Bruce Pearl faced the beginning of this last basketball season with uncertainty. Preseason polls ranked Auburn number 11, but forward Anfernee McLemore was returning from a torn ACL, Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy were coming off the bench after sitting out a year from NCAA sanctions, and J’von McCormick was added into the mix.
With the help of veteran leadership in talented seniors Malik Dunbar, Horace Spencer, and Bryce Brown and NBA caliber talents like Jared Harper and Chuma Okeke, Bruce Pearl and his Auburn team overcame adversity to finish 30-10 defying all odds and making it all the way to the Final Four.