Here is a photo of the stylish retro uniforms that the Memphis Tigers busted out today for the season opener against the Belmont Bruins.
The 1972/73 Tigers team, led by the late Larry Finch, went all the way to the NCAA Championship game where they were beat by Bill Walton and the UCLA Bruins. Walton had [...]
Breaking news from college basketball. CBS Sports is reporting that former Memphis great, Larry Finch, has past away:
Larry Finch, who led Memphis (then Memphis State) to the 1973 Final Four and later coached the Tigers for 11 seasons, died Saturday at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. He was 60.
Finch is the winningest coach [...]
Memphis Tigers head basketball coach Josh Pastner was on the hot seat the second half of the season as his team struggled in Conference USA play with embarrassing losses to Rice, East Carolina, SMU, among others.
However, the Tigers came together in the last month to win the C-USA tournament and earn an NCAA Tournament bid [...]
The Memphis Tigers are young, so very young, and yet so talented. The Tigers talent today kept them in the game with the #5 seed Arizona Wildcats, and the Tigers youth led to turnovers and bad decisions that allowed the Wildcats to win the game.
Arizona was led by talented sophomore Derrick Williams who led the [...]
I will be live blogging the NCAA Tournament game this afternoon between the #12 Memphis Tigers and #4 Arizona Wildcats. Be sure to check back at 2:45pm ET/1:45pm CT/11:45pm PT especially if you are a fan of the Tigers.
<a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=a6bad6b7aa” mce_href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=a6bad6b7aa” >(#12) Memphis vs. (#5) Arizona</a>
You will be able to submit your own thoughts, commentary, [...]
Memphis Tigers junior forward Angel Garcia has left the team according to Memphis Roar. Garcia is reportedly headed overseas to build houses there with his massive onslaught of bricks and bad decisions.
Garcia, 6′10″, is tall enough to make a difference but his only skill set is jacking up 3’s from 30 feet. Teams have learned [...]
The word out of the Bluff City tonight is that the NCAA has reversed its previous ruling and that top 10 recruit Will Barton will be allowed to play for Josh Pastner and the University of Memphis Tigers this fall.
Both Dan Wolken reported the news via his Twitter:
Source just told me Will Barton has been [...]
The NCAA has ruled Memphis Tigers top basketball recruit (#10 nationally) Will Barton ineligible to play for head coach Josh Pastner because of grade and transcript issues according to CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish.
Barton tweeted his disappointment earlier tonight:
Barton hinted at bad news Wednesday night via his Twitter account.
“It don’t get no worse than this,” Barton [...]
The death of Memphis basketball legend Lorenzen Wright rocked the Memphis community when his body was found last week in a wooded field riddled with a dozen gunshot wounds.
Since that time, theories galore have floated around as to who murdered Lorenzen and for the reason why he died so horrifically.
Many theories being tossed around are [...]
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) is reporting that Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife Sherra Robinson Wright told police that just weeks ago three armed men showed up at her Germantown home looking for her ex-husband.
Sherra Robinson Wright opened her front door one day in recent weeks to find three men she had never seen before, each with guns [...]
