The 26th-ranked men's tennis team will travels to Baton Rouge, La., to face the 35th-ranked LSU Tigers Friday at 3 p.m.
Auburn (11-6, 3-3 SEC) will bring momentum from Saturday's upset win against the 14th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats to the meet, while LSU (7-10, 2-4 SEC) will look to rebound from Saturday's loss to the No. 2 Tennessee Volunteers.
"LSU's got a good team," said head coach Eric Shore. "It's going to be a very tough match. They have a really tough crowd.
"We're going to have to just go down there and walk in and do our job and see what happens."
Auburn defeated LSU 4-1 earlier this season at a neutral field, but playing in Baton Rouge presents a different challenge.
"It's tough to go on the road," Shore said. "LSU is a very tough place to play.
"We've had problems there, so we've got to be ready for a really good battle there Friday."
LSU will feature the nation's 12th-ranked doubles team of senior Sebastian Carisson and junior Neal Skupski, who had their four-game winning streak snapped against Tennessee.
Auburn will try to duplicate its success in doubles against Kentucky, where junior Alex Stamchev and sophomore Andreas Mies turned in a dominating performance, and senior Tim Puetz and freshman Daniel Cochrane secured the tiebreaker in No. 1 doubles.
"Just doing the same stuff--playing with the same energy and doing the same stuff that's working so far," Stamchev said. "We don't have to change anything right now."
No. 31 Puetz also scored a big win in singles, defeating No. 4 Eric Quigley.
Puetz said he and the team will take a lot of confidence from the win against Kentucky as they go on the road to play LSU and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
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