In the waning minutes of Memphis’ 75-53 dissection of Tulsa, it came time for the Tigers to salute their seniors and let them sub out of the game one last time at FedExForum.
The first senior to say goodbye was Doneal Mack. But it wasn’t just the crowd of 17,238 who cheered and thanked Mack — Mack wanted to show some appreciation, too.
The buzzer sounded, public address announcer Chuck Roberts called his name, and Mack walked to center court where he bent down and kissed the Tiger logo.
“To me, it was a way of showing appreciation to the…
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The death of Dana Kirk got me looking through some old memorabilia this weekend. I dug up this old article. It is from the Commercial Appeal dated March 23, 1985. I will post some more later this week.
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That’s more like what should happen when Memphis plays SMU.It’s difficult to imagine the Tigers ever losing to the same team they beat 76-63 on Saturday night. That said, it’s difficult to imagine the Tigers losing to anyone when they shoot like they did.Memphis hit 15-of-30 shots from beyond the arc against SMU — just one shy of the school record — and reached the 20-win mark in a game that was never really close.“Back in April when I took over the job, if you said we’d be at 20 wins and 10-2 in conference, people would be doing somersaults and…
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Yuck, yuck, yuck.Against perhaps any other team, Memphis’ 76-70 victory over Central Florida on Wednesday might have been a lot uglier than it was. The Tigers (17-7, 7-2 Conference USA) probably wouldn’t have out-rebounded — yes! — their opponent 34-20, survived the greater part of the second half without their only true post presence or had such an easy time getting into the lane down the stretch when it came time to just straight-up out-score an inferior opponent.But the Golden Knights (11-12, 3-6 C-USA) are dreadfully small, their post players drift toward the perimeter and they don’t have an answer…
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