Auburn Fan Club Weekly: Basketball Tips Off Against SE Louisiana
Auburn Fan Club Weekly: Basketball Tips Off Against SE Louisiana
The season is underway, and the Auburn Men's Basketball squad tipped off Wednesday night in Neville Arena. The Tigers won 92-59 over Southeast Louisiana with the home team taking an early lead and never looking back. Tahaad Pettiford led the way with 18 pts, and a punctuation right before the break in the form of a half court shot he banked in just before the buzzer. The scoring was largely spread around with 5 Tigers scoring 10 or more points.
Defensively is where the Tigers really shined tonight. Auburn combined for 11 blocks on the night. Bukky Oboye led the denials with 5 on his own. Steven Pearl's squad had 50 rebounds scored 1.3 points per possession.
This victory marks the 68th straight non-conference victory at home for Auburn.
Auburn will host Appalachian State next Monday, Nov 9 @ 9pm ET (SEC Network). App State has played two games already this season. They have victories over Christendom (108-43), and Merrimack (63-49).
Elsewhere around campus Soccer had a defensive battle that ended in a 0-0 draw in the regular season finale. Auburn earned a 6 seed in the SEC tournament. The Tigers will face off against LSU on November 8th at 3pm ET from Pensacola, FL. This team only allowed 5 goals all season, a program record and fewest goals allowed in the nation. None of those 5 goals were allowed in the 2nd half. The 12 shutouts was also a program record. 6 of those shutouts were against SEC teams... also a program record.
The Auburn Volleyball team defeated Oklahoma 3-2 at Neville Arena on Nov 1. The game was tied 50 times, and had 17 lead changes. Anastasija Ivkovic and Kate Mansfield combined for 26 kills and 9 blocks. Auburn is currently 13-10, 3-8 in SEC play.
The women's squad is back in action tonight (Nov 5) vs Southern Miss. The game tips off at 7pm ET at Neville Arena (SEC Network+).
Thursday (Nov 5) through Sunday in Tallahasse, Florida at the ITA South Sectional Championships.
Thursday (Nov 5) will be the first dual meet of the season. Diving starts at noon ET followed by swimming at 1 ET on SEC Network+. The Men are currently ranked 14 while the women are in the 19th spot.