With a gritty win in College Station under their belts, the Kentucky Wildcats now turn their eyes to the biggest challenge yet: No. 2 Auburn at Auburn. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers are 17-1 and an undefeated 6-0 in conference play, their best start in 63 years. They came up just shy of the program’s first No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll this week; Auburn actually had more first-place votes than Gonzaga, but because one voter put them ninth, the Bulldogs took the top spot. As you can imagine, that did not go over well on The Plains.
Auburn Arena, already one of the league’s most raucous atmospheres, will be absolutely wild on Saturday.