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Auburn basketball announces home-and-home series against Washington for 2018 and 2019
By Jake Rill
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Auburn opens its football season with a matchup against Washington on Sept. 1. Then, a little more than two months later, the two schools will meet on the basketball court.
The Tigers announced on Thursday that they have scheduled a home-and-home men’s basketball series against the Huskies. They will host the Pac-12 school on Nov. 9. Then, they will travel to Washington for a matchup on a date to be determined in 2019.
“We have worked so hard to create an environment that is worthy of Power 5 conference teams being willing to come to Auburn,” Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl said in a press release. “Auburn Arena has as good of an environment as there is in college basketball right now. For Coach [Mike] Hopkins and Washington out of the Pac-12 to be willing to get into a home-and-home series with us is huge.”
The two schools have only played once in men’s basketball. The Huskies beat the Tigers, 59-29, during the 1947-48 season.
Before conference play begins during the upcoming season, Auburn will also play N.C. State and take part in the Maui Invitational for the first time in program history.
Jake Rill contributes to news coverage for Saturday Down South. He has covered the SEC since 2016.
