AUBURN, Ala. – The Auburn women's basketball team will ring in 2017 Sunday afternoon in Gainesville, Fla., as the Tigers open SEC play against the Florida Gators. Game time is 1 p.m. CT on New Year's Day at the newly-renovated O'Connell Center.
The Tigers (10-4) are coming off a 53-41 win over Jacksonville on Wednesday at Auburn Arena in which junior Jessica Jones scored a career-high 15 points to lead Auburn to victory. Auburn finished non-conference play with 10 victories for the second straight season.
Florida (9-4) is playing just its second home game of the season as the Gators played their first 12 games away from Gainesville while waiting on the renovations to their arena to be completed.