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Memphis to Reinstate Wesley Witherspoon

Wesley Witherspoon, the Memphis junior who was suspended last week reportedly for mocking an assistant coach, will be reinstated from suspension Thursday, one day after the Tigers (13-4, 2-1) face Southern Mississippi, coach Josh Pastner announced Monday. "The plan is to reinstate him on Thursday and have a fresh, clean...

Memphis Tigers Vent, Channel Tim Tebow After Loss to Kansas

For most teams, dropping a game to No. 4 Kansas on a neutral floor would not elicit too much of a negative response. No. 13 Memphis, however, took its first loss of the season pretty hard, for some reason. Taking to Twitter and speaking to the media upon returning Wednesday morning, Tiger players voiced their frustration...

Memphis Determines Its Innocence

What a bombshell from the University of Memphis. It has exhaustively determined that it has found nothing to suggest Derrick Rose did not take his own SAT test. Just for good measure it has also concluded that even if -- somehow -- it did turn out that someone other than Derrick Rose took the SAT there was no way the...

DeMarcus Cousins Is the First Memphis Recruit to Follow Calipari to Kentucky

It has really been a question of if, not when, some of the Memphis commitments would choose to follow coach John Calipari to Kentucky. DeMarcus Cousins was the most likely to do so first, since he has not yet signed a National Letter of Intent (LOI) with Memphis. His commitment was only verbal, so there was not even a...

Bruce Pearl Uses Memphis Interest for a Nice Bump From Tennessee

Nothing like the threat of having a bitter in-state rival possibly poaching your coach to force another contract extension, even after a somewhat disappointing season. Memphis was hoping to land Bruce Pearl from Tennessee, with a whopping seven-year, $21 million contract according to some reports.Memphis was reportedly...