Memphis Men's Basketball Game Notes C-USA Tournament - Mar. 14, 2013

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Schedule-Results (27-4, 16-0 C-USA)

Tigers On TV/Radio/Web Television: CBS Sports Network/Comcast digital channel 222 (Dave Ryan, play-by-play; Pete Gillen, analyst) Radio: WREC 600 AM (Dave Woloshin, play-by-play; Matt Dillon, color analyst; Forrest Goodman, studio host) Web: None

Game #32

By The Numbers...

84.6

• Memphis’ win pct. in its last 13 games played in Tulsa (11-2 record); Tigers 11-0 in reg. season, 0-2 in postseason

60.7

• Tigers’ win pct. in conference postseason tournaments held outside the city of Memphis (3724 record)

7th

• Tigers looking for 7th C-USA Tournament title; already have a C-USA Tour. record 6 crowns

#1

• Memphis is the C-USA Tournament No. 1 seed for sixth time in history; the 5 previous times UofM was the No. 1 seed, it won the C-USA Tournament title

Athletics Communications Info Contact.................................... Lamar Chance Office........................................901-678-2349 Cell............................................901-734-9949 Home........................................901-465-4247 Email....................... lchance1@memphis.edu Mailing/Overnight Address.......................... 203 Athletic Office Building 570 Normal St. Memphis, TN 38152

12 17 22 23 24 29

North Florida (CSS)..............................81-66, W Samford%................................................65-54, W vs. VCU^ (NBC SN).................................. 65-78, L vs. Minnesota^ (AXS.tv)............................ 75-84, L Northern Iowa^ (AXS.tv).........................52-47, W UT Martin (SportSouth).......................93-65, W

5 Ohio (CBS SN).................................. 84-58, W 8 Austin Peay (SportSouth)................. 83-65, W 15 #6/6 Louisville (FSN).........................78-87, L 20 Lipscomb (SportSouth)...................... 62-56, W 28 Oral Roberts (CSS)......................... 72-57, W 30 Loyola, Md. (CSS)........................... 78-64, W

4 at Tennessee (ESPN2).........................85-80, W 9 East Carolina* (SportSouth).......... 67-54, W 12 at UAB* (CSS)....................................69-53, W 16 at Rice* (CSS).....................................77-51, W 19 Harvard (FSN).................................. 60-50, W 22 Tulane* (SportSouth)....................... 71-60, W 26 Marshall* (FSN).............................. 73-72, W 30 at East Carolina*..................................75-68, W

2 Tulsa* (CBS SN).............................. 94-64, W 6 at SMU*...............................................60-52, W 9 at Southern Miss* (CBS SN)...............89-76, W 13 UCF* (CBS SN)................................ 93-71, W 16 at Marshall* (CBS SN)........................71-59, W 20 Houston* (CSS)................................ 81-74, W 23 Southern Miss* (FSN)...................... 89-73, W 26 at Xavier (ESPN2)................................62-64, L

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2 at UCF* (FSN)....................................76-67, W 5 at UTEP* (CBS SN)............................56-54, W 9 UAB* (CBS SN)................................ 86-71, W 13-16 C-USA Tournament (Tulsa, Okla./BOK Center) 14 vs. Marshall/Tulane (CBS SN)........................6 pm 15 Semifinal/if advance (CBS SN)..................5:30 pm 16 Championship/if advance (CBS)..............10:30 am *C-USA Game Home games in bold small caps %Battle 4 Atlantis Opening Game (Memphis) ^Battle 4 Atlantis (Nassau, The Bahamas)

Probable Starters/Top Reserves v s . M a r s h a l l (based on previous game starters) Memphis Starters

Thursday, Mar. 13 • 6 pm CT BOK Center • Tulsa, Okla.

No. 5 30 4 1 55

Marshall Starters

Marshall (13-18, 6-10)/ Tulane (18-13, 6-10) vs. #20/17 Memphis (27-4, 16-0)

SETTING THE SCENE • Memphis (27-4, 16-0 C-USA) opens postseason play in the 2013 Conference USA Tournament Thursday, Mar. 14. The Tigers will meet the winner of an opening-round game between Marshall (13-18, 6-10 C-USA) and Tulane (1813, 6-10 C-USA). • Memphis is the tournament’s No. 1 seed, while Tulane is the No. 8 seed and Marshall the No. 9 seed. • The Tigers’ quarterfinal contest, scheduled for a 6 p.m. (CT) start Thursday, is slated for a CBS College Sports telecast. • The Tigers remained in the national polls for a fifth-straight week. Memphis moved up to the No. 20 spot in the Associated Press poll and No. 17 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. • Memphis bounced back after its Feb. 26 setback at Xavier with three-consecutive wins over UCF Mar. 2, UTEP Mar. 5 and UAB Mar. 9. The Mar. 2 UCF win clinched the outright Conference USA regular season title for the Tigers. • Prior to its win at UCF, Memphis had its 18game winning streak snapped Feb. 26 when it dropped a narrow 64-62 decision at Xavier. The

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3 Chris Crawford 10 Tarik Black 11 Damien Wilson

No. 1 2 24 11 50

Name Shaq Goodwin D.J. Stephens Adonis Thomas Joe Jackson Geron Johnson

Name Dennis Tinnon Robert Goff Elijah Pittman Nigel Spikes DeAndre Kane

0 Chris Martin 4 Jamir Hanner 23 D.D. Scarver

Pos F F G/F G G G F G Pos F F F C G G F G

Yr Ht/Wt Fr. 6-9/246 Sr. 6-5/188 So. 6-7/240 Jr. 6-1/171 Jr. 6-3/197 — Reserves — Jr. 6-4/218 Jr. 6-9/262 Fr. 6-6/180

PPG RPG 7.9 4.6 7.4 6.7 11.5 4.4 13.8 4.9apg 10.5 4.6

Yr Ht/Wt Sr. 6-8/232 Sr. 6-9/240 Jr. 6-9/219 Sr. 6-10/240 Jr. 6-4/195 — Reserves — So. 6-0/185 So. 6-8/210 Jr. 6-4/202

PPG RPG 10.3 9.1 4.9 3.6 16.3 4.3 5.6 7.2 14.9 7.1apg

Hometown Green Bay, Wis. Indianapolis, Ind. Covington, Ky. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Pittsburgh, Pa.

3.1 3.7 12.2

Upper Marlboro, Md. Philadelphia, Pa. Birmingham, Ala.

9.3 8.6 2.0

3.8 4.7 1.1

1.0 2.5 2.1

Hometown Atlanta, Ga. Killeen, Texas Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, Tenn. Dayton, Ohio Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, Tenn. Atlanta, Ga.


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