Basketball media relations director Ron Mears confirmed Monday that Memphis junior forward Chris Massie has been advised by head coach John Calipari to enter this summer’s NBA Draft. Mears said the 6-9, 253-pound Massie was told by Calipari to declare for the draft, but not to sign with an agent beforehand, ...
The Tiger basketball team lost two of its top three scorers Wednesday as freshman guard Dajuan Wagner declared his intention to enter this summer’s NBA Draft while sophomore guard Scooter McFadgon announced he will transfer to another school. Wagner, who was named MVP of the National Invitation Tournament ...
South Carolina head coach Dave Odom has been in this position before. His team just hasn’t. Odom, in his second year with South Carolina, won the NIT Championship as head coach of Wake Forest two years ago. Odom’s Gamecocks, though, have never been past a quarterfinal round of any national tournament. Memphis, ...
A few poorly played innings here and there have cost the Memphis baseball team early this season and that was again the case Tuesday night as the Tigers gave up five runs on three errors and six hits in the first two innings, helping Middle Tennessee State cruise to an 8-4 victory before 244 fans at ...
Tiger point guard Antonio Burks showed he could be effective with his jumper when he scored a career-high 16 points the last time Memphis and South Florida hooked up. Wednesday night against the Bulls, he showed he could explode. The sophomore shattered his previous career high with 26 points on 12-of-19 ...
Memphis head coach John Calipari had been telling Dajuan Wagner all season that the freshman guard needed to be more aggressive during the final minutes of games. Wagner just waited until his birthday to follow through. The heralded freshman, who turned 19 Monday, scored the Tigers’ final eight points ...
Memphis junior center Earl Barron must have listened to his coach’s halftime plea Wednesday night. After scoring just six points while being outmuscled by Louisville’s big men in the first half, Barron exploded for 13 points and six rebounds after the break to finish with 19 points and 11 rebounds, ...
Memphis guards Dajuan Wagner and Antonio Burks were missing from the Tigers’ starting lineup Wednesday night because of what Tiger head coach John Calipari deemed a violation of the team’s “performance agreement.” Wagner and Burks, who have combined to average 28.1 points and 8.5 assists per ...
University of Memphis football head coach Tommy West said Monday he isn’t into playing for pride. That’s why West and his Tigers are treating this weekend’s game against Army as Memphis’ last, despite the fact that there are two games remaining on this season’s schedule. “The way we’re ...
There wasn’t much for head coach John Calipari to complain about Friday night after his Tigers clobbered Team Georgia, 107-67, in their first of two exhibition games at The Pyramid. In fact, if 12th-ranked Memphis doesn’t give Calipari something to worry about tonight when the Tigers face the Universal ...
