The Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I men's college basketball. The Tigers currently compete in Conference USA, in which they have won seven regular season and six conference tournament championships. The Tigers will leave Conference USA for the Big East in 2013. ESPN Research ranked the men's basketball program as the 14th most prestigious in modern college basketball, and as of 2011, the Tigers have the 29th highest winning percentage in NCAA history. They play home games at the FedExForum. ESPN Stats and Information Department ranked Memphis as the 19th most successful basketball program from 1962 to 2012 in their annual 50 in 50 list.
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Famous quotes containing the words tigers, men and/or basketball:
“When two tigers fight, one is sure to be wounded.”
—Chinese proverb.
“For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)