Broome to return to Auburn for 2024-25 season
Bruce Pearl and the Auburn Tigers received massive news regarding their 2024-25 roster as Johni Broome announced his return for his third season on the Plains.
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Bruce Pearl and the Auburn Tigers received massive news regarding their 2024-25 roster as Johni Broome announced his return for his third season on the Plains.
Auburn softball head coach Mickey Dean will step down from his role at the end of the 2024 season, it was announced Tuesday. Dean is currently in his seventh season as the Tigers' head coach.
Auburn will begin its 13th NCAA Tournament over 2,000 miles from home as the No. 4 seed Tigers face the 13th-seeded Yale Bulldogs in Spokane, Washington in the first round.
A trophy is coming back to the Plains. Five years to the day of its last SEC Tournament title, Auburn earned another one – beating Florida 86-67 to win the championship. It is Auburn’s third SEC Tournament title in program history and its second under head coach Bruce Pearl.
The SEC Tournament champion Auburn men’s basketball program made the NCAA Tournament for the 13th time in program history, it was officially announced Sunday.
For the fifth time in program history, Auburn will play for an SEC Tournament championship.
Auburn earned its second win over South Carolina this season, beating the Gamecocks 86-55 in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. The 31-point win came one month after the Tigers’ 40-point win over South Carolina in the regular season. It was Auburn’s first SEC Tournament win since 2019.
On March 18, 2014, Bruce Pearl stepped off the plane at Auburn University Regional Airport for the first time as the head coach of the Auburn Tigers. Five NCAA Tournament bids, two SEC regular-season championships, two SEC Tournament titles, a Final Four appearance and 200 wins later, the 10th anniversary of Pearl’s hiring arrived on March 18, 2024.
The first two meetings between Auburn and LSU were thrillers, with each team winning by five on its home floor. The third meeting was anything but a thriller as LSU scored the first 21 points of the game, cruising to a 78-48 win in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. Auburn never led in the game and trailed for the final 39:45 as its SEC Tournament run ended.
Down by a run in the eighth inning, Auburn used a pair of late homers to win its series opener against Austin Peay 7-6. Christian Hall tied the game in the eighth with a solo shot and Mason Maners led off the ninth with a solo homer to walk the game off for the Tigers. The thriller provided a dramatic start to Auburn’s final weekend nonconference series of the season.
Auburn opened its SEC Tournament run with a 67-48 win over Arkansas, advancing to the tournament quarterfinals for the first time since 2019.
In a matchup of the SEC’s highest-ranked teams, one player made the difference as No. 11 Auburn fell at No. 4 Tennessee 92-84. Dalton Knecht, who came into the game as Tennessee’s leading scorer with 20.1 points per game, went off for 39 as the Volunteers overcame an eight-point deficit to beat the Tigers.
Returning to the court for the first time in a week, Auburn defeated Georgia at Stegeman Coliseum, 97-76, winning its fourth road game in SEC play. It was Auburn’s largest win over Georgia in Athens, Georgia, since 1977, when they defeated the Bulldogs by 24 points.
In some good news for Auburn following last night's loss, Jaylin Williams' knee injury was not as significant as originally feared and the fifth-year senior is expected to play for the Tigers again this season, it was announced Sunday.
Just one game after a season-best offensive performance, No. 13 Auburn struggled mightily on the offensive end in a 70-59 loss to No. 22 Kentucky, the Tigers’ first loss at home this season. The Tigers never led in the game, trailing for the final 37:50 of play.
In its early bracket preview show, the NCAA selection committee named Auburn as its current No. 13 overall seed. The Tigers, who would be the top No. 4 seed in the bracket, would currently be placed in the West Region.
Auburn opened its 2024 season with a dominant win over Eastern Kentucky at Plainsman Park, downing the Colonels 17-6 in seven innings. It was Auburn’s eighth Opening Day win in Butch Thompson’s nine seasons and kept the Tigers’ coach perfect in home openers in his career.
No. 11 South Carolina arrived at Neville Arena with a seven-game win streak and a lead in the SEC standings. It left with a 40-point loss as No. 13 Auburn broke its heart on Valentine’s Day, handing the Gamecocks a 101-61 defeat – by far their worst loss of the season.
For the 15th straight time, Auburn left Gainesville, Florida a loser as the Tigers struggled mightily in an 81-65 loss to the Florida Gators. The Tigers, who came into the game looking to break a 28-year streak of futility at the O’Connell Center, instead found themselves on the losing end of a blowout for the first time this season.
ESPN’s College GameDay will return to Auburn for a fourth time ahead of the Tigers’ game against Kentucky on Saturday, Feb. 17, it was announced Saturday. It marks the fourth time in the last five seasons the show has visited Auburn, with the only exception being the 2020-21 season in which the show did not travel.