Following an 82-79 loss at Georgia on Dec. 1, Memphis coach Penny Hardaway compared his group to an AAU team.
"I'm really gutted from looking at this," he told reporters. "We look like an AAU team. It looks really bad, and I don't really understand what these guys are thinking."
Three days later, following a 67-63 loss at Ole Miss, Hardaway said the vibe in the Memphis locker room has been "miserable."
"We've got so much negativity in our locker room with veterans being jealous," Hardaway told The Athletic.
If the results raised eyebrows, the quotes sent the college basketball world into overdrive.