Steven Pearl (3/25/25)
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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Summary
The Auburn Tigers and The Alabama Crimson Tide are both in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 40 years. Auburn Basketball is in Atlanta to face the Michigan Wolverines and Alabama Basketball is in Newark to face the BYU Cougars.
Michigan Basketball advanced after a 91-79 win over The Texas A&M Aggies, knocking out one SEC team.
Did Auburn get their swagger back? This the first Sweet 16 since the Final Four run of 2019.
The Alabama Crimson Tide is back in the Sweet 16 after a win over Saint Mary's. Alabama Basketball will now face the BYU Cougars after their win over The Wisconsin Badgers.
Has Alabama's defense turned just in time for March, just like last year?
The SEC was dominant over the weekend, placing seven total teams in the NCAA Tournament, a record. in addition to Auburn and Alabama, Arkansas Basketball, Florida Basketball, Tennessee Basketball, Ole Miss Basketball and Kentucky Basketball all advanced to the round of 16.
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| 0:15.1 | Auburn Associate head coach Stephen Pearl with us now. |
| 0:18.3 | Welcome here, coach. |
| 0:19.1 | Congrats on the wins over the weekend and being in the Sweet 16 again. |
| 0:22.7 | I know that is just |
| 0:24.6 | part of the road to the prize, but |
| 0:26.6 | I guess every time you advance, |
| 0:29.1 | you just breathe a sigh of relief and feel |
| 0:30.7 | good about it for at least a moment. |
| 0:33.9 | And I was more |
| 0:34.8 | of a relief to |
| 0:36.6 | beat Creighton than anything. You know, just hadn't been back there since 2019. |
| 0:41.2 | So it was good to get over that hump, you know, and obviously we beat a really good Creighton team who, you know, we thought has been playing some of their best basketball. |
| 0:52.1 | You know, basically went into Lexington and played a road game against Louisville and, you know, beat them pretty handily. |
| 0:58.4 | So, you know, had our hands full and, you know, beat a really good team to get to the next room. |
| 1:03.9 | Yeah, you and I were texting after your win over Alabama State and Creight and beat Louisville because there had been so much talk about Louisville playing like you said a home game and Louisville being ranked number 10 and all of that talk |
| 1:15.6 | and you and I were texting like dang Creighton just kind of ran them off the court I mean |
| 1:20.6 | I know just your first blush of watching Creighton live you you knew that was going to be a handful |
| 1:26.2 | yeah I mean you know watched them uh in the big |
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