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Man what a let down...CBM has been a head case all season, he has been involved in these sort of altercations ALL SEASON and it finally cost Auburn dearly. I'm not saying that is the only reason Auburn lost but it is definitely one of them. No reason in the world Auburn should lose that game. Refs weren't great but that went both ways, although I think Auburn ended up on the wrong side of too many bad calls. Too many unforced turnovers and missed FTs when it matter most. SEC is looking pretty overrated right now, hopefully one of the 3 teams left can salvage the leagues reputation a little bit...

WOW, what a great team. Both teams played extremely well. I thought the refs let the play happen and then all of a sudden to start the 2nd half the couldn't get the whistle out of their mouths. Auburn needed to do a better job on DK, obviously, to not even let him get that hot in the first place. They had a chance to go right at him in the first when he played awhile with 2 fouls, a 3rd in the 1st could have changed the entire complexion of the game. To his credit he didn't pick up that foul. Auburn will be just fine, and on a neutral court I am confident they can hang with anyone in the country. On a neutral court I have the SEC as UT, Auburn, UK, Bama, and SC. Auburn, Bama, and UK are pretty interchangeable at this point but Auburn's ability to play defense I think gives them the edge.

UF has Auburn's number in Gainesville for sure. Man they played bad, coupled with UF playing great. No excuses, Auburn needs to figure out how to play outside Neville Arena sooner rather than later. Big game against SC on Saturday, luckily at home. This is were the computer rankings and NET are bad because they have yet to catch up with SC's great play, SC being #45 in the NET is laughable, no way they aren't a top 30 team now. UT, SC, Auburn, Bama, UF, A&M, UK are my Top 7 teams right now. Besides UT and SC you could shuffle the rest around and make a case. I think the 2 Mississippi schools can make the dance too for 9 SEC teams.

I agree with most of your takes, especially Holloway!! I said it on another article I think about the last bama game, that he is getting pushed out way to far on the high ball screen to start the offense. He is just not big or strong enough to get around the defender and get downhill or split them with a pass to a rolling Broome. You watch the tape and you will see a huge difference with how Donaldson handles it vs Holloway, add to the fact that Holloway has gone pretty cold shooting, and is quite frankly somewhat of a liability on defense. His minutes will go down. I like him and think he will be a great player, I just think the physicality and size of players he is facing every night in the SEC is a bigger challenge for him then most thought would be. I see a scenario where UT, bama, SC, and Auburn could all end up 14-4 in league play...

it's going to come down to road wins to win the regular season championship. Home teams in SEC games have a total of 16 losses. If you take out ARK, Vandy, and Mizzu who account for 9 of those, the remaining 11 SEC teams have 7 home conference losses! Is someone going to get a massive upset and beat UT, UK, bama, or Auburn at home? SC already lost to UGA at home or I would have them in that group as well...

Schedules get made the year prior for the most part and some times teams that were good aren't good. Hence Auburns non-con of Notre Dame, Indiana, VA Tech, St. Bonaventure, USC, @AppSt, and Baylor. Hardly a powderpuff lineup on paper, it just turned out to be weaker than expected. Auburn is in the Maui Invitational next year so should have 3 quality games from that alone.

Really tough game for Aden Holloway. The bama defense did a great job jumping the high ball screen that starts a lot of the Auburn offense, pushing it way out beyond the 3pt line, forcing Aden to retreat. Broom, or whoever, needed to start slipping that screen to the foul line or Aden needed to reject the screen and beat the defender going the other way. Neither happened. I also remember about 4 or 5 careless turnovers on passes that just went out of bounds on the sidelines or through a players hands not focusing on the catch first. What I would consider unforced TOs at this level. Show me a team that can win tough road games in the SEC and I will show you the regular season SEC Champs. On a good note, I thought the refs did a good job of letting them play and keeping the game under control in a tough rivalry game.

Naw….we really need some quad1 wins first. Auburn is good, really good, but need a signature win, hopefully they get one Wednesday night!

