Washington scored the first basket of the game.
Then Auburn ran off fourteen straight points and the game was over.
Bruce Pearl’s 11th-ranked Auburn Tigers demolished a good Washington team at Auburn Arena tonight, leading by eighteen at halftime and never looking back.
Auburn’s 88-66 win gives the Tigers a winning streak, as they now sit at 2-0 on the young season, with only one game over the next week before the Maui Invitational begins before Thanksgiving.
It was the Samir Doughty show for the first twenty minutes, as the VCU transfer poured in 14 points on 4-6 shooting to go along with a pair of rebounds and three assists.