will primarily focus its efforts on the Memphis men’s basketball program.

The AAC will have turned from an 11-team conference as recent as 2022 into a 14-team conference that only has seven of the original 11 still in the league next year. Now, the conference is losing the only commissioner it has ever known.

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Aresco became the fourth commissioner of the Big East Conference in 2012, and oversaw the reconstitution of that organization into the American Athletic Conference a year later. He announced his retirement Thursday, Dec. 7.

The Tigers’ win may prove to be a catalyst for Coach Penny Hardaway to take the steps he needs to take to turn this into a fruitful season.

The Tigers hung with the Columbia University through three quarters, but the Lions’ explosive fourth-quarter offense proved to be too much.

The Tigers ended up getting the 85-80 overtime victory over the Rams. But it certainly wasn’t pretty.

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Box score: Memphis 85, VCU 80 (OT)

The University of Memphis Tigers basketball team defeated the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams at Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia.

Coach Penny Hardaway is making some changes for Wednesday night’s game against Virginia Commonwealth .

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Brown was expected to be a key piece of the 2023-24 Tigers after transferring to the program this past offseason, but he’s struggled so far this season.

Wednesday’s matchup with VCU is one that’s crucial for a Tigers team whose next three games are all against teams ranked in the top 30 of KenPom (Texas A&M, Clemson and Virginia). 

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“If you get in there, buy a ticket and cheer for them, then you have an opportunity to have an opinion,” the Tigers assistant coach said. “If you don’t, you don’t have an opportunity to have one.”

Some Memphis fans may have been surprised when they saw where Memphis landed in the first NCAA NET Rankings of the 2023-24 season, released Monday.

Host Greg Gaston, senior writer Tim Buckley and beat writers Frank Bonner II and Parth Upadhyaya all had plenty to say on the latest edition of The Daily Memphian Tigers Podcast with Greg Gaston.