Buckley: Tim Duncan helped Penny Hardaway, Ed Scott glue broken Tigers together
Memphis assistant athletic director Tim Duncan looks at the scoreboard during a NCAA tournament first-round game against Colorado State University in Seattle March 21, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daly Memphian)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
SEATTLE — As he stood just off the court in Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena Thursday, March 20, watching the No. 5 seed Memphis Tigers practicing before their first-round NCAA Tournament game the next day, Tim Duncan thought back.
It was 1992, Duncan’s senior season at then-Memphis State. Larry Finch was the coach, and Penny Hardaway the star guard.
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