Auburn advances with 80-61 victory over Jacksonville State
"Auburn's defense was outstanding. That’s been what has carried us all season long and that gives us our best chance in the tournament,” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl.
"Auburn's defense was outstanding. That’s been what has carried us all season long and that gives us our best chance in the tournament,” said Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl.
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girl in red kicks off her sold out "Make It Go Quiet" tour in Atlanta, GA with special guest Holly Humberstone.
Auburn went wire-to-wire against the Frank Martin led Gamecocks (18-12, 9-9 SEC, defeating South Carolina 82-71. Jabari Smith led in scoring once again with 21 points, his third straight 20 point game, and KD Johnson was not far behind with 18.
Thanks to performances by Olympic Gold medalist Sunisa Lee, senior Derrian Gobourne and the largest crowd in Neville Arena history, Auburn set a program record with a score of 198.575, tying the Gators.
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“This is one of the best regular season wins I’ve had,” Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl said. “It was awesome to see the fight they had on the road and how bad they wanted to win this championship”.
“Nobody got settled Tonight, I like that," head coach Butch Thomson said on tonight's win.
For the second straight year, Auburn (10-18, 2-14 SEC) has been eliminated in the first round of the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament.
Following the game, Coach Thompson expressed gratitude for the opportunity to get much-needed experience for some of the teams’ key players including Nate LaRue and Cam Hill.
Kentucky, and especially Rhyne Howard, proved too much for Auburn in Lexington as the Wildcats prevailed 90-62 in the regular season finale.
After beating Jacksonville State, the No. 21 ranked Auburn Tiger softball team (15-1) came back home to battle in The Plainsmen Invite, a series that included teams as ULM, Delaware State, Bradley university, and Syracuse.
The Tigers shot it at a 35.4% clip, while the Volunteers shot it at a 32.8% clip. However, Tennessee has a big edge in both rebounding and free throw shooting. The Volunteers outrebounded Auburn 54 to 31 and grabbed 21 offensive boards.
“I was really proud of the girls, the way they settled down and kept building throughout the meet...We’re going to look back on this and feel like this made us better," Jeff Graba said.
“I thought we passed open a lot of wide-open shots, and then we took some bad shots. We got better in the second half. But then we just didn’t guard them, we gave them wide-open shots in that zone.
Coach Pearl also said, “We have a long way to go and there’s a lot of room to get better.”
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This is the Tigers' second Top-25 win this season.
Auburn icons The Brook & The Bluff head to Athens, GA for a sold out show at The Georgia Theatre.