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Saturday Down South A three-game home stand begins for the Auburn women's basketball team Monday night as they welcome the Florida Gators . . . For the fourth time this season, Jaylin Williams led the team in scoring . . . Everything Pearl had to say after Auburn's upset loss . . . Auburn turns its attention now to Georgia's Wednesday visit to Neville Arena . . . "Disappointing loss," Pearl said. Worked really hard to battle back in the second half from being down 16 . . . Auburn fought back in the second half and cut a 17 point lead down to one despite trouble with one sided officiating . . . The Mountaineers defeated the No. 15 Auburn Tigers Saturday afternoon 80-77 . . . Auburn vs. West Virginia: Final statistics . . . Even if Kedrian Johnson suits up, I don't expect him to be 100% and that's going to be a problem given the speed and athleticism this Auburn team has . . . Bet MGM has the Tigers as 3.5-point underdogs . . . Johni Broome gets a second shot at the Mountaineers, after West Virginia handled Broome's Morehead State team in the first round of the NCAA tournament when he was a freshman . . . "Auburn has held its own in this series," Pearl pointed out. "We have been in it and we have had some really good wins for the league . . . West Virginia vs. Auburn: Saturday, Jan. 28, 12 p.m. ET; WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, WV; ESPN . . . Aicha Coulibaly led the way again for the Tigers on offense with 20 points on 7-for-16 shooting from the field. She also tallied three steals, including the steal that sealed the win for Auburn . . . "We lose one game at Neville Arena, and we're already on Psalm 23," Pearl joked Thursday afternoon. "I said, 'Jeremy, you maybe wanted to wait a couple weeks before we went to Psalm 23.'... He was a little quick on the trigger for that . . . The Tigers won 71-68 at Kentucky, snapping a 20-game losing streak in SEC road games . . . "You look at West Virginia and you look at Texas A&M and you see a lot of similarities — tough, physical, hard-nosed," Pearl said . . . All ten SEC-Big 12 Challenge games ranked . . . The Tigers won 71-68 at Kentucky, snapping a 20-game losing streak in SEC road games . . . "I wanted to win. I was tired of losing . . . "I just didn't have anybody who could stay in front of him . . . Saturday's game will be Auburn's seventh on an opponent's homecourt. The Tigers are 4-2 in those matchups so far this season . . . Watch: What went wrong for Bruce Pearl and the Auburn Tigers . . . Playing at West Virginia, Alabama home and home, Tennessee home and home, at Kentucky and at Texas A&M down the stretch always looked daunting . . . Watch: Coach Bruce Pearl discusses Auburn's 79-63 homecourt loss . . . Texas A&M vs. Auburn: Final statistics . . . Texas A&M took command early on the way to a 79-63 SEC basketball victory. Auburn's overall five-game winning streak also crashed and burned, dropping the Tigers to 16-4 overall and 6-2 in the SEC . . . After falling behind 23-17 at the midway point of the half, A&M responded in a massive way outscoring the Tigers 28-7 over the final 10:39 of the half to take a 45-30 lead to the break . . . Texas A&M has won three of its last four games in Neville Arena. Excluding the 2020-21 season, when Auburn went 13-14, the Tigers now have just five home losses since the 2017-18 campaign. Texas A&M owns three of them . . . Just like that, Auburn's 28-game home winning streak — the longest active streak in the nation entering the night — was gone . . . "We are playing 10 or 11 guys and our strength has been our depth. It's great to see guys step up and contribute, get better and help us win . . . Auburn has won five games in a row, and will be put to the test as they play teams such as Texas A&M, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama in the coming weeks . . .
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