This is the Auburn podcast, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.

Zach Blacker being Painter Sharple's here with you.

Hello, Painter.

What is up?

Man, it's a Tuesday.

So sorry, it's a little later than normal friends.

Just expect it every Tuesday. Tuesdays are the worst, but here we are.

Here we are.

So, Painter, we're going to air a, I hopped on the lunch break earlier today with you and Justin Ferguson.

And of course, you can hear the lunch break on ESPN 1067.

But yeah, the majority of today's podcast will be a segment from the lunch break today ESPN 1067. But yeah, the majority of today's podcast will be

a segment from the lunch break today. And we talk about Bruce Pearl. Bruce Pearl is on the

Pat Dye show this week. So you recorded that Tuesday morning. And of course, that airs Thursday.

But we, yeah, you pull up some of the bits from that and we talk about it. So that's next.

Let's turn our attention now to Auburn Basketball. Bruce Pearl is on the Coach Pat Dye show,

which you can hear on ESPN 1067 on Thursdays immediately after the drive with Bill Cameron.

That kicks off at 6 and on Saturdays at 7 a.m. This is what Bruce Pearl had to say to Coach Dye this morning.

At what point in the season did you start to think we may have something really special here

and we may take this thing to New Heights? You know, Tim, I think when we beat Tennessee at home

to close out the regular season.

I thought there was a chance because, you know,

you had to know that Tennessee was a top five team in the country, that Tennessee played really well at Auburn.

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