Steven Pearl (3/4/25)
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Auburn Tigers are unanimous #1 again this week. It is the eight consecutive week Auburn is #1 in the AP poll, a school record. Auburn Basketball is on the road tonight at The Texas A&M Aggies. Texas A&M Basketball is currently projected as a 4-seed in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology. Auburn Basketball has not lost a conference road game this season.
Why tonight could make even more history for The Auburn Tigers.
The #7 Alabama Crimson Tide will face the #5 Florida Gators tomorrow night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Basketball’s final home game of the season. Both Alabama Basketball and Florida Basketball are projected as 2-seeds in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology on ESPN.
Also in the SEC Tonight:
The Georgia Bulldogs are at the South Carolina Gamecocks
The LSU Tigers are at the Kentucky Wildcats
The Texas Longhorns are at the Mississippi State Bulldogs
The Arkansas Razorbacks are at the Vanderbilt Commodores
Massive bubble implications for:
Georgia Basketball
Texas Basketball
And Arkansas Basketball
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| 0:15.4 | Associate head coach with the Arbor Tiger, Stephen Pearl, is with us from College Station, Texas, |
| 0:19.7 | where Arboran will do battle tonight against Texas A&M. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome in. Coach, congratulations on an SEC championship. |
| 0:27.2 | I don't appreciate it, fellas. |
| 0:28.2 | How are you guys doing? |
| 0:28.9 | Doing awesome. Thanks a lot. |
| 0:30.2 | I mean, we were just talking, and I know you don't care about these things, but we were just talking about the fact, what was the number for Duke? |
| 0:36.4 | How many? |
| 0:40.6 | Duke's, you know, they've got 11.25 plus wins. |
| 0:42.8 | 11, 25 plus points. |
| 0:48.5 | You, Alabama and Florida, who are three of the best teams of the conference, have two apiece. |
| 0:53.3 | It just shows you the strength of this conference that you guys just won, which is insane. Yeah, I mean, just |
| 0:55.8 | from everyone you talk to, just looking at the numbers, it may be the strongest conference in |
| 1:01.3 | the history of college basketball and to find a way to win it with, you know, a week to spare. |
| 1:07.8 | You know, it's obviously says a lot about our team and like coach said before the Kentucky game, our guys have gotten ready to play every single night. |
| 1:15.5 | And that's a credit to them. |
| 1:16.8 | It's a reason why, you know, we were able to find a way to go 15 and 1 through the first 16 games |
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