App State basketball will end a 23-year drought, as it is set to host Auburn in a non-conference faceoff next December.
The Auburn Tigers men’s basketball team scheduled a 2023 trip to App State as one of their few non-conference games of the regular season. The Tigers will come to Boone Dec. 3, 2023, for their matchup against the Mountaineers. This will be the first Power Five basketball team to play in Holmes Convocation Center since North Carolina came in 2000 for the arena’s grand opening.
“It’s hard to do; it’s not easy to get a school like that to come to Boone,” head coach Dustin Kerns said.