Coach Alex Simmons’ Memphis Tigers basketball team has signed four players out of the NCAA transfer portal this week.

Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss why they believe the Grizzlies ultimately hired Tuomas Iisalo as the head coach. 

The Tigers have brought in eight players via the NCAA transfer portal this offseason. Only one is a true big man.

Luke McGee collects four hits and drives in four runs against CBHS as Briarcrest coach Craig Hopkins has a very happy birthday.

The Tigers will be one of four teams in the 2025 Baha Mar Hoops Bahamas Championship.

Here are the top performances by Memphis-area TSSAA track and field athletes through Sunday, May 4.

Standouts from CBHS, ECS, Lausanne, Northpoint and St. George’s are up for consideration this week. 

Tuomas Iisalo only got to coach fifteen games and have two practices, but the work he did in his interim role was enough to earn him the full-time coaching job.

Redbirds lose Sunday, but win four of the six games in the series with Louisville and still hold on to first place in the West Division standings of the International League.

In an era in which it’s far from a given that the best local talent stays home to play for the Tigers, transfer Julius Thedford is the type of player Memphis diehards point to when making the case for the Tigers still owning the title of “The City’s Team.”

The Memphis Redbirds won game five of a six-game homestand Saturday against the Louisville Bats (Triple-A, Cincinnati Reds) at AutoZone Park.

The Showboats’ next game will be Sunday, May 11, at 2 p.m. when they host the St. Louis Battlehawks at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium.

Tuomas Iisalo pushed just hard enough to make Grizzlies leadership believe he can do the job, but he also won the trust of the franchise’s most important players. 

Abdul Hakim’s pledge to coach Penny Hardaway’s program marks Memphis’ eighth transfer portal acquisition of the offseason.

Harris, a three-star recruit in the 2024 class from Silsbee, Texas, played more than five minutes in just one game.

Right fielder Matt Koperniak’s two-run homer in the second and first baseman Matt Lloyd’s RBI double in the fourth carried the Redbirds to a 5-1 win over the Bats. 

On April 8, Jason Nichols was placed on administrative leave without pay and not allowed to attend any events on campus. Millington Municipal Schools began a formal Title IX investigation, which looked into sex-based discrimination.

Friday was the Tigers’ second time competing in the NCAA Tournament in four years and their third appearance overall.

Okojie, a 6-foot-1 point guard, averaged 1.5 points, 1.2 assists and 1.2 rebounds per game this past season for the Tigers.

Iisalo arrived in Memphis as the lead assistant prior to the 2024-25 season but previously generated head coaching interest while leading Paris Basketball in France. 

PJ Carter, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard, averaged 5.4 points and 1.5 rebounds per game for Memphis last season.

Caleb Doty’s arm — and bat— led the Lynx in the 11-3 Division 2-A region tournament victory over ECS.

The voters have spoken. And they have chosen Kyle Sneed as The Daily Memphian’s spring-sports athlete of the week.

After winning the first two games of this week’s six-game series with the Louisville Bats, the Memphis Redbirds lost Thursday.

The NBA’s postseason results might be showing one thing: That the Grizzlies aren’t quite as far away as they thought.