Memphis Roar

Doneal Mack walked to center court, dropped to his knees, kissed the Tiger logo, and brought tears to the eyes of Tiger Nation. For Doneal Mack and Willie Kemp, the Tigers’ 75-53 routing of Tulsa in the Forum on Saturday was a fairy-tale ending to a memorable senior day.

“It was a spur of the moment thing,” Doneal Mack said of kissing the M in the center of the floor. “I felt like that was my way of saying thank you to the whole city, the program, the fans, everyone that was there for me the last four years.”

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Doneal Mack came to the University of Memphis under a crazy set of circumstances. One of the country’s top 50 players in the 2006 class, Mack was originally slated to head to the University of Florida under Billy Donovan. Some say they parted ways because the Gators decided to go another direction and some say it was grades. Either way, former head coach John Calipari was more than happy to swoop him up as part of his incoming recruiting class. The then 6′5″ 170-pound guard was set to join Willie Kemp, Pierre Henderson-Niles, Trevon Willis, Hashim Bailey and transfer Shawn Taggart.

The first two to go were Trevon Willis and Hashim Bailey. Next up was the coach that recruited him, John Calipari, followed by Shawn Taggart. Finally, Henderson-Niles recently parted ways with the program leaving behind only Mack and Willie Kemp.

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WHO: Memphis at UAB

WHEN: 8:00pm CST on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

WHERE: Bartow Arena - Birmingham, AL

TV: CSS

RADIO: AM600

In the last meeting between Memphis and UAB, Wesley Witherspoon scored a career high 29 points and the University of Memphis Tigers secured a big conference win as Memphis defeated UAB 85-75. That game included 31 lead changes and 10 ties, coming down to which team wanted to win more. The Tigers hustled, scrapped, and came up with key defensive stops late in the game to pull past the Blazers.

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Just over half an hour before the start of the game between the University of Memphis and the University of Central Florida the FedEx Forum had to be completely evacuated. According to the Commercial Appeal, a car in a parking garage adjacent to the Forum struck a water pipe connected to sprinkler system setting off the fire alarm. As a result, tip off was delayed 20 minutes.

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Wesley Witherspoon scored a career high 29 points and the University of Memphis Tigers secured a big conference win as Memphis defeated UAB 85-75 on Wednesday night. The Tigers, who needed  the win against UAB to stay in a good position of conference standings, proved to be too tough down the stretch for the Blazers.  Memphis used a late run and clutch free throws to propel the Tigers past the Blazers.

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Just a few days after ending their 64 game conference win streak to UTEP, all eyes were on the Tigers to see how they would respond against the Houston Cougars. The Tigers took the court on Saturday looking to start over with a clean slate. Despite a valiant effort from Houston’s Aubrey Coleman, the Tigers overpowered the Cougars 92-77. The Tigers, who put together a great second half to pull away, had five players score in double figures.

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