CLEARWATER, Fla. – Colton Neel threw three scoreless innings of relief and provided a walk-off single in the 11th inning to give Memphis a wild 15-14 win over Cincinnati to stay alive in the American Athletic Conference Tournament. The Tigers (30-28) will now have Thursday off and play the loser of No. 2 seed Houston and No. 3 seed UConn Friday at 10 a.m. (CT) at Spectrum Field.
Memphis and Cincinnati combined for 29 runs on 32 hits and neither team committed an error in the game.
The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game 14-14 and send it into extra-innings where they won it on Neel's RBI single up the middle.