Memphis won his sequence of seven victories consecutive to the USF on Thursday and extended it with a victory of 80-65. Tigers therefore remain n ° 12 in the CBS Sports 25 and 1 university basketball rankings for Friday morning. And if you are wondering if Memphis fans are really excited by the way things happen, or, instead, a little bored, take a look at this sign that appeared in Tampa.
No, it was not actually a quad 8 victory for the Tigers – but it was a victory that fell into Quad 3, which is there only almost all the victories of the American Athletic Conference fall for Memphis, if not worse. For the context, consider that the sequence of eight consecutive victories of Memphis consists of six victories of the third quarter and two victories in the fourth quarter, and the six games of the regular Tigers season, five who are currently planning to fall to the fourth quarter or in the fourth quarter. In other words, fundamentally, all AAC offers from Memphis are games that can damage your CV, not to help. What it could be frustrating for some fans, including those with this sign, it should be more or less life for tigers until the school determines how to upgrade conferences.
Anyway, Penny Hardaway manages him well.
After having entered his seventh year in his Alma Mater with great questions after the collapse of last season and unusual staff moves quite late in the calendar (and various other things), Hardaway was formidable for 25 games. He guided his mainly new team thanks to a difficult non-bite calendar and now has the tigers to cross a conference outdated. Memphis has a file of 21-4 in total, 11-1 in the AAC and reinforced by a curriculum vitae featuring five Q1 victories-wins specifically on Ole Miss, Michigan State, Missouri, Clemson and Uconn.
And oh, by the way, Thursday’s victory against the USF came as a 150th Hardaway victory since its replacement for Tubby Smith in March 2018. It is an accomplishment worthy of celebration since there were moments where it was reasonable to wonder if Hardaway would have ever arrived here – both at 150 career victories And In the top 15 of the survey after in mid-February. But now he is here – preparing to try to guarantee the career victory 151 Sunday at Wichita State, and with the tigers classified as high at the end of the season For the first time in 16 years.
“I’m so grateful,” Hardaway told Dave Woloshin, the longtime voice of Tigers radio, According to Roman Cleary de Bluff City Media. “I was faithful to my job. Even if I made mistakes, I was faithful and I worked very hard.”
Would all this be more interesting with more interesting conference games? Yes, of course it would be the case. But Hardaway can do nothing personally about it. On the contrary, all he can do is his best to try to keep his players focused on the matches that they are largely supposed to gain two figures and, ask any coach, this is not easy. But he does it, quite regularly. And as long as it continues, the Tigers will soon have their first regular season conference championship since 2013 while Hardaway has been ensuring its first prize for the year coach AAC in a landslide.
