NEW ORLEANS – Playing without its three leading scorers, the Memphis Tigers cut an eight-point deficit with 4:08 to play to one possession on two occasions but could not complete the comeback in an 85-84 loss to Tulane in the American Athletic Conference opener Wednesday night in New Orleans.
Memphis (6-5, 0-1 AAC) was without DeAndre Williams (11.2 ppg, 4.9 rpg), Emoni Bates (10.8 ppg) and Jalen Duren (10.8 ppg, 7.6 rpg) Wednesday night due to COVID-19 protocols and an injury. The Tigers had not played since Dec. 14 after a COVID-19 pause.
The Tigers were led by Landers Nolley II's 19 points, and Jayden Hardaway added a career-high 14. Earl Timberlake also had 14 to go along with eight rebounds, and Malcolm Dandridge had a season-high 11 points.
Josh Minott contributed eight points, five rebounds, three steals and a block in 16 minutes, and Lester Quinones snagged eight rebounds to go along with seven points.
The Tigers played only eight players on the night due to the short roster.
Tulane (4-6, 1-0 AAC) was led by Jalen Cook's 25 points. Five of Tulane's six losses on the season have been by five points or fewer.
Trailing by eight, 81-73, with 4:08 to play, the Tigers held the Green Wave to only two field goals the rest of the way and forced four turnovers to help cut into the deficit. But despite that, Memphis was hampered by going 1-for-7 from the floor and could not take the lead at the end.
The Tigers forced a Tulane shot clock violation with just over six seconds to play, but two potential go-ahead shots in the final seconds did not find the bottom of the net.
In the second half, Memphis shot 58.6 percent (17-29), made five of its seven 3-point tries (.714) and hit 13-of-15 free throws (.867) to help facilitate the comeback attempt.
The Tigers outrebounded Tulane, 40-20, and had 20 assists on 27 field goals.
UP NEXT
Memphis remains on the road to play Wichita State Saturday at 11 a.m. on CBS. The Tigers then return home next week to host Tulsa on Tuesday at 8 p.m. and Cincinnati next Sunday, Jan. 9, at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets and mini plans for 2021-22 are available online at www.GoTigersGoTix.com or by phone at (901) 678-2331.
POSTGAME NOTES
- Memphis used the starting lineup of Alex Lomax, Earl Timberlake, Lester Quinones, Landers Nolley II and Malcolm Dandridge for the first time this season.
- The Tigers have now used seven different starting lineups in 11 games this year and in each of the last four games.
- Dandridge made his first start since his freshman season, Jan. 25, 2020, against SMU.
- The Tigers still lead the all-time series between the two schools, 59-12.
- Memphis had won 12-straight games against Tulane dating back to a 94-87 overtime loss on Feb. 13, 2016.
- The Tigers lead the series since the 2000-01 season, 35-3.
- Memphis was 21-for-25 from the free throw line (.840).
- The Tigers have had four games this season shooting at least 80.0 percent from the free throw line with at least 15 attempts after accomplishing the feat once last season.
- Landers Nolley II has led the Tigers in scoring twice this season and 14 times in his Memphis career.
- His 19 points are a season high.
- Jayden Hardaway hit four 3-pointers en route to a career-high 14 points.
- His previous career high was nine points (vs. South Carolina State, 11/5/19).
- Hardaway had never made more than two 3-pointers in a game (vs. Tennessee Tech, 11/9/21) and had never made more than one in AAC play (5x, last vs. Tulane, 2/24/21).
- Earl Timberlake's 14 points are a Memphis career high.
- He matched the eight rebounds he had at Georgia (12/1).
- Tyler Harris made two 3-pointers, giving him 154 for his Tiger career.
- That moves him past Mingo Johnson (1994-96) into eighth place on the Memphis all-time leaderboard.
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