The Tigers don’t tip off their 2025-26 season for another three-plus months, but Memphis now knows who they’ll face and where.

Coach Alex Simmons’ group, and every other team in the 13-member American, will play 18 conference games this upcoming season.

If there’s anything the news of the last few days has shown us, it’s that the Memphis administration indeed understands just how desperate and possibly dire its situation is as members of the American. 

The Big 12’s rejection of Memphis’ reported $200 million pitch marked another denial in the Tigers’ quest for entry into a power conference. But Memphis officials will keep plugging away — and basketball attendance numbers show why.

Coach Penny Hardaway has a chance to add some more local flavor to his team for the 2026-27 season.

The news comes hours after Jones-Garcia made the NBA 2K26 All-Summer League First Team.

“Memphis once again put together a lucrative offer that has been rejected by Big 12. Is that for embarrassment? Or cause for hope?”

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Big 12 presidents met Monday to discuss the offer, Ross Dellenger’s report says. He also added that “the proposition is not believed to have the necessary support, for now.”

Parker’s next court appearance is set for 9 a.m. on July 29 at Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court Division 10.

The American Athletic Conference, to which the Memphis Tigers belong, is rebranding and making a preferred name change.

On the day he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, former Tigers football and baseball player Stephen Gostkowski had something to say about Memphis’ basketball program.

The former Tiger, who became an NBA star, was honored at the “Tigers on Tour” event in Brentwood before his induction into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

University of Memphis guard Sincere Parker, who was charged with domestic violence in an alleged assault on his girlfriend, remained in jail late Sunday.

Coach Penny Hardaway clearly appreciated Nolan Smith being a part of the enterprise. Now he’ll have to find a replacement.

Former Tigers Shawn Taggart and Chandler Lawson headline Team 901’s TBT roster.

Here’s a breakdown of the negotiated settlement between the Memphis Tigers and the NCAA, which stemmed from academic misconduct in 2024.

The new mark is more than $1 million higher than the previous year’s record. 

Guard Sincere Parker is part of the University of Memphis’ new-look basketball roster. But to understand his story, you first have to start with his dad’s. 

Memphis academic advisor paid two softball players to take tests and do homework for basketball players, NCAA rules.

Tigers coach Penny Hardaway may have to replace an assistant coach on his staff yet again.

The Carbondale, Illinois, native will return to Memphis after previously serving as the Tigers’ compliance director for men’s basketball and football from 2014 to 2021.

Penny Hardaway took a major step last year in his coaching career when he won the AAC regular-season title for the first time. But the one area that he’s always been elite in has been player development. And his fingerprints are all over this year’s NBA summer leagues.

Born to teenage parents in an industrial Illinois town where opportunity is hard to come by, Memphis guard Sincere Parker could be on the verge of a breakthrough with the Tigers.

Those blue Tiger claw marks that stretched across most of the FedExForum floor the past three seasons? Gone.

The 7-foot center led Melrose High to the 1983 state high school basketball title and was a key player on the Memphis Tigers' 1984-85 Final Four team.