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Mobile Press-Register "He is competing right now with Yohan for who is going to start, who is going to finish and how much they are going to play," Pearl said . . . "Everyone is really focused on their three-point shot . . . The Tigers' first five home games in SEC play will air on SEC Network . . . Pearl has long utilized deep rotations, and this year could be no different, with Auburn ostensibly going 10-deep . . . Forward Jordan Butler is down to South Carolina, Auburn, and Missouri . . . Photos: Auburn's Tuesday practice as Bruce Pearl's Tigers get ready for the 2022-23 season . . . Bruce Pearl is expected to have another strong basketball team as his Tigers open their regular preseason practice schedule. A pair of newcomers, Johni Broome and Johan Traore, will be counted on to help replace Kessler and Smith . . . Pearl did not give a timeframe for Flanigan's return. Auburn opened preseason practices Monday afternoon . . . The Big 12/SEC Challenge is in its 10th year overall and its eighth in the current single-day format . . . Auburn is the defending SEC regular season champion, posting a 15-3 mark in league play and finishing 28-6 overall . . . Wesley Yates will be announcing his commitment on Oct. 5 and will be deciding between Auburn, Gonzaga, Stanford, Washington . . . Auburn is ranked 4th in the SEC with most rankings having Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and even Alabama in some cases ahead of them. Auburn claims SEC basketball championships in three of the last five years, the most of any school. It looks like the Tigers will have to exceed expectations yet again if they are going to win the league . . . Auburn's home game against rival Alabama on Feb. 11 will tip off at 1 p.m. and air on either ESPN or ESPN2, while the Tigers' trip to Tuscaloosa on March 1 will tip at 6 p.m. and be broadcast on either ESPN2 or ESPNU . . . "I think we have two really good centers, two really good big guards, two really good wings, two really good scoring guards and two really good point guards. I see us playing 10 . . . It's another doozy of a schedule for Pearl's program . . . The project is being pushed to the backburner for the time being, because Auburn needs to prioritize another aspect of its athletics program first: NIL . . . 2024 Airious Bailey spent the weekend on the Auburn campus and gave the trip high marks in multiple areas . . . Airious Bailey, who will be making his second visit to Auburn this year, is ranked as the No. 1 small forward . . . The Tigers will now open the season two days earlier than previously announced as Sam Houston State will visit Neville Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 8 . . . Four-star point guard Tahaad Pettiford has scheduled his first official visit to Auburn this upcoming weekend . . . The men's basketball program will have tryouts to be a walk-on for the Tigers on Sept. 21 . . . Bryant Smith has been added to the Tigers' staff as a student assistant . . . The Tigers will begin their SEC regular-season championship defense on Dec. 28 when the Florida Gators visit Neville Arena . . . Auburn's final three games of the regular-season slate are back-to-back road games against Kentucky (Feb. 25) and Alabama (March 1) before closing things out at home against Tennessee on March 4 . . . The January league schedule for the Tigers features home games on the 7th vs. Arkansas, the 14th vs. Mississippi State and the 25th vs. the Texas A&M Aggies . . . Washington III is the type of guard that would fit in perfectly to a Bruce Pearl system, thanks to his shooting abilities. Right now, the only Auburn commit in the class of 2023 is point guard Aden Holloway . . . "I see myself fitting in well with the Auburn offense," Aden Holloway said. "Bruce Pearl does better with the smaller guards . . .
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