What to know: Memphis’ NCAA Tournament 1st-round foe Colorado State
Memphis players and coaching staff celebrate after winning the championship of the American Athletic Conference tournament against UAB, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Gareth Patterson/AP)
FORT WORTH, Texas — One of the first things Penny Hardaway did in his postgame press conference after learning Memphis’ NCAA Tournament fate Sunday evening was thank the selection committee.
For weeks, the Tigers’ coach and his players had seen various Bracketologists peg them as a potential No. 8 seed despite having a list of big wins that includes ones over Michigan State, Missouri, Clemson, Ole Miss and UConn.
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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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