Memphis Tigers NCAA Basketball News Archives

Memphis' tumultuous offseason, which left new coach Josh Pastner with just eight healthy scholarship players, including guard Doneal Mack, has given the rest of the league hope.

HATTIESBURG - John Calipari will no longer be courtside when Memphis begins its Conference USA schedule this season, but the coaching legend leaves quite a legacy in a 61-game winning streak against league foes.

There may still be some issues for John Wall to work through off the court. On it, the University of Kentucky freshman is making an early impression.

Tigers Elliot Williams and Doneal Mack spoke with Fox13 today about their upcoming season.

Walk-on freshman guard Preston Laird was perfect from behind the 3-point arc last season, but that's not the reason new Tiger coach Josh Pastner gave him a scholarship recently.

Travelling around Western Canada on buses and planes during his first season with the University of Regina Cougars men's basketball team should seem just like old times for Darius Mole.

Shawn Taggart, 24, the former University of Memphis standout who decided to forego his final year of college eligibility to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball, has been signed to a contract to play for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Premier League.

I decided to leave Terrico White off the "point guards and combo guards" list and include him on the "shooting guards and wings" list.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - New Kentucky coach John Calipari says the Wildcats could open his first season with three freshman starters.

There were 217 teams in college basketball last season that shot 3-pointers better than the University of Memphis.

The signature program in Conference USA underwent a major makeover after dealing with a tumultuous off-season. Josh Pastner takes over as coach after John Calipari bolted for Kentucky .

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Four freshmen swingmen -- Drew Barham, Tyler Foster, D.J, Stephens and Malik Thomas -- are being counted on to replenish the depth lost by four departing starters.

Mack opened the game 32 times last season and his 8.7 scoring average was good for fifth on the team.

Tulsa senior center Jerome Jordan was selected the 2009-10 Conference USA Men's Basketball Preseason Player of the Year in a vote of the league's 12 head coaches.

For his role in the dunk contest at Memphis Madness on Friday night, junior Will Coleman inquired this week about whether it would be possible to set up a 13-foot goal at FedExForum.

It's going to be interesting to see, as the years unfold, how the Calipari Era at the University of Memphis - and an era, it certainly was - is treated by historians.

The University of Memphis has filed its appeal to the NCAA, criticizing the reasoning behind sanctions that stripped the Tigers of their 38 wins in the 2007-2008 season, according to The Commercial Appeal .

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Sam Young poured in a game-high 22 points to lead the Memphis Grizzlies past the Oklahoma City Thunder, 99-91, in preseason action.

A MRI scan Wednesday revealed the Sacramento Kings top draft pick has a bruised bone in his left knee.

A lot of people are sleeping on Memphis basketball. Just to review: yes, we're aware that John Calipari is no longer the head coach here in the Bluff City.

When it came time to announce where he would play college basketball, Sheffield guard Chris Crawford took a long look at the three hats in front of him Thursday before picking up the bright orange cap representing the University of Tennessee.