Penny Mania has already taken over the city of Memphis and it will soon start affecting Wichita State and the rest of the teams in the American Athletic Conference.
After the Shockers were darlings at media day last year in their inaugural men’s basketball season in the AAC, first-year Memphis coach Penny Hardaway took the spotlight Monday at the AAC media day in Philadelphia.
“We just love it,” AAC commissioner Mike Aresco told The Eagle. “He’s going to do really well. He’s going to get great players. We needed Memphis to be good. We needed FedEx Forum to be filled.