The AAC tournament is now critical to the Memphis Tigers’ postseason, following a heartbreaking buzzer-beater loss to Houston on the road. The Tigers’ game schedule for the tournament will be
- Friday vs. East Carolina or UCF, 9 PM, ESPNU
- (if they win Friday) Saturday vs. an opponent which will likely be Houston, 4:30 PM, ESPN2
- (if they win Saturday) Sunday vs. an opponent which will likely be Wichita State or SMU, 2:15 PM, ESPN
Sunday is Selection Sunday at 5 PM on CBS. If the Tigers win out and win the championship game on Sunday, they’re in via the conference’s automatic bid.
If the Tigers beat Houston on Saturday but lose the championship game, it’s iffy – a win against a projected 2/3 seed is always nice, but a neutral court win won’t mean as much as a road win.
If the Tigers don’t win the championship or beat Houston this coming weekend, hello, NIT. Is the NIT even happening this year? …yes, it is, and it’s moving to Texas for a year, where the COVID restrictions on selling tickets are much looser. Typically the NIT is played in Madison Square Garden.
Virtual Memphis Beer Fest 2 happens this Saturday. It’s a safe beer festival you can enjoy in the comfort of your home… or, I suppose you could gather with a few friends and have your own mini-beer fest. There are way too many details for me to summarize here. Click the link if interested. A lot of the Memphis breweries and some regional breweries are participating.
Announcement Tony Westmoreland of the Tandem Restaurant Group made yesterday:
Open interviews atCarolina WatershedMonday and Tuesday between 11am – 4pm. Or send your resume over to me or any of our restaurants through Facebook.
Tandem Restaurants is growing and we’ve been steady through this pandemic. With spring and summer right around the corner business is picking up and we’re hiring again for all staff, cooks – servers – hosts – food runners – bartenders. Whatever scene and hours you’re looking for we have it. From dive bars to music venues to upper scale dinning we can get you into a position that allows for growth within the company and there’s also benefits such and health insurance and pod vacations. Currently there are 6 locations and we’re working on 4 more this year. Looking for great restaurant people to join a team composed of all industry workers, we can get you where you want to be.
Tandem is the company behind Carolina Watershed, Ben-Yay’s, and Sugar Grits Downtown.
Random thing I learned yesterday: 18th-century English poet Lord Byron was not a big fan of his contemporary William Wordsworth. Byron referred to his fellow poet as Turdsworth. That is just fabulous.
That’s the news for today. Back tomorrow.