Depleted Tigers are ‘ready for war’ on the path to secure AAC Tournament title
Memphis Head Coach Penny Hardaway walks onto the court during a timeout in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Tulane in the semifinals of the American Athletic Conference tournament, Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Gareth Patterson/AP file)
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Memphis roster that’s bent but never truly broken throughout the season is starting to take its fair share of hits.
And, unfortunately for the No. 16 Tigers (28-5), this is happening as they sit just one win away from checking off another one of their season-long goals.
Coach Penny Hardaway’s team, the No. 1 seed this week at the AAC Tournament in Fort Worth, Texas, beat No. 4 seed Tulane 78-77 on Saturday afternoon at Dickies Arena to advance to Sunday’s AAC Tournament championship game for the third time in the past four seasons.
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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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