Doneal Mack scored 16 points to lead No. 13 Memphis to an 84-70 victory over Seton Hall in the semifinals of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off on Friday night. The Tigers (4-0) led 70-46 with 8:42 left and prevailed despite 20 second-half points from Seton Hall’s Jeremy Hazell, who finished with a game-high 32 points. The [...]
Doneal Mack scored 19 points and Shawn Taggart notched a double-double for Memphis in an 83-71 win against Chattanooga in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off on Thursday night. Mack was 5-for-9 from 3-point range, and Taggart scored 16 points and 11 rebounds for the No. 13 Tigers (3-0) in the win. Mack and Taggart also added [...]
Memphis may be coming off a pair of dominating home victories, but coach John Calipari isn’t happy with his team’s play. The 13th-ranked Tigers look to bounce back from a weak shooting performance when they meet winless Chattanooga in the first round of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off in San Juan on Thursday. [...]
During his years as a Memphis assistant, Derek Kellogg had seen the Tigers’ formula in many of their victories. Let the opponent hang around for a bit, then start throwing more players at them, run them until they wear down and pull away in the second half. On Monday night, Kellogg, in his first season [...]
John Calipari became Memphis’ all-time winningest coach early Tuesday. Few hours after that, he won again. “Next year I’m going to take my game to Memphis,” Xavier Henry said at a morning press conference that was broadcast live on national television. Henry is the nation’s top-ranked shooting guard, a 6-foot-6 specimen who chose Memphis over [...]
Memphis overcame an early deficit and coasted to its first win of the season behind a freshman who showed flashes of his talents. Highly touted freshman Tyreke Evans scored 19 points and No. 13 Memphis beat Fairfield 90-63 in the opening round of the Puerto Rico Tip-off Tournament on Saturday night. Evans’ performance came despite [...]
Lute Olson has retired after 24 seasons with the Arizona Wildcats. Athletic director Jim Livengood confirmed Olson’s decision hours after news reports had started speculating about the 74-year-old Hall of Famer’s future. “This was not a decision that was made lightly,” Olson said in a statement released by the university on Thursday. “I’ve had a [...]
Billy Packer is out after 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS, making way for Clark Kellogg. Kellogg has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years. He will partner with Jim Nantz on his first Final Four in April. Packer did 34 consecutive Final Fours. “With his unquestioned popularity [...]
Memphis coach John Calipari signed a contract extension through the 2012-13 season that includes an annual raise of $500,000 and a $5 million bonus if he stays through the end of the contract. Calipari’s new contract will pay him $2.35 million per year. Calipari took the Tigers to the national championship game this year, the [...]
Memphis All-American guard Chris Douglas-Roberts will enter the NBA Draft, joining teammate Derrick Rose as an early entry to the pros, the school announced Friday. Douglas-Roberts led the Tigers with 18.1 points a game as a junior and helped them set a Division I record with 38 victories. He was picked for the NCAA all-tournament [...]
