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Miserable Penny Hardaway Eviscerates Memphis Basketball As Team Officially Quits On Themselves And The City​

Mark Harris
PublishedFebruary 19, 2024 7:19 AM EST|UpdatedFebruary 19, 2024 7:19 AM EST

The Memphis Tigers basketball team is in shambles, and head coach Penny Hardaway has officially seen enough.
In mid-January, Memphis was 15-2 on the year and on everyone's radar as one of the most dangerous teams in the country. Then, the Tigers' floor felt like a Sweet Sixteen appearance come March.
Now, Memphis is staring at a spot in the NIT, and maybe not even hosting a first-round game in the second-tier tournament nobody cares about.
The Tigers have lost six of their last eight games - including woeful losses at home to South Florida and Rice - with their recent two-game road trip to North Texas and SMU seeming to be the nails in the coffin.
Those paying close attention to this Memphis team know the beginning of the end was the home loss to South Florida on January 18, a game the Tigers were leading by 15 points at halftime. For anyone holding out hope, that hope officially died in Dallas on Sunday with the team's 106-79 loss to SMU.

Teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble in late February with talent, and yes Memphis has talent, that lose a game by 27 points have quit on themselves and everyone involved, and that's exactly the case for the Tigers.
Hardaway didn't hold back during his postgame press conference after the loss to SMU and alluded to this team's inability to come together and clear immaturity issues.
"Fuc-ing losing like this, this is terrible, man. This is not competing at all, I don't know what's going on," Hardaway said. "I just don't understand why we're not competing. Everyday we're playing is for our life, to make it to the NCAA Tournament."

"We just haven’t been a team in a long time," he continued. "I’m fighting really hard for the school and for the city and everybody needs to be pulling the rope in the same direction. Right now, everybody’s not pulling the rope in the same direction."

"There was people unhappy when we were 15-2 and they’ve been unhappy all year," he said. "It just seemed like the one thing we talked about when we got all these guys is, ‘Are we gonna be able to keep everyone happy?’ We have not been able to keep everyone happy. When they’re not happy, they shut down."

Hardaway's admission that he doesn't know what's going on with this team isn't exactly the vote of confidence Memphis fans will be searching for in these dire times seeing as how it's his job to know exactly what's going on.
It will take a lot for Memphis fans to turn on Penny Hardaway - he's the Elvis Presley of hoops in the community - but his resume is very much trending in the wrong direction.
Barring an AAC conference tournament title, the Tigers won't be dancing next month. This would mark two NCAA Tournament misses in the last five seasons with just one tournament win in the four tournament appearances in that stretch.

Glad we aren't dealing with this nonsense.
Northwestern Giving up home game

I don't know why we would expect anything different.

Konkol recaps Rice game, looks forward to Wichita State, and more...

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P.J. Haggerty's performance had the look of what a true Tulsa legend looks like. Although Haggerty isn't quite there yet as a legend for his career, his incredible freshmen season continued. His 30 points and 10 rebounds boosted Tulsa to a 93-82 overtime victory over Rice on Saturday afternoon on Legends Day for TU in front of a crowd of 3,665 at the Reynolds Center.

ITS GAMEDAY!!!! The Tulsa men host Rice. Tulsa edged out Rice In Houston when they gave up a big lead towards the end of the game and had a controversial ending that sent the Rice coach chasing the officials into the tunnel. Rice currently occupies the 10th seed in the Conference Tournament while Tulsa dropped to the 11th Seed that plays on Wednesday. Hopefully we can right the ship and get a win and out of the bottom 4. Rice is 3-8 in conference and Tulsa is 3-9.

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BYU at Oklahoma State
North Dakota at ORU

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AND ONE

As you probably already know, Detroit Mercy, a team we played last year, got their first win ending a 27-game losing streak by beating handily IUPUI 81-66 on Wednesday night. That might not be the interesting thing about that. What is even better is they have the BEST FAN around. One fan stormed the court in that win. ONE FAN! That was the best thing I have heard all week.

GO TU!!!

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With FAU continuing to stumble down the stretch, Memphis completely collapsing, and no other team really having a good enough resume for an at large… does that mean the AAC is likely a 1 bid league this year?

That would suck.

Tulsa has been proposed as a hub in the central region.

This is a golden opportunity to finally link us to an important element of the nation's infrastructure.

Now is the time to act. Submit supportive comments at the bottom of this page.

If this effort is unsuccessful Tulsa will be the largest city without passenger rail in the US within a few years. We are already among the five largest.

Dante by year...34%, 44%, 49%, 43%

Archie currently 43.6% I hope he can maintain this.

P.J. Haggerty's performance had the look of what a true Tulsa legend looks like. Although Haggerty isn't quite there yet as a legend for his career, his incredible freshmen season continued. His 30 points and 10 rebounds boosted Tulsa to a 93-82 overtime victory over Rice on Saturday afternoon on Legends Day for TU in front of a crowd of 3,665 at the Reynolds Center.

Get it going early.

GO TU!!!

Now the important question: Anyone with photos of the Legends with attached Names? I saw Coley, Ricky Ross, Gary Collier, Pooh, Shea, but they didn't introduce them individually. Glad they showed up as they meant a lot to all of us.

Our edited version of the TU Radio Post game show has highlights, and interviews with coach Konkol and PJ Haggerty, on Eye of the Hurricane Podcast:

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

Highlights and interviews with Coach Konkol and PJ Haggerty are part of Eye of the Hurricane Podcast's Post Game Radio Remix:

https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2019/8/26/eye-of-the-hurricane-podcast

TU up 10-8, first quarter - 5 turnovers for WSU so far.

Could have been worse, but still not very good. I’m out out of other ideas.

ITS GAMEDAY!!!!! Tulsa travels to Tampa to take on the First Place South Florida Bulls Who have won 9 games in a row and 15 out of the last 16 games. This will not be an easy game for Tulsa. This game will be on the U. The women host UTSA at the Reynolds Center tonight as well. The women’s game starts 30 minutes after the men’s starts.

Todays Games

Saint Joseph’s at Loyola Chicago
Missouri St at Murray St.

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Its Valentines Day. Do something special for that certain someone. If you don't want to then by all means don't. lol

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I took a promotional offer from the Tulsa Whirled online subscription for just one dollar for six months. I received an e-mail explaining that my six months was expiring and the rate would raise to $10.99 per month. So I call in to cancel and they offer me another six months at no charge. I guess they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. But how do they make any money?

Sure starting to look like it.

Season ticket renewal notifications came out today. One new feature coming soon is Auto-Renewal for 2025. Tickets for future years will be auto billed each spring unless the account holder opts out.

I wonder if this will help retain a few more ticket sales each year.

14 points to tie, 15 points to break the record...

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