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Memphis Tigers Head Coach Penny Hardaway said he’s “not gonna panic” after the Tigers’ loss to Temple. (Wes Hale/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Memphis basketball must get back on track. And quickly.
The No. 18 Tigers (13-4, 3-1 AAC) dropped the first of a two-game road swing, losing 88-81 to Temple on Thursday night in Philadelphia after beating North Texas and East Carolina by a combined eight points in their prior two games.
Close games against inferior American Athletic Conference opponents followed by an eyebrow-raising loss might give Tiger fans flashbacks to last season, when Memphis began league play 4-0 and was ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press Top 25 before dropping eight of its final 15 games and missing the NCAA Tournament.
But coach Penny Hardaway isn’t going there — at least not yet.
“I’m not (gonna go) backwards and start talking about last year,” he said Thursday. “I’m not gonna panic.”
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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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