Memphis beat Tulsa on an incredibly impressive buzzer-beater in the quarterfinals of the AAC tournament on Thursday.

With the score tied and 3.5 seconds on the clock, Tigers guard Kareem Brewton Jr. took an inbounds pass and streaked down the court. As he neared the three-point line on the left wing, he threw up the kind of floater you usually only see in the paint.

It went in.

Memphis advances to face top-seeded Cincinnati in the semifinals on Saturday. The Tigers (21–12) will likely have to win the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA tournament—they’re not even in the bubble picture, according to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi.Remembering Erik Olin Wright Remembering Erik Olin Wright Wright will be remembered as an iconic thinker who embodied the socialist vision that he worked so hard to bring forth. Erik Olin Wright (Aliona Lyasheva, Wikimedia Commons)

Erik Olin Wright, a University of Wisconsin–Madison sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association, died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 23, 2019. He was 72.

Wright’s body of work is voluminous. He began in 1973 with a study of prisons in the United States. From there, he edited and wrote almost two dozen books on class and capitalism. From the “Utopia and Revolution” seminar he initiated and led as a graduate student at the University of California–Berkeley to the book he finished in the intensive care unit of Froedtert Hospital in