NCAA basketball always surprising
A couple weeks ago, if I were to tell you the Missouri Valley Conference champion would be playing in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament, you would laugh in my face.
A couple weeks ago, if I were to tell you the Missouri Valley Conference champion would be playing in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament, you would laugh in my face.
Campus Recreation kicked off the intramural softball and co-rec soccer season Monday on the Intramural fields.
The players on the Auburn Tennis Club team were not recruited via limousine and they don't have scholarships to play, but they are going to the national championships this year.
Auburn Women's Tennis is led by a dynamic duo, a husband and wife team of tennis teachers. Assistant coach Christine Gray has teamed with her husband, head coach Tim Gray, for the last two years to lead the women of Auburn tennis.
The Auburn Track and Field team will compete in its first outdoor meet in two weeks Saturday, heading to the Yellow Jacket Invitational hosted by Georgia Tech.
The Auburn Women's Tennis team and No. 46 nationally-ranked singles player senior Fani Chifchieva return to SEC action this weekend, matching up against the University of Kentucky at home tomorrow before traveling to Vanderbilt Sunday.
After two straight weeks on the road, the Auburn Men's Tennis team dropped consecutive matches to No.
Fresh off its win in the Tiger/Wave Golf Classic last weekend in New Orleans, the Auburn Women's Golf team now turns its sights to Athens, Ga.
The No. 8 Auburn Men's Golf team finished at the top of the leader board at the 2010 Schenkel E-Z Go Invitational with a team score of 862.
It was a fierce weekend of Tigers vs. Tigers as No. 14 Louisiana State University swept Auburn's Softball team in Baton Rouge.
It's been three years since Auburn's Equestrian team has hosted the Southern Equestrian Championships, but the eighth annual event will return to Auburn this Friday and Saturday.
A love and passion for horses came at an early age for Chelsea Anheuser, senior in marketing and hunt seat rider for Auburn's Equestrian team.
The Auburn Athletic Department has announced Tony Barbee will be the next head coach of the Auburn Men's Basketball team. "We are thrilled to welcome Tony Barbee into the Auburn Family," said Athletics Director Jay Jacobs in a press release Wednesday night. Barbee, 38, has been the head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas-El Paso for the past four years, compiling an 82-52 record and taking the Miners from 10th in Conference USA in 2006 to first in 2010. "Coach Barbee has a vision of competing for championships at Auburn, and the passion to get us there," Jacobs said in the press release. "He is a phenomenal coach, an outstanding recruiter and a fierce competitor." Barbee will be officially introduced as head coach Thursday in a press conference in the new Auburn Arena.
The Auburn Tigers Baseball team accomplished its first sweep in league play since 2003 after completing the last of a three-game series against the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens Sunday.
The lanes were packed and the stakes were high. The state tournament was on the line, and for the competitors that was nothing to joke about.
After serving for six years as Auburn Basketball's head coach, Jeff Lebohas officially been fired."I want to thank Coach Lebo for all that he has done for AuburnUniversity over the past six years," said Auburn Athletic Director JayJacobs in a statement. "Coach Lebo has worked hard and has alwaysrepresented Auburn with character, class and integrity."Unconfirmed reports of the decision began to surface early Fridayafternoon that Lebo, 96-93 overall at Auburn, was to be replaced.
The Auburn Tigers suffered a disappointing 78-69 loss Thursday versus the Florida Gators in the first round of the SEC tournament.
The No. 3 Auburn Women's Golf team swept the one-day Auburn Invitational Sunday earning a 6-over-par team score of 294.
The No. 2 Auburn Equestrian team (11-2) upset the No. 1 University of Georgia (9-2) Saturday at the Auburn Equestrian Center, 12-6.Coach Greg Williams said the riders rode a championship caliber meet."Overall, they're riding the same they have been the past couple months," Williams said.
The No. 17 Women's Gymnastics team closed the Coliseum with a win, beating No. 20 Denver, 196.225-194.350.The meet was the final regular season event in the closing Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum and was also senior night for the gymnastics team.Senior Carmen Nelms, who has been training since she was 3 years old, said she felt this night was 18 years coming."It's kind of bittersweet because this season has been going really well, but you'd like to have your last season going this well," Nelms said.The Tigers swept the beam event, something head coach Jeff Thompson said didn't surprise him."We're at the point in practice now where they have to do wobble-free routines and they do that," Thompson said.