Former Tigers assistant faces familiar challenge at LeMoyne-Owen
Faragi Phillips, middle, spoke at a press conference Aug. 28 at LeMoyne-Owen basketball's 2025 Media Day at the Little Theater on the school's campus. (Parth Upadhyaya/The Daily Memphian)
Faragi Phillips has been here before.
Not in this exact spot — a stage inside a dimly lit auditorium in South Memphis’ Soulsville neighborhood, where he was Thursday morning.
But the 901 native and former Memphis Tigers assistant coach has started at the bottom before. He did so when he took over as head coach at Mitchell High in 2011 and at Whitehaven in 2015.
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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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