The final week of the regular season didn’t work out as well as it could have for Auburn men’s basketball.
All it really needed was one win, and it got that in an 79-70 upset of then-No. 12 Tennessee on Saturday. But with a matchup against then-No. 2 Alabama preceding it March 1, the Tigers nearly had another upset on their hands before letting a 17-point second half lead crumble into a 90-85 overtime loss in Tuscaloosa.
But the great news is this: A Bruce Pearl-led Auburn team is heading back to Nashville for a postseason play. People are also reading… Auburn’s most recent run in Nashville was also its most notable under Pearl, winning an SEC Tournament title as the No. 5 seed in 2019. The run included wins over 12th-seeded Missouri, fourth-seeded South Carolina, eighth-seeded Florida and third-seeded Tennessee.
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