Penny Hardaway says he ‘really will die’ for Tigers’ program in passionate monologue
“I look at this city like a 5-year-old boy looks at his mom; I look at this city like a 10-year-old girl looks at her dad,” said Memphis Tigers basketball coach Penny Hardaway, left, at press conference Wednesday, March 18, with athletic director Ed Scott. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
“I don’t make any excuses for what’s happened, for what I’ve failed at,” Tigers basketball coach Penny Hardaway said after finishing 13-19 this past season. “But I know I can come back from failure.”
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Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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