Calkins: A season of redemption comes to a ‘heartbreaking’ end
Memphis Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway talks to an assistant coach during an NCAA Tournament first-round game against Colorado State in Seattle on March 21. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daly Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
SEATTLE — PJ Haggerty sat by himself in the locker room, after it was over. What do you say after a game like that?
Haggerty put together one of the great individual seasons in Memphis basketball history. He’s a consensus All-American.
But the Tigers had just been emphatically bounced from the NCAA Tournament by Colorado State, 78-70. All those people who picked against Memphis were right. And on the biggest stage of the season, Haggerty had played maybe his worst game.
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