Auburn to face UAB Basketball this upcoming season
After being granted a one-year reprieve to remain in Conference USA, the UAB Blazers received more positive news for their basketball program–they will play Auburn this upcoming season.
After being granted a one-year reprieve to remain in Conference USA, the UAB Blazers received more positive news for their basketball program–they will play Auburn this upcoming season.
Atewe missed last season after re-injuring his left leg in an exhibition, which underwent surgery during the offseason.
Senior guard KT Harrell, the SEC's leading scorer, has been named to the All-SEC Second Team by the Associated Press.
Over the four games the Tigers played, Harrell averaged 21.5 points, including a 29-point performance in the quarterfinals against LSU.
In the end, Goliath was too much for David.
They’re not dead yet.
Bruce Pearl’s program turnaround effort is in full force. For the first time since 2000, the Auburn basketball team has won back-to-back games in the SEC Tournament, today’s win a 66-59 comeback victory over the fifth seed Texas A&M. The Tigers came out firing, but found themselves in a 10 point hole at halftime, down 33-23.
For the first time since 2009, Auburn will be playing on the second day of the SEC Tournament. Coach Bruce Pearl’s first season will last for at least one more day, as his Auburn Tigers snapped a six-game losing streak by knocking off the Mississippi State Bulldogs, 74-68, behind 56 combined points from K.C.
It’s do or die time. From here on out, every game for Auburn’s men’s basketball team could be their last of the season as begin Southeastern Conference tournament play Wednesday, March 11, in Nashville, Tennessee. The first opponent is a familiar one in the Mississippi State Bulldogs, who the Tigers lost to 78-71 at Auburn Arena in January.
Senior guard KT Harrell was named Second Team All-SEC on Tuesday morning by league coaches and administrators. Harrell led the conference in scoring (18.1 ppg), 3-point percentage (43.3 percent), 3-pointers made (88) and 3-pointers per game (2.84). This is the second consecutive season Auburn has had a representative on the All-SEC Second Team.
Seniors honored at last home game Prior to tipoff of Auburn’s final home basketball game, a 64-61 loss to Georgia the program honored its seniors, who were playing their last game at Auburn Arena. KT Harrell, Malcolm Canada, KC Ross-Miller and Antoine Mason, who all started their college careers at other schools, were honored at half-court, receiving framed jerseys and standing ovations from the crowd.
"I thought I got a little too reliant on getting KT open," coach Bruce Pearl said. "We didn't penetrate or have enough two-point baskets."
Leading scorer KT Harrell scored 24 points, but his last-second 3-point attempt fell short. Missouri closed the game on a 9-0 run.
“It is just hard,” Pearl said. “The biggest thing is that it hurts. He is just going through it every day. We talk to him every day, text him every day. There is just a huge void in his life. It is a test of his faith.”
Anthony Mason, the father of senior Auburn guard Antoine Mason, passed away Saturday in New York after a battle with congestive heart failure, according to widespread media reports.
The Auburn men’s basketball team lost its fourth consecutive game Saturday in College Station Texas, where the Tigers fell 80-55 against Texas A&M. With Antoine Mason missing the game after his father’s passing, leading scorer KT Harrell scored 18 points but was the only Tiger in double digits.
Things have not gone as planned for Antoine Mason in his first season on the Plains. The nation’s leading returning scorer after averaging 25.6 points per game at Niagara last season, Mason sprained an ankle in his first game as a Tiger, forcing him to miss the next six games. Once he was able to play, Mason wasn’t at full speed.
The Auburn men’s basketball continued its home woes in an 84-61 blowout loss to LSU on Tuesday night in the Auburn Arena.
Excited was not a word commonly used to describe the crowd inside Auburn Arena when Tony Barbee was at the helm of Auburn’s basketball program. Save for games featuring highly-ranked opponents, lines to enter the student section never saw the length they do now, and the parking lots surrounding the arena certainly never met capacity with two and a half hours till tipoff. That changed when a new head coach entered. Since coach Bruce Pearl’s arrival, excitement surrounding the basketball program has reached heights fans on the Plains haven’t seen in years. “It’s just night and day differences,” said Clint Richardson, a member of the leadership team for the Auburn student section and junior in marketing.
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