Tigers Look for Quick Rebound Against Grambling State

Thursday, November 19

Memphis, Tenn.

7 pm CT

University of Memphis

Grambling State

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Photo by: Joe Murphy

Tigers Look for Quick Rebound Against Grambling State

Nov 18, 2015 | Men's Basketball

By: Bill Salyer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Tigers will look to rebound from a hard-fought loss to the eighth ranked Oklahoma Sooners with a 7 p.m. battle with the Grambling State Tigers at FedExForum.


Memphis Tigers	Game Information	Grambling State Tigers
Game Notes (.pdf)	TV: ESPN3	Game Notes (.pdf)
Schedule	Greg Gaston (pxp) Jon Albright (analyst)	Schedule
Roster	Radio: 600 AM WREC	Roster
Media Guide	Dave Woloshin (pxp) Matt Dillon (analyst)	Media Guide
	Live Stats: StatBroadcast

SCOUTING MEMPHIS
Memphis comes into its third game of the season following a hard-fought 84-78 loss to No. 8 Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon. In the game, freshman Dedric Lawson became the first player since 2008 to have a 20-point, 10-rebound double-double with 22 points and 15 rebounds. Avery Woodson and Markel Crawford each scored a dozen points, while Trahson Burrell added 10 scores. Dedric Lawson's 15 rebounds were a game-high, as the teams ended the game with each pulling down 48 rebounds.

Behind his big effort against the Sooners, Lawson leads the team in scoring (17.5 points per game) and rebounding (9.5 per game), and is second on the team with seven assists, five blocked shots, and five steals. Shaq Goodwin (11.0), Burrell (10.5), and Woodson (10.5) also average in double-figure scoring. Dedric Lawson (9.5) and Goodwin (8.0) hold the lead in rebounding for the Tigers, while Ricky Tarrant has a team-best nine assists and six steals.

SCOUTING GRAMBLING STATE
Grambling State comes into the Thursday evening battle with a 1-2 overall record, falling 61-53 to East Carolina and 82-55 to Ohio State, while recording an 85-26 win over Mid-Atlantic Christian.
In the last game, a 27-point loss to the Buckeyes, Nigel Riberio and Remond Brown each scored 12, while Ervin Mitchell and Ugur Hortum added 10, as the quartet scored 44 of the team's 55 total points in the game.

Ribero and Michael Bethea average in double-figures for the season at 10.7 and 10.3 points per game, each, while Mitchell and Brown average 9.3 and 8.7 points per game, respectively. Mitchell and Velario Altheimer have each pulled down a team-best 17 rebounds over the three games, as Ribero and Brown lead the team with nine assists apiece for the season.

MEMPHIS VS SWAC
Josh Pastner and the Memphis Tigers have faced off against seven of the ten teams currently in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The team has faced Jackson State 16 times overall, and hold a 15-1
record, as the Jackson State Tigers are the only ones to have toppled the Memphis Tigers in the history of the series with the league.

ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST GRAMBLING STATE
Memphis and Grambling State have met twice prior in the history of the two programs, the first coming on December 4, 1999 with an 84-63 Memphis win, before the Tigers won the most recent contest 98-59 on December
23, 1999.

TARRANT AND GOODWIN AMONG ACTIVE NCAA CAREER LEADERS
Memphis seniors Shaq Goodwin and Ricky Tarrant Jr. rank inside of the top-75 in numerous statistical categories among career active leaders, including points, steals, and free throws (Tarrant Jr.), and rebounds,
blocked shots, and field goal percentage (Goodwin). Below is the listing of where the pair sits, and the two in front of and behind them in the standings.