The Auburn Tigers do exactly what they needed to do.

Welcome on in to this special live edition of Lockdown Auburn.

I'm your host, Zach Blackerby, joined, as always, for this Auburn basketball postcast by my good buddy, Darrell Dapperich.

The Tigers take care of Mississippi State in revenge fashion, Darrell, by winning 78 to 63.

I don't know if we're going to call it the Denver Jones game, but his insurgents,

his ability to score.

It brings so much to this offense, especially now that it's March.

Yeah, before we do a little deep dive, I want to test the memory of one Zach Blackerby.

Me and you were on the phone this morning, right?

We were talking about this game.

You said, uh, what did I say the score was going to be as far as how big Auburn was going to win?

You said 15 and 15.

You nailed it.

I nailed it. You nailed it.

So that would be a fan duel moment for Daryl Daprich.

That's right.

I will say two things, three things were very key to me in the first half.

Number one, Auburn played elite defense.

I mean, you know, to have 29 points, no, 22 points in the first half and the way Mississippi State was shooting from a field goal percentage was attributed to Auburn.

They were locking it down defensively.

So great job.

And then Denver Jones and Cheney Johnson in the first half, you know, had really nice first half.

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