The Memphis Tigers beat Texas in Houston yesterday to advance to the Final Four. This city is going nuts over the Tigers. You can see blue everywhere here right now. The car flags and wind socks are in full force. Several thousand folks showed up at Wilson Air last night to welcome the team back. A few hundred more were at the Finch Center to welcome the team back. The Bank of Bartlett took two charter planes to Houston for the South Regional to see the Tigers absolutely blow out Michigan State and Texas.
Right now, the Tigers and North Carolina are playing the best basketball. In addition to those two teams, UCLA and Kansas are also in the final four. Anyone of the four could win the whole thing but the Tigers have as good a shot as anyone.
The Tigers will play UCLA this weekend for the right to play in the National Championship Game. UCLA and Memphis played two or three years ago for the right to go the final four and that game was as ugly as any I've seen in a long time. I expect UCLA to try to make this game an ugly, defensive low scoring game as well. Beating UCLA will be tough but the Tigers can do it.
Derrick Rose, the Tigers freshman point guard, played amazingly well for a freshman or a senior or any other class. He's a big time NBA talent. Chris Douglas-Roberts (a/k/a "CDR") is a big time NBA talent. Antonio Anderson is a great defensive stopper and can score when needed. Then you have Joey Dorsey and Robert Dozier as the starting big men.
Memphis has been to the final four now three times in school history. This town is already going crazy with pride over the Tigers. If they beat UCLA and make it to the championship game, this might just wind up being the greatest Tiger team ever.
Good luck to the Tigers and Go Tigers Go!
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