Yesterday, the Tigers (orange and blue ones) got their first SEC Tournament win since 2015, when they went to the semifinals as a 13-seed. It wasn’t as easy as the 34-point win over Missouri during the regular season, but Auburn still got an 81-71 victory to advance to today’s quarterfinal matchup with 4-seed South Carolina.
The most important fact from yesterday is that Auburn played a pretty poor first half, still led, and never trailed in the second half once the stars actually got going. Seriously, if you told me the following had happened, and that I needed to guess the halftime score, I’d tell you we were down by double digits:
- Missouri hits 8-16 three-pointers
- Auburn goes 3-17 from deep
Those are the ingredients for a cake of epic failure, but Auburn somehow still held a 32-30 edge at the half.