It was a clunker of a game by the Auburn Tigers, no doubt about it.
Auburn traveled to Tuscaloosa to take on an Alabama team that has largely underachieved this year under Avery Johnson but was still viewed by most basketball aficionados as a bubble team for the NCAA tournament. On the other hand, the Tigers were regarded as one of the hottest teams in the nation,
With the nation’s longest winning streak and sitting atop the SEC, Auburn was in a position it hasn’t known, maybe ever. If this were a blue blood team, fans wouldn’t have been very worried about Auburn laying an egg of a game against its rival.