77-year-old Marla Nitsch grabbed her paint and a blow dryer. She had a message she wanted the Memphis Tigers to see on Wednesday night. 

Coach Penny Hardaway’s team bounces back after two tough road losses.

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Box score: Memphis 76, Charlotte 52

The box score for the NCAA basketball game between the University of Memphis and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.

Lester Quinones will stick around with the Warriors a little while longer.

The Tigers have lost six of their last heading into Wednesday’s game against Charlotte, which is second in the AAC.

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The clothing line features Memphis’ Leaping Tiger logo and the 1 Cent mark as part of various designs on “T-shirts, long sleeved T-shirts, hoodie tees, hoodies, quarter-zip tops and more.”

Penny Hardaway says he’s forced to go far down his bench during games while “trying to figure out who wants it the most.”

In a season where his team has gone from being ranked No. 10 in the AP Top 25 poll to out of the NCAA Tournament picture entirely in a span of a month, the Tigers’ coach feels he’s been a punching bag of sorts.

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With five regular-season games remaining, Memphis and coach Penny Hardaway have lost six of their last nine.

How much did the top of Upadhyaya’s ballot change after a week in which a few different highly ranked teams took losses?

What once was the most promising season of Hardaway’s era has turned into the most miserable one – one that fans and players alike seem to be counting down the days on.

This one appeared to be over long before the final buzzer sounded inside Moody Coliseum.

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Box score: SMU 106, Memphis 79

Here is the box score for the University of Memphis’ game against SMU Sunday, Feb. 18.

A win over the East Carolina University Pirates brings the University of Memphis women’s basketball team to 9-15 overall and 5-8 in American Athletic Conference play.

The Tigers’ matchup against the Mustangs could be an indication of whether they’ll fight or give up on a season that’s already gone off the rails.

Any hope that remained of the Tigers returning to early-season form all but vanished Thursday night in Denton, Texas.

Memphis won three in a row after a four-game slide, and some thought they had figured it out. They don’t have it figured out. Furthermore, they didn’t look reinvigorated or rededicated. And, most importantly, they didn’t beat North Texas.

Memphis’ loss to North Texas likely killed any hope it had left of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid.

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Box score: North Texas 76, Memphis 66

The box score for the NCAA game between the University of Memphis Tigers and the North Texas University Mean Green on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024.

The Tigers’ game versus the Mean Green will be their first against a top-100 opponent in more than a month.

Penny Hardaway and Shaquille O’Neal were teammates in Orlando from 1993 to 1996.

Have Penny Hardaway’s Tigers dug too deep of a hole to rebuild their NCAA Tournament resume, or have they turned the corner? Parth Upadhyaya, Tim Buckley and host Greg Gaston discuss.

Advanced analytics websites KenPom and Bart Torvik don’t have much confidence in the Tigers going better than 2-2 in their next four games.

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“The ceiling is in the way for Nae’Qwan,” Penny Hardaway said of Nae’Qwan Tomlin during his radio show Monday night. “Because he still has so much growth to do from where he is right now.”

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