Good morning.
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Well, who would have thought a month or so ago that on February 18, I’d be leading with basketball? It’s true, though: Vanderbilt enters tonight’s matchup with Auburn (7:30 PM CT, SEC Network) on a four-game winning streak, and returning home after consecutive road wins at Florida and South Carolina. Auburn, meanwhile, had actually lost five of six before drilling Missouri on Tuesday night, but this is absolutely a game that Vanderbilt can win. Win tonight, and Vanderbilt (a) has its first five-game SEC winning streak since 2015 and (b) would clinch a better SEC record than last year’s team, which had Scotty Pippen Jr.