Calkins: Just make the NCAA Tournament, Memphis. (Pretty please!)
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway, seen here Dec. 29, 2021, needs to make the NCAA tournament or invite comparisons to Moe Iba. (David Grunfeld/AP file)
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.
The Memphis Tigers lost to UCF on Wednesday. That’s bad. But for all of the team’s struggles, it still can make the NCAA Tournament. Is that too much to ask?
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