Memphis to play Auburn in preseason exhibition game
Coach Penny Hardaway’s team’s preseason matchup in Atlanta against Auburn will serve as a good litmus test before it officially begins the 2025-26 season.
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Coach Penny Hardaway’s team’s preseason matchup in Atlanta against Auburn will serve as a good litmus test before it officially begins the 2025-26 season.
“Just because we don’t have an official preseason poll doesn’t mean we can’t set a baseline of expectations for Memphis football this season. That’s where Las Vegas comes in.”
ESPN’s Paul Finebaum slams Big 12 Brett Yormark after the league’s decision to reject Memphis’ membership pitch without even taking a vote from its presidents and chancellors.
The Big 12’s rejection of Memphis’ reported $200 million pitch marked another denial in the Tigers’ quest for entry into a power conference. But Memphis officials will keep plugging away — and basketball attendance numbers show why.
The Tigers don’t tip off their 2025-26 season for another three-plus months, but Memphis now knows who they’ll face and where.
Coach Alex Simmons’ group, and every other team in the 13-member American, will play 18 conference games this upcoming season.
The news comes hours after Jones-Garcia made the NBA 2K26 All-Summer League First Team.
Coach Penny Hardaway has a chance to add some more local flavor to his team for the 2026-27 season.
Parker’s next court appearance is set for 9 a.m. on July 29 at Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court Division 10.
The former Tiger, who became an NBA star, was honored at the “Tigers on Tour” event in Brentwood before his induction into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
Smith will leave Memphis after one season on coach Penny Hardaway’s coaching staff.
Here’s a breakdown of the negotiated settlement between the Memphis Tigers and the NCAA, which stemmed from academic misconduct in 2024.
Memphis academic advisor paid two softball players to take tests and do homework for basketball players, NCAA rules.
Born to teenage parents in an industrial Illinois town where opportunity is hard to come by, Memphis guard Sincere Parker could be on the verge of a breakthrough with the Tigers.
The Carbondale, Illinois, native will return to Memphis after previously serving as the Tigers’ compliance director for men’s basketball and football from 2014 to 2021.
Those blue Tiger claw marks that stretched across most of the FedExForum floor the past three seasons? Gone.
Darrell Brown Jr., Memphis’ new director of player development, is a former Germantown star and the godson of Tigers coach Penny Hardaway.
Hardaway spoke to reporters Tuesday about the Tigers’ home-and-home scheduling agreement with Baylor, the addition of South Sudanese big man Simon Majok and more.
Offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey gave a loose timeline of when he expects a starting quarterback to be named for the 2025 season while speaking to media at the school’s third Tigers on Tour event of the summer at Brookhaven Pub & Grill Tuesday evening.
Memphis has now filled 12 of the 13 spots on its non-American Athletic Conference slate for the upcoming season.
The Tigers are again well-represented this summer in the California Classic Summer League, the Salt Lake City Summer League, as well as the NBA 2K26 Summer League in Las Vegas.
The Tigers and Commodores have met 15 times. Most recently, Memphis beat Vanderbilt 77-75 at FedExForum on Dec. 23, 2023.
The Tigers have now filled 10 of the 13 spots on their 2025-26 nonconference schedule.
Simon Majok spent the past three seasons developing in the Serbian professional system with KK Real Beograd.
Texas State is planning to jump to the new-look Pac-12 while the Memphis Tigers, at least for now, remain in the American Athletic Conference.