'If Auburn has an identity as a team, then it would be toughness,' columnist Joseph Goodman Jr. writes after Chris Moore's bloody performance in Auburn's SEC Tournament loss last night.
Maybe that’s the story for Auburn this season. We’ll see. The most important stage remains, the NCAA Tournament, and Auburn feels like a nine seed. On this season, Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said, “A lesser-character team would have just quit, and this team hasn’t.”
“He’s a warrior,” said Johnson, who led Auburn with 20 points in 29 minutes off the bench. “Everybody’s not going to get him around the country. It don’t matter if he’s playing or not playing, he’s going to have a way to affect the game. Moore is a 6-6 junior forward from West Memphis, Arkansas. The other side of the big river. The tough-as-a-tugboat side apparently. What’s Pearl’s favorite Moore story?
Moore says he knows he’s played a good game if he bleeds so much he has to change jerseys. Moore wears No.5 when he starts games, but sometimes he finishes wearing No.41. It’s a neat trick. No.41 is the “blood alternate.” I don’t know if that’s the actual name. I’m just making it up. This is how proper basketball traditions are born. Everyone in The Jungle student section next season at Auburn games should wear No.41s drizzled with blood.“I put that No.
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