No. 22 Tigers, Owls Clash Sunday Afternoon at FedExForum

Sunday, February 23

Memphis, Tenn.

1:00 PM

University of Memphis

Florida Atlantic

No. 22 Tigers, Owls Clash Sunday Afternoon at FedExForum

Feb 22, 2025 | Men's Basketball

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The No. 22 Memphis Tigers gear up for an American Athletic Conference showdown with Florida Atlantic Sunday afternoon inside FedExForum. Game time is set for 1 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN2.

The Tigers are looking to get back on track after dropping an 84-79 overtime loss at Wichita State last Sunday afternoon that brought an end to their 8-game win streak. Tyrese Hunter scored a game-high 24 points with six rebounds, while big man Moussa Cisse came off the bench to drop a double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds.

Despite the result, with five games remaining in the regular season, Memphis remains in first place in the American Athletic Conference with an 11-2 league record. The Tigers are one game up on North Texas and UAB and currently own the tiebreaker with both.

Sunday is a fan appreciation day with several in-game presentations, including the 2024 M Club Hall of Fame Class being honored at halftime. Tiger legend Chris Douglas-Roberts is a part of the class and in honor of him being back in the building, fans can take advantage of throwback ticket prices to CDR's playing days in 2007-08 by clicking HERE.

Sunday's meeting will be just the sixth all-time between the schools with Memphis leading 3-2. The Tigers opened conference play with a 90-62 road victory at FAU on January 2, their largest victory in a league opener since 2008.

Memphis defeated the Owls, 78-74, last season in their first-ever visit to FedExForum.

Florida Atlantic is coming off a 75-68 loss at home to Wichita State on Thursday, dropping the Owls to 15-11 overall and 8-5 in league play. The loss halted a five-game win streak for FAU, who sits fifth place in the AAC standings.

They are the only team in the conference with three 20+ point margins of victory in league play.

GAME DETAILS
#22 Memphis Tigers (21-5, 11-2 AAC) vs. Florida Atlantic (15-11, 8-5 AAC)
Sunday, February 23, 2025 | 1 p.m.
FedExForum (18,400); Memphis, Tenn.
Television: ESPN (Matt Shumacker, pxp; Randolph Childress, analysis)
Radio: 98.9 THE ROAR OF MEMPHIS (Dave Woloshin, pxp; Matt Dillon, analysis)

BY THE NUMBERS

4^th: The Tigers are No. 4 in the nation in 3-point percentage at 40.0% (213-of-532) after hitting 10-of-26 at Wichita State last Sunday. The school record for a season is 38.8% in 2009-10.
5.6: Assists per game over the last seven games for
PJ Haggerty, which is 2nd-best in the AAC in that span behind Tulsa's Dwon Odom (6.4). He has 5+ dimes in 11 games this season (5 in the last 7).
7: Consecutive games with 8+ made 3-pointers for Memphis. That's the longest streak in 15 years for the Tigers. They drained 8+ in 14-straight contests from Dec. 12, 2009 to Jan. 30, 2010.
8: Games this season with 10+ steals for Memphis. It only had three such outings in the first 16 games. Since then, they have swiped double digit thefts in 5-of-10; all coming against AAC teams.
9.0: Rebounding average for Moussa Cisse over his last three games. He's also averaging 10.3 points and shooting 66.7% overall during the stretch. He recorded a season high 14 rebounds in a double-double effort (12 pts) at Wichita State.
10: Straight games that PJ Carter has made at least one 3-pointer in. He leads the team in conference play, and ranks sixth across the league, with a 45.3 % mark from 3-point range (24-of-53).
18-0: Memphis' record this season when leading with five minutes remaining in the game. The Tigers are also 13-0 when leading at the half. Memphis is 60-5 the last three years when holding a lead with five minutes to play.

SCOUTING FLORIDA ATLANTIC

Florida Atlantic enters the game with a 15-11 overall record after winning six of its last eight games, including a 5-game win streak that came to an end on Thursday.
Head Coach John Jakus is in his first year as the head coach for the Owls, having spent time on staff at Baylor and Gonzaga.
The Owls added 10 players from the transfer portal and overseas to a roster that returned only three players, including redshirt freshman guard Devin Vanterpool, whose father, David, played at St. Bonaventure from 1991-95 and is an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards.
FAU has three players scoring in double figures and eight players averaging at least 15.0 minutes per game.
Sophomore Kaleb Glenn (Louisville) leads the team with 12.9 points per game. He has reached double figures in nine of the last 10 games, upping his average to 14.4 during that stretch.
Junior Baba Miller (Florida State) leads FAU's rebounding effort at 7.0 per game and ranks third in the AAC in blocks per game (1.8).
Junior Leland Walker (Eastern Kentucky) is averaging a team-best 4.2 assists, while scoring 9.0.
Since the calendar turned to December, redshirt junior Tre Carroll is averaging 14.7 points per game on 53.3% shooting from the field.
FAU averages 80.8 points per game, second in the American Athletic Conference and 39th in the country.
Eight different Owls have led the team in scoring and the team has recorded at least four double-digit scorers in 17 out of 26 games.

UP NEXT
The Tigers are back at home Wednesday (Feb. 26) to host Rice at 7 p.m. on ESPN +.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE TIGERS
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