Auburn Men’s Basketball’s announced another neutral site opponent for the upcoming non-conference slate as the Tigers will take on Ohio State in the Holiday Hoopsgiving held at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The contest will mark Auburn’s fifth consecutive year of competing in the Atlanta-based event with a 3-1 all-time having met Memphis, Nebraska, Memphis and Indiana.
“Playing every year in Atlanta in the premiere college basketball event has been an important part of the development of this program,” head coach Bruce Pearl said. “We were the first and have been the only SEC school to play every year in this important event for college basketball in Atlanta – home to some of the best high school basketball in America. In the last six years, we have had six players from Georgia (Isaac Okoro, Chuma Okeke, JT Thor, Sharife Cooper, Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler) drafted into the NBA.”
Ohio State will mark the second opponent on Auburn’s schedule next to a neutral-site matchup with the 2023 national runner-up Purdue on Saturday, Dec. 21 in Birmingham, AL.
In addition to the two Big Ten foes, Tigers will notably face Houston, Duke and three teams from the Maui Invitational in November.
The matchup in Atlanta will be the second all-time meeting between Auburn and Ohio State, having last met in the 1999 NCAA Sweet 16 with the Tigers falling 64-72 in Knoxville, TN.
The Holiday Hoopsgiving tournament field also includes games between Florida, Arizona State and Georgia, GCU.
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