Memphis guard PJ Haggerty, country’s 3rd-leading scorer, going into transfer portal

Memphis guard PJ Haggerty has actually gotten in the transfer website, according to several reports. The country’s third-leading scorer will be playing somewhere else next season.Haggerty, 21, will be a redshirt junior and bet his fourth program in four seasons next year. After redshirting as a freshman at TCU, he transferred to Tulsa for one season before signing up with Cent Hardaway’s program at Memphis.Advertisement The 6-foot-3 guard balanced 21.7 points for the Tigers this previous season, ranking 3rd in the country. He shot 36%on 107 3-point attempts while balancing 5.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.8 takes. That performance earned him AAC player of the year and second-team All-America honors.Haggerty scored 42 points in Memphis’83-80 win over Wichita State in the quarterfinals of the AAC tournament, adding 9 rebounds, four assists and three takes. With that overall, he tied a conference record for points scored in a single competition game.”All of us understand that teams are going to be calling him. They’re most likely calling him now,”Hardaway stated after the Tigers defeated UAB to win the AAC tournament and fans shouted,”One more year!”to Haggerty. “It’s so attracting, right?”he added.” Dangling that carrot like, ‘OK, you can come here and be even bigger than you were at Memphis.'” Obviously, Haggerty believes he can do more in other places, whether that’s in NIL settlement or national profile. Or possibly, with Memphis losing 4 other

beginners, consisting of second-leading scorer Dain Dainja, Haggerty believed it best to carry on. A player with his scoring talent figures to attract high demand in the transfer portal.With Haggerty blazing a trail, Memphis finished 29-8 and won the AAC regular-season and conference tournament titles. In the NCAA tournament, the Tigers lost in the first round to Colorado State, 78-70. Haggerty scored 18 points with six rebounds, three assists and two steals in that defeat.