Head coach Bruce Pearl talks about Auburn's win over Kentucky that earned them a spot in the NCAA Basketball Final Four. Montgomery Advertiser
Tony Jones knows Bruce Pearl better than most.
Jones, the former Detroit Southwestern standout who is now an assistant coach at Oakland, spent 12 years on Pearl's staff at Milwaukee, Tennessee and Auburn.
According to Jones, reaching the Final Four "was an obsession" for Pearl.
And he knows just how far Pearl — and this season's Auburn basketball team, the first in program history to make the Final Four — has come to reach this point.