Tigers Women's Basketball Hosts Tulane Sunday

Cheyenne Creighton MEMPHIS, Tenn. – On Sunday, "it" begins for the University of Memphis women's basketball squad.

The "it" is a stretch of playing four games in seven days that starts with the Tigers hosting Tulane in their American Athletic Conference home opener at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse at 4 p.m. (CT) Sunday. ESPNU is televising the Tigers-Green Wave match-up.

The reason for the NBA/WNBA-like schedule to start the 2015-16 conference slate is how the December calendar fell in 2015. At the annual spring meeting last May, the American Athletic Conference presented the league's coaches a conference schedule that started Dec. 27. The coaches, though, voted to move the league start date back…