PJ Haggerty scored a career-high 42 points for 16th-ranked Memphis in an 83-80 win over Wichita State in a quarterfinal game at the American Athletic Conference tournament.

PJ Haggerty scored 42 points on 16-for-25 shooting to help No. 16 Memphis hold on for an 83-80 win over Wichita State in the quarterfinal round of the American Athletic Conference tournament on Friday afternoon in Fort Worth,

Memphis basketball showed up at the AAC tournament wearing Nike-branded warmup shirts with two words: “Nothing Easy.” That pretty much summed up the top-seed Tigers’ afternoon. It was rarely pretty, but they scratched and clawed their way to an 83-80 win over Wichita State on Friday afternoon at Dickies Arena.