Wow, I mean, you can't ask for a better opener than that.

You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.

Part of the Locked on Podcast network, your team every day.

Yes, welcome on into a special live edition of Locked-on Auburn.

I'm your host, Zach Blackerby and the Auburn Tigers.

Take down the Vermont catamounts, 94 to 43, and what was one of the more complete Auburn

basketball games in recent memory. We'll talk about the depth. We'll talk about Miles Kelly,

holy cow. But the biggest takeaway here is this season started as ideal as it possibly could.

And that's all you can ask for.

That's all you can ask for with all of the hype and all of the attention being on how high the expectations are for Bruce Pearl squad,

a team where, okay, yet you're bringing a lot of key pieces back in Jani Broom

and Denver Jones and Dylan Cardwell, CBM,

but you're asking them to do different things than they did a year ago.

We saw a lot of Jani at the four, him and Dylan on the floor at the same time,

Denver kind of having a different role.

And then you bring in these transfer guys and you bring in these true freshmen.

They looked really, really good, by the way.

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

But the fact of the matter is there's so much new and there were so many questions about

this team and this roster and how would they play together?

Would it take them some time to get going?

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