The craziest coach on the court was the Rhode Island coach Archie Miller actually playing defense on a Dayton player. There is an article that talks about how bad this has gotten in CBK. Refs need to start T-ing these coaches up for it. As for Oats trying to push Cardwell, good luck, I doubt he would even notice, that’s a large human being….

The top 4 teams in some order are Auburn, Bama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. It’s hard to put them in any sort of order until more conference games are played. The second tier in IMHO is even more jumbled, A&M, Ole Miss, SC, LSU, UGA, Miss St, and UF. Would love to see 8 or 9 SEC teams make the dance but that would mean a bunch of 10-8 to 12-6 conference records and probably a bunch of dreadful 7 to 9 seeds in the tournament which are very tough to advance from in the dance. Conference is loaded with the best assembly of coaches ever for the league.

the other thing they do well that Auburn guards the last 2-3 years did not, is not jacking up bad shots. Those terrible shot selections are almost as bad as a turnover, and Auburn as a whole has cut that down tremendously. I have the SEC as UT, Kentucky, Auburn, and then a whole bunch of other really solid teams right now.

Auburn is the most balanced team in the SEC and one of the most balanced teams in the nation in you follow and believe in advance analytics. KenPom has them as 1 of only 8 teams with a Top20 ranking in both DEF and OFF(thr the ARK game), and the only SEC team with such rankings...still early, yes, but the early returns and results are bullish on Auburn.

Auburn played well, not trying to discredit that, but Arkansas played very very poor. You don't beat a fellow SEC opponent at their place by that much unless both of those happen. Good win for Auburn, but its only 1 win, got to keep grinding.

That would be preseason rankings or really any rankings between 0 and about 5 games. These are at least about 10 games in for most. I think I read an article where most national champs were ranked in the Top 12 for the week 6 rankings, more than any other week.

UT just dug themselves into too big a hole in first half. UT sent UNC the the charity stripe 38 times where the made 32 of them. UT went to the line only 16 times hitting 12. Same amount of 3pts taken at 28 with UT connecting on 9, 12 for UNC. Didn’t watch much of the game but that is a pretty big disparity in foul shots to overcome, did the refs call it pretty fair? UT’s defense is too good for 61 points in one half and expect them to be right near the top half of the SEC come March. UT had the toughest road game in the SEC for this challenge by a mile…

GeauxTigers, the men ABSOLUTELY get T-d up for that stuff. If taunting is directed towards the other team or the other teams bench, or the refs, they for sure get T-d up. And if a coach interferes with a ref on the side line or touches them it's almost aways a technical especially if it happens more than once. Ask UT fans about their big man and how many T's that guy had this year for that stuff. Refs never had control of this game and it was a terrible showing for the women's game. I think LSU was probably better anyways, it was just a bad look with alot of people watching

I'm sure LSU is a real solid team. But you know something is not right when all anyone is talking about after the game is the terrible refs, bad sportsmanship of the LSU players after the game, and Mulkey walking all over the court and refs for that matter with no technical foul given. Why sports feel the need to HAVE to have ALL female refs in these games(soccer does it too) I do not understand. I remembered why I don't watch much if any women's basketball after that game. I have a daughter who plays and I coach too but I still find it hard to watch on TV.

Auburn final four in 2019, CWS 2019, 2019 regular season 9-3 with an iron bowl win(lost in Outback Bowl)…not bad. UF probably the best stretch though…2005 CWS runners-up, 2006 National Champs in basketball AND football.

Auburn has the 7th toughest schedule remaining in the country and the only team outside the Big12 in the top ten for that...Schedule is going to get harder for sure but they are playing the type of ball that will give them a chance to move up in seeding(or fall if the totally lay an egg). If Auburn goes 13-5 in conference with a win @WVU they have a nice shot at #4 or #3 seed depending on the wins...I think AUB loses @UT, @Bama, @UK. They need to pick up at least 1 home win against either UT or Bama and sweep TA&M. If they do that it's 13-5. The finishing stretch of @UK, @Bama, vs UT doesn't get much tougher than that.

