01/04/2013 Road to the RivalryCan't get enough your Memphis Tigers basketball team? Check out Memphis Men's Basketball 24/7: Road to the Rivalry. The Memphis Tiger Network followed the Memphis Men's Basketball team around a week while they prepared for their rivalry match-up against Louisville. Check out Episode one of this six part mini series. 12/06/2012 Ohio Highlights and Game RecapThe University of Memphis men's basketball team (5-2) had four players notch doubles figures and the Tigers used pesky defense to cruise by Ohio (6-2), 84-58, Wednesday night at FedExForum. Check out highlights and post-game interviews from the Tigers' big win right here on the Memphis Tiger Network. 10/15/2012 Memphis BasketballThe Annual Memphis Madness to kick off the start of Tiger basketball season. 10/11/2012 2012 Memphis Madness PredictionsMemphis Madness is only a day away and the players are excited to get back on the Forum floor. Check out who the players pick to win the 3-point contest and the highly anticipated dunk contest. See you at Memphis Madness on Friday, October 12 at 7:00pm. 11/07/2012 Memphis vs. CBU (Exhibition)The Tigers hosted CBU in an exhibition game at FedExForum on Wednesday, November 7 James Alford is in his second season as an operations assistant on Josh Pastner's staff in 2012-13. When he joined the Tigers program in the summer of 2011, Alford made not only a geographical move from Baton Rouge, La., to the Bluff City, but also a career change from working with college football to college hoops. Alford has moved to Memphis in the midst of exciting times surrounding the program. The Tigers are coming off back-to-back 25-win campaigns (25-10 in 2010-11; 26-9 in 2011-12) and consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (2011, 2012). In addition, Memphis announced in February of 2012 that it is moving to the BIG EAST Conference for the 2013-14 season. In his first year, Alford was a part of the Memphis staff that led the squad to a 2011-12 Tigers' trifecta. Memphis, which posted a 26-9 overall record, won both the Conference USA regular season (13-3 league mark) and tournament championships and also earned an NCAA Tournament berth. In fact, the Tigers made a strong surge in the final stretch to claim the league's regular-season crown, overcoming a one-game deficit to win the title by two games in the last two weeks of the season. The C-USA title sweep was the program's fifth in the last seven years. The former Arizona Wildcats football performer joined the Memphis basketball program prior to the 2011-12 campaign after a solid two-year run. Those two seasons (2009-10, 2010-11), Memphis posted a combined 49-20 record, won the 2011 Conference USA Tournament title and earned consecutive postseason berths (2010 NIT, 2011 NCAA). Alford came to the Tigers hoops program after a two-year stint on Les Miles' football staff at LSU from 2009-11. During his time in Baton Rouge, Alford served as a graduate assistant coach for special teams (2009-10) and defense (2010-11). LSU posted a combined 20-6 record and made consecutive postseason trips, playing in the 2010 Capital One Bowl (19-17 loss to Penn State) and 2011 Cotton Bowl (41-24 win over Texas A&M). Alford earned his master's degree in Kinesiology in August of 2011. Prior to LSU, Alford was a three-year letterwinner (2005-08) and student assistant coach (2009) at the University of Arizona. In his one year as a student assistant coach, the Louisiana native worked with the linebackers and special teams and helped guide the Wildcats to an 8-5 record and a spot in the Las Vegas Bowl. Arizona won the Las Vegas Bowl with a 31-21 win over BYU. Alford earned his bachelor's degree in Sociology in 2008. |
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