Women's basketball suffers worst defeat of the season at Tennessee
Auburn suffered its worst loss of the year to Tennessee on Sunday, falling 79-52.
Auburn suffered its worst loss of the year to Tennessee on Sunday, falling 79-52.
Tyler Harris led Auburn with 21 points on six of 12 shooting, but turnovers, foul trouble and poor shooting led to a 76-61 Auburn loss in Columbia.
Auburn offensive line coach J.B. Grimes will interview for a position on Cincinnati’s staff, according to a report from AL.com.
Noel Mazzone, who was the offensive coordinator at Auburn from 1999-2001, has been hired to the same position at Texas A&M.
Williams, who played at Auburn from 2001-05, has served on the defensive coaching staff since 2009, first as a graduate assistant and then as a defensive analyst.
Pearl will take his team on the road for the first time in SEC play this Saturday when the Tigers travel to Missouri, and he is hopeful the experience gained in Cincinnati and Hawaii will pay dividends in Columbia.
Wesley McGriff, who coached defensive backs at Vanderbilt in 2011 and was the co-defensive coordinator at Ole Miss in 2012, will join Auburn’s staff as the secondary coach and co-defensive coordinator, Auburn coach Gus Malzahn announced Thursday.
Auburn left tackle Shon Coleman will declare for the 2016 NFL Draft, according to a tweet posted on his account Wednesday evening. "It was a very hard decision but I've decided to forego my final year and enter the NFL Draft," the tweet read.
Steele was introduced as Auburn’s new defensive coordinator Tuesday, becoming the third defensive coordinator in three years and seventh in the last decade.
The defensive end will forego a chance to be selected in the 2016 NFL Draft and return for his junior season on The Plains, Lawson announced on Twitter Wednesday.
Canty and Tyler Harris, who spent a combined 75 out of 80 minutes on the court, led a furious second-half comeback against No. 22 South Carolina, but the Tigers ran out of gas down the stretch and fell to the undefeated Gamecocks, 81-69.
The senior is the first Auburn player to receive the honor since Husina Muhammad in the 2013-14 season.
TJ Lang, who has started 11 of the Tigers’ 12 games and played the third-most minutes on the team among guards, was injured in a collision as he and a Tennessee player scrambled for a loose ball with 30 seconds left in the first half.
The Gamecocks, whose starters are all taller than 6-foot-5, will roll into Auburn Arena on Tuesday undefeated and boasting the No. 22 ranking in this week’s AP poll.
Injuries have ravaged the Auburn backcourt throughout the season, and the Tigers could be left with only two scholarship guards available for Tuesday’s matchup versus undefeated South Carolina.
The Tigers knocked off a top-10 opponent for the first time since the 2009-10 season with a come-from-behind victory against the No. 7 Wildcats on Sunday.
Kareem Canty and Bryce Brown scored 20 apiece and combined for ten three-pointers, and Tyler Harris recorded his sixth double-double of the season to lead Auburn over Tennessee, 83-77, in the SEC opener for both teams on Saturday.
Lance Thompson, who coached linebackers at Auburn this season, will join the staff of Will Muschamp, who left after one season as Auburn's defensive coordinator to become the head coach at South Carolina.
Reggis Ball, captured in video, is shown to have tackled an Auburn equipment manager and take a ball before running to the locker room.
Jeremy Johnson scored two touchdowns in his first three touches of the game, jump-starting the Auburn offense en route to its 31-10 drubbing of Memphis.