Banged-up Tigers open AAC women’s tournament Sunday vs. East Carolina
Tilly Boler, a Jackson State transfer, ranks third in the AAC with 17 points per game. She is the first Memphis player to make an All-Conference First Team since Ariel Hearn did during the 2013-14 season. (Wes Hale/The Daily Memphian file)
Injuries have been a major factor for Memphis women’s basketball all season and that will continue heading into the American Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Tigers (7-22, 5-13) will open the conference tournament as the No. 10 seed against No. 7 East Carolina (16-14, 8-10) at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPN+.
Point guard DeeDee Hagemann is out with an injury and isn’t expected to play when Memphis tips off at Dickies Arena in Forth Worth, Texas.
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Frank Bonner II
Frank Bonner II covers the Memphis Tigers. He is a top-10 APSE winner who covered Oklahoma State for the Tulsa World before joining The Daily Memphian in 2021. Bonner is a native of Indiana, where he started his career covering high school sports.
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