Tigers Basketball Insider: Will fans ‘stand up’ against Ole Miss?
University of Memphis fans get ready for a Dec. 21, 2021 game against Mississippi State. Will fans show up for the Ole Miss game? (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
After a 48-hour all-out push led to the largest home crowd of the season filing into FedExForum to cheer on Memphis, many decided they had seen enough.
With a little more than three minutes left in Memphis’ 79-66 loss to Mississippi State last Saturday, Tiger fans hit the exits in droves after a fastbreak dunk by Shawn Jones Jr. extended the Bulldogs’ lead to 21 points.
As those decked out in blue and gray streamed out of the arena during the media timeout, Mississippi State’s Cameron Matthews led the visiting team’s fans in the crowd in a loud “Maroon, White!” chant. Though Starkville, Mississippi, is about 180 miles away from the Bluff City, it sounded at times like a Bulldogs home game inside Memphis’ building.
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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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