Bama @ OU, Texas @ UT, are the only 2 I feel confident about for the SEC predicting a winner. UK is playing real well and gets a 3 game losing streak Kansas at home. That's a good chance of picking up a big win. UF @ KSU, ARK @ Baylor, and Ole Miss @ OK St look to be the toughest games for the SEC to pull out a win. I am going to say 5-5 with a bigger edge for the Big12 to go 6-4.

Neither do I….I would go Bama, Tennessee, Auburn/UGA, and then the rest. A&M has played some good ball recently, but man is the SEC inconsistent right now. Auburn can play some really, really ugly basketball for some long stretches. I still don’t think there is a go-to scorer on this team. Green when he takes care of the ball and distributes well is the biggest key to success for this team.

Home court advantage in college hoops is worth about 3.5 pts(more for some teams). Gators ended up winning by 7 at home. Seems like the odds makers had it pretty close. I would say these 2 teams are pretty even on a neutral floor.

Every home SEC team won yesterday. You win 5 of your 9 conference road games and go 7-2 at home you are 12-6 and in the top half of the league for sure. Conference champs figure out a way to win on the road. Last year the top 3 SEC teams in reg season only lost road games, Aub 3, UK and UT 4 each.

If the UT game was officiated by PAC12 refs then I would agree with Volman. In Auburn’s loss to USC they called an extremely tight game. A lot of stuff that would be play-on in the SEC was whistle blown. My UCLA friend said that was one of the things he is looking forward to with the BIG10 move. But whatever, Auburn played bad, too many TOs to win that game. It was a bad week for the SEC in the mini SEC vs PAC12 challenge…UK, UT, Auburn all lost

USC was good enough to take Tennessee to OT on a neutral floor so they are pretty good….but I am not saying those 2 teams are better than Memphis, I’m just saying it is another good test for Auburn pre-conference. And the NET rankings are a joke right now, ESPN BPI rankings are much more accurate this time of year….

"Auburn gets its last meaningful pre-conference test, with an undefeated record on the line." Hardly...Auburn plays @USC 12/18 then @WASH on 12/21. Playing 2 back to back Power5 teams on the road(West Coast mind you) will prove to be just as difficult if not more difficult then Memphis in ATL.

Pearl is FAR from the dirtiest basketball coach around...Should he have had better control over his program and Pearson being involved in the FBI bribery scandal? Absolutely. But his infractions at UT are so paltry compared to things done at other programs. If he would have just self disclosed his BBQ and contact with junior in high school recruit he would probably still be coaching there. The guy is a great coach no doubting that, and the players who play for him love him, no doubting that either. You name almost ANY university out there and I bet you can dig up some scandal involving their athletics program. Even the Service Academies have had their problems.

I agree...its PrimeTime on the Plains. I like Cadillac and the admirable job he has done to close out the season, and to the players that really rallied around him. But being a coach for 3 games is alot different than running a program like Auburn for 365. One day Cadillac could be ready but I think he just needs a little more experience before taking the big job. There is no slam dunk coach out there waiting to be hired so why not take a chance with Deion? I think he has a potential higher ceiling then both Freeze or Kiffin but also a lower floor, but that's the position Auburn is in as a program. Take a shot with Deion and see how it goes, and yes he won't back down to the boosters nor should he. Donate the money yes and thank you, but don't get it twisted they an't coaches and know very little about coaching in the SEC.

Really??? UT trying to hire Greg Schiano and the fans holding a protest?? Kiffin leaving the program high and dry for USC?? Bobby Petrino and Jessica Dorrell cruising around on motorcycles and crashing, Mike Price going to strip clubs...I mean the short term memory loss is strong in the SEC but come on....Auburn hasn't had a scandal with any of our coaches that we know about just a bad hire in Harsin....and yeah some boosters getting in the way I agree but if the next guy wins you won't here anything from them.

Jimmy Rane, Raymond Harbert, and Bobby Lowder are the “Big 3” that everyone always talk about but rarely mention by name for some reason.