Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Team: | Memphis Tigers |
Conference: | American Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | AAC |
Record: | 22–10 |
Conf Record: | 11–7 |
Hc Year: | 6th |
Asst Coach2: | Faragi Phillips |
Asst Coach3: | Andy Borman |
Stadium: | FedExForum (Capacity: 18,119) |
The 2023–24 Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Memphis in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Tigers were led by sixth-year head coach Penny Hardaway. The team played their home games at FedExForum as members of the American Athletic Conference.
The Tigers finished the 2022–23 season 23–8, 13–5 in AAC play, to finish in second place.[1] They defeated UCF[2] and Tulane to advance to the championship game of the AAC tournament.[3] There, they upset No. 1-ranked Houston to claim their first-ever AAC tournament championship.[4] As a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 8 seed in the East Region, where they were defeated by Florida Atlantic in the first round.[5]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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Elijah McCadden | 0 | G | 6'5" | 195 | Senior | Graduated | ||
Keonte Kennedy | 1 | G | 6'5" | 180 | RS Senior | Graduate transferred to California | ||
Alex Lomax | 2 | G | 6'0" | 190 | GS Senior | Graduated | ||
3 | G | 6'0" | 177 | GS Senior | Graduated | |||
Chandler Lawson | 4 | F | 6'7" | 215 | Senior | Graduate transferred to Arkansas | ||
Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu | 5 | F | 6'10" | 210 | RS Junior | Declared for 2023 NBA draft | ||
Jahmar Young Jr. | 10 | F | 6'10" | 223 | RS Senior | Graduate transferred to Texas Southern | ||
Johnathan Lawson | 11 | G | 6'6" | 190 | Sophomore | Transferred to Creighton | ||
12 | F | 6'9" | 205 | GS Senior | Graduated | |||
Ian Granja | 14 | F | 6'7" | 188 | Freshman | Transferred to Coastal Carolina | ||
James DeJesus | 20 | G | 6'0" | 160 | Junior | Walk-on; left the team for personal reasons | ||
Conor Glennon | 30 | G | 5'10" | 177 | Junior | Walk-on; transferred | ||
Tadarius Jacobs | 31 | G | 6'1" | 170 | Sophomore | Walk-on; transferred | ||
Damaria Franklin | 55 | G | 6'3" | 200 | RS Senior | Graduated |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous school | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jonathan Pierre | 0 | F | 6'9" | 192 | Junior | Nova Southeastern | ||
Jayhlon Young | 1 | G | 6'2" | 175 | RS Junior | UCF | ||
Nick Jourdain | 2 | F | 6'8" | 205 | Junior | Temple | ||
3 | F | 6'11" | 225 | Senior | Louisiana | |||
8 | F | 6'6" | 210 | Senior | St. John's | |||
9 | G | 6'5" | 180 | RS Senior | Florida State | |||
Jaykwon Walton | 10 | G | 6'7" | 206 | RS Senior | Wichita State | ||
11 | G | 6'1" | 175 | GS Senior | Alabama | |||
Noah Stansbury | 15 | G | 6'0" | 170 | RS Junior | Walk-on; Western Kentucky |
|-!colspan=12 style=| Exhibition|-!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| AAC regular season|-!colspan=12 style=| AAC tournamentSources:[6] [7]
See also: 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.