What to watch in Memphis’ road game against Wichita State
Memphis Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway talks with his team during a timeout in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Rice in Houston on Feb. 2. (Ashley Landis/AP file)
Penny Hardaway finally saw his Memphis basketball team maintain aggression despite being up by a big margin late in a game.
The No. 14 Tigers (21-4, 11-1 AAC), who are No. 44 in the NCAA’s NET rankings and No. 43 in KenPom, are coming off an 80-65 win against South Florida in Tampa on Thursday in which they led by as many as 24 points midway through the second half before winning by 15.
The 15-point win extended what is now an eight-game winning streak and marked the team’s third-largest margin of victory in American Athletic Conference play.
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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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