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February 17, 2019
Opelika-Auburn News Auburn will win games and lose games based on its 3-point shooting . . . Harper dished eight assists, including a no-look pass to Dunbar for a wide-open layup to stretch the lead to 57-49 with 3:45 remaining . . . "Our effort, our energy, our defense — we really stayed with it," Dunbar said. "I appreciate the team. I feel like we came together through our losses, we fought through it, and we picked up a good win . . . With shots not falling, the Auburn Tigers focused on defense to steal away from Memorial Gym with a very rare win . . . "We've not played our best basketball yet," Pearl said . . . Auburn hasn't won inside Nashville's Memorial Gymnasium since Feb. 16, 2000 . . . Vanderbilt (9-15, 0-11) has not given up despite an awful season, losing by 10 or fewer points in each of its last four games . . . Pearl discussed the fact that there's not a lot of quality guard play happening behind Bryce Brown and Jared Harper . . . ITAT HD: Bruce Pearl Previews Saturday Game At Vanderbilt . . . With a win on Sunday, what would be Auburn's 19th, this would be the program's winningest season since 2008-2009 . . . A look at Bryce Brown's Auburn basketball career . . . Bliss' batting line on Saturday might look unimpressive, but he had three lineouts, following up on a big game on Friday that included a triple and two RBIs . . . ITAT HD: Butch Thompson Discusses Loss To Ga. Southern . . . Not only is the home dugout now dedicated in name to Auburn's winningest coach in program history, Hal Baird, but now both dugouts have been sprayed with a protective coating to protect the dugouts from the unpredictable year-round weather conditions that trouble Auburn — and the rest of Alabama . . . He started Auburn's postseason game against Northeastern, the first start for an Auburn freshman pitcher in a NCAA tournament since 1998 . . . Auburn hosts Georgia Southern at 6 tonight, opening the 2019 season with the start of a three-game series this weekend with the visiting Eagles . . . Auburn returns a lot of familiar names among its position players, but its only constants in the field will be junior Will Holland, who enters his third season as the starting shortstop; and sophomore Williams, who is the returning starter in right field . . . Butch Thompson sets Auburn's starting pitching rotation . . . After spending the last two seasons on Gus Malzahn's staff, Brown will take over as Purdue's cornerbacks coach . . . Watson and Glenn proved to be the catalysts for Auburn on Friday with high scores on vault to begin the meet . . . "Arkansas is a thorn in Auburn's side for the last five or six years, and they're definitely coming in to get their act together . . . The Tigers had 68 percent of their at-bats on Thursday night count as a quality at-bat . . . It was also the driving force behind Davidson's decision to return to Auburn for his senior season instead of declaring early for this spring's NFL Draft . . . "Auburn golf has a special place in my heart for both shaping me as a young man and a golfer and now being my home . . . |
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