The last few years, Auburn has raised its basketball profile high enough to be invited to several of the prestigious Thanksgiving showcase tournaments around college basketball. Since 2016, Auburn has played in Cancun, Charleston, Maui, Brooklyn, and Ft. Myers over Feast Week, and it’s led to the Tigers getting to match up against premier non-conference opponents like Duke, Xavier, and Gonzaga.
This year, Bruce Pearl leads his team into the most high-profile tournament yet - the Battle 4 Atlantis, at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. The field includes perennial powers Michigan State, UConn, Syracuse, a solid Pac 12 team in Arizona State, two of the best mid-major programs in the country in Loyola-Chicago and VCU, and of course, defending national champion Baylor.