Memphis Tigers shift focus to high school recruiting
Memphis Tigers Head Coach Penny Hardaway during the first half against the Ole Miss Rebels at FedExForum on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. Hardaway and his staff have recruited 12 high school prospects for the new season. (Wes Hale/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
As an emphasis on the NCAA transfer portal has shifted the focus of college basketball recruiting away from traditional high school recruiting throughout the past few years, maybe no one has swung their own philosophical pendulum quite as much in the opposite direction as Penny Hardaway.
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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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