It's the same old story inside FedExForum.
In their season-opener against Jackson State University, The University of Memphis Tigers owned the court. Joey Dorsey owned the paint, the guards owned the perimeter and Jeremy Hunt is thankful he owned a Memphis jersey.
In the 111-69 win No. 13 Memphis moves to 1-0 on the young season.
Memphis put together an offensive performance that gained momentum as the game went along exciting the crowd of 10,207.
"We scored 1.5 points per possession tonight," said head coach John Calipari. "That's outrageous."
Sophomore guard Chris Douglas-Roberts was Memphis' leading scorer with 21 points, including nine in the first half that saw Memphis start off slow leading single digits for the first 11 minutes of the game.
Trey Johnson, a senior guard for Jackson State, scored nine of his team's first 13 points and kept Memphis from running away with the game early.
The rest of JSU didn't fair so well, missing 11 of 16 shots in the first half, which allowed Memphis to extend their lead on the play of Dorsey and Hunt.
Dorsey who was on the receiving end of two alley-oops in the first half ruled the backboard scoring six of his nine first-half points on offensive put backs by way of the dunk.
"What we need from him is how he cleaned up baskets," Calipari said. "That's where he should score most of his points."
Dorsey also did it on the defensive end blocking a Kenny Russell shot 25 feet away, just after a Hunt three-point basket.
Donnell Mack and Hunt combined to shoot five-of-nine from the arc, including two late three-pointers in the first half by Mack to extend the lead to 21. The Tigers took that lead into the locker room.
"Jeremy brought it tonight," said sophomore guard Antonio Anderson." He's our team savior. He's a big key to our offense and defense.'
The second half saw a barrage of threes from Memphis, as they hit 10 of their 22 shots.
The performance quelled any questions about the team's perimeter shooting at least for the moment.
"It was just that the first couple games we had the jitters," Anderson said.
After running away the game, the final few minutes saw some fireworks as Memphis' freshman center Hashim Bailey laid a shoulder into driving JSU player sending him to the ground and sending himself to the bench after being hit with a technical foul and an ejection.
"I have no idea (what he was doing)," said Calipari.
Memphis travels to Hawaii over the weekend to take on Oklahoma in the first round of the Maui Invitational.
"We're going to give it a good run in Hawaii," Anderson said.
