A Tale of Two Tigers: Auburn’s Rise, Memphis’s Fall
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We have about seven weeks to go until the start of March Madness, and there’s a surprise team at the top of the rankings: the Auburn Tigers, who are holding the No. 1 spot for the first time ever. Today, The Athletic’s Seth Davis tells us three key reasons why the Tigers have emerged as one of the best teams in the nation. And on the opposite end of the Tiger spectrum: a close look at all the turmoil surrounding Penny Hardaway’s Memphis program, and how a season that started with big expectations is threatening to spiral out of control.
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| 0:46.0 | We have less than seven weeks to go until selection Sunday, and as March Madness gets closer, |
| 0:58.0 | there's a surprise team at the top of the rankings, the Auburn Tigers. |
| 1:05.0 | The Tuckies always been the top cat in the SEC, but right now it's the Tigers that take the spot and keep it. |
| 1:12.0 | And maybe for the first time in school history go to number one. |
| 1:16.0 | Today the athletic Seth Davis tells us why it's a great time to be an Auburn Tiger |
| 1:21.0 | and the keys to the rise as one of the best teams in the nation. |
| 1:25.0 | And why it's been a very different story for Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers |
| 1:30.0 | as a season that started with big expectations is threatening to go completely off the rails. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm coaching really hard, my boys are playing really hard, I'm not embarrassed about nothing. |
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| 1:43.0 | We got young kids on the floor. They got young kids on the floor. |
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| 1:50.0 | It's Tuesday, January 25th, and this is the lead. |
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