The 24th-ranked Memphis Tigers, coached by NBA legend Penny Hardaway, blew out American Athletic Conference foe UAB 100-77 on Sunday.

Penny Hardaway knows he sounds like a broken record, repeatedly vowing that his Memphis basketball team will soon stop committing so many turnovers.

Penny Hardaway has made a change to the Memphis basketball starting lineup for the UAB game. For the first time in 16 games, Dain Dainja will get the starting nod of Moussa Cisse at center Sunday (noon, ESPN2), Hardaway said during a pregame radio interview with play-by-play man Dave Woloshin.

The four-time NBA All-Star is complimentary of Aaron Fearne’s program after it prevented the nationally ranked Tigers from pulling away late.

In fact, Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway was first tempted to reinsert the gifted big man back into the starting lineup before the Tigers’ win over Ole Miss on Dec. 28. But he second-guessed himself and opted to stick with the status quo until further notice.

Hardaway has a long-held, deep-seated belief that Memphis does not get the same benefit of the doubt that many other programs around the country do. The Tigers still have one of the more decorated March Madness resumès in the nation, with five Quad 1 wins, a 9-3 record in Quads 1 and 2, and just one loss outside the first two quadrants.

Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway high-fives fans as ... We still start with the Memphis Tigers of the American Athletic Conference. With a strong national brand and competitive football and ...

For Memphis coach Penny Hardaway, Sunday's 77-68 win at Charlotte was more like it. Chagrined that his team was clobbered 49-25 on the boards on Jan. 16 in an 88-81

In fact, Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway was first ... Sunday for one of the biggest conference games of the season, it was time. And Dainja made Hardaway’s decision to flip him and ...

Penny Hardaway sees it, even if there are those ... like leading scorer and All-American candidate PJ Haggerty, for one. “I think we just gotta figure out how to close games better,” he ...

Penny Hardaway sees it, even if there are those ... Leading scorer and All-American candidate PJ Haggerty for one. “I think we just gotta figure out how to close games better,” said Haggerty.

The Tulane men's basketball team hung right with 19th-ranked Memphis for 35 minutes but wilted down the stretch in a hard-fought 68-56 loss on Thursday night at Devlin Fieldhouse.