| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 2008–09 |
| Team: | Memphis Tigers |
| Conference: | Conference USA |
| Short Conf: | C-USA |
| Coachrank: | 9 |
| Aprank: | 3 |
| Record: | 33–4 |
| Conf Record: | 16–0 |
| Head Coach: | John Calipari (9th year) |
| Champion: | C-USA Regular Season Champions C-USA tournament champions |
| Bowl Result: | Sweet Sixteen |
The 2008–09 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Memphis in the 2008–09 college basketball season, the 88th season of Tiger basketball. The Tigers were coached by ninth-year head coach John Calipari, and they played their home games at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.
|-!colspan=12 style=|Regular season|-!colspan=12 style=|Conference USA Tournament |-!colspan=12 style=|NCAA Tournament
| Poll | Pre | Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Wk 4 | Wk 5 | Wk 6 | Wk 7 | Wk 8 | Wk 9 | Wk 10 | Wk 11 | Wk 12 | Wk 13 | Wk 14 | Wk 15 | Wk 16 | Wk 17 | Wk 18 | Final | |
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| AP | 13 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | – | |||||
| Coaches | 12 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |