Auburn Beats In-State Rival Alabama 99-81 | 4-Way tie for 1st in the SEC, Bruce Pearl, Nate Oats

It really does just mean more.
Auburn joins Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee at the top of the SEC. The Tigers got their payback after dropping the first game of the home-and-home series in Tuscaloosa. The first half started with Alabama, shockingly, drilling shots from behind the arc but Auburn rallied to give themselves a 14 point lead headed into the locker room. A key to Auburn’s success was their ability to limit The Tide in second-chance points, holding them to just 12 points and 14 offensive rebounds.
As March looms in the distance, the SEC is continuing to heat up and showing just how good this conference. Hear the full break down from Brown, LT, and Dunaway.
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Auburn beat Alabama 9981 down at Neville Arena it was never close LT after that 152 run to end the first half Bama never got it back to single digits after that run to close out the first half yeah you know what was crazy was they down 17 and then they

Go on a 194 run and or they were down 15 30 to 18 they were down 12 when they at the 10-minute Mark yeah so they they take the lead uh and then Auburn closes on a 19 four run yeah so when Alabama took the lead I was like okay

Well they’re settling in we’re going to have a hell of a game here and then it went back the other way and they just got I mean that was what we call a dick whipping yeah we had that quote last night in our postgame show there but

Brownie as we discussed last night one thing that happened when it was an entertaining good game early on Alabama was hitting threes oh yeah I think I think at that moment where Lance is talking about there where it was 30 to 18 I think at that moment when Alabama

Went on that run they had uh hit hit six threes in the game if I’m not mistaken and they ended up with nine so that tells you how cold they went from the field because they did not quit shooting threes until basically they weren’t making any yeah 3218 was a score at 10:1

Mark and then Rell hits one and they go on that run yeah but then the rest of the way Auburn’s defense on the perimeter was just I mean Alabama didn’t have open shots really from that point on there were very few open looks from three and they played such a great

Defensive game um especially on the outside taking Alabama’s mismatch of when they had four guards on the floor to counter Auburn’s big inside they had the smaller lineup in there which usually opens up shots out on the perimeter for Alabama they never opened up last night Auburn’s defense was

Smothering inside the building and they get the win 9981 let’s get some reaction uh not only from you in the chat room but from postgame last night we appreciate all of you who followed us on social media Taylor down there uh covering it for at next round live

There’s the uh the team leaving the court last night after a row what do you guys call that now Scott is that a you do what a condescending question you do the reverse Alabama cheer what’s it called reverse Dixie Land Del y’all reverse some stuff what is it reverse

What I think that would be the reverse rammer Jammer reverse rammer Jammer that’s what you call that reverse Ram how does that go um they you sing it backwards we they see they seen the Alabama thing uh and just replace uh Auburn with Alabama we just beat the

Hell out of you or maybe they say heck down there is it they beat the heck out of you is that what it was condescending Scott no I I think they beat the hell out of you I believe that’s no matter yes the high school moms and dads Bruce

Pearl afterwards talking about just how big of a game this was uh for Auburn in the SEC race I felt like going in this game was clear the biggest regular season game we’ve had this year because if Alabama gets this one they’re two games up on us and we’re not

Probably not in the championship race and we’d like to still be in it and so we put ourselves in a position where you know at least we’re still in it um crowd was amazing the environment was tremendous ESPN goes to a lot of lot of great buildings a lot of sellout crowds

This place is different I I will tell you this and I saw this in our postgame uh chat room as well brownie that uh um you know it’s loud on television but but you know I saw some people saying it feels like ESPN mutes the crowd a little

Bit well I think do think they have to control the crowd noise just so you can hear the announcers you know what I mean they do have to they have to sort of not mute but they have to ride the crowd mics down and Rite up the announcers so

It is crazier there in person than it comes across on television and uh when people who go to the games go back and rewatch those uh it may seem it seems crazy on television but it is even crazier there in person well I uh I was watching the first half in a restaurant

And left right at the end of the first half and was driving back home at halftime and the SiriusXM on SEC radio their telecast was the Alabama portion so it was Chris Stewart and Brian passing and Tom stype and I think that might be a better test because you could

Barely hear them that’s right as Auburn was going on that run at the end of the half you could barely hear that yeah I mean it jumps through to me watching on TV we watched it uh our buddy will Haver and I watched at a local restaurant and

Got there early like 5:30 to make sure we got a seat at the bar but uh man that I mean that crowd is just it it resembles what you see in the Big 10 what you see in some of the ACC venues like Cameron indor I mean the crowd is

On top of you it’s non-stop nobody sits yeah perfectly designed for basketball and you have to admit Auburn like you like you’re supposed to Auburn plays so differently there than they do anywhere else not that this team can’t win in other places they just did it at Old

Miss and they may do it in the NCAA tournament coming up but when you play there I don’t know where you would how many extra points it’s worth playing there compared to playing anywhere else neutral side or somebody else’s home floor there is a distinct Advantage for

This group of Auburn players in that building they play so much more comfortable there than they do anywhere else yeah I think almost like football you know it’s three points home field most of the times I think home courts around three but last night you know these teams at least coming into the

Game Alabama winning 10 of 11 beating Auburn two weeks ago last night it seemed like these teams were kind of evenly matched but Auburn was a six-point favorite there’s a reason they were six-point favorite because Neville they’re that good in that building yeah I I would tell you I watched that game

And just went back to the one Alabama won and thought to myself why did Auburn not try to play that game in Tuscaloosa like they played it last night they played the game the whole game through Jaylen Williams and Janai broom yeah Jaylen Williams and Janai broom I

Believe it was 30 field goal attempts between the two of them and 50 points between the two of them 99 yeah Jaylen goes for a a career high 26 they scored half their points and Lance Alabama hit what uh 93 yeah I mean look if you’re

Going to give if you’re going to allow Jaylen Williams and Janai broom and this is the problem for Alabama they’re not the defensive team that they used to be if you’re going to allow them to score 50 points Alabama’s going to probably have to hit 15 threes to have any chance

In that game yeah like on given night you go 35% behind the arc you hit 9 threes you got a good shot at winning but you know in that venue against that team by the way 70 what 85 free throws they took last yeah that was ridiculous

Between the two teams not one team that’s why you know normally it’s it’s it’s pretty close to one team didn’t take 85 free throws Albert did take 50 50 to 35 but you know typically you got a two-hour window for college basketball it it normally comes about that two

Hours last night it got pushed to about 225 I me sometimes you’ll get a 210 because you yellow box that says oh by the way so and so and so and so starting over on ESPN news and ESPN plus but to put it in into context of what you’re talking

About 50 free throws for Auburn they made 40 of them which was a school record breaking a record that was set in 1959 when they shot 39 made free throws against Mississippi State or maybe as they recall back then Mississippi Southern or whatever they were back then oh not I guess that’s Southern

Mississippi I guess Mississippi state’s always Mississippi St uh Mississippi an or something like Auburn was fresh off a national championship right but that’s how long that record had stood since the 1950s and made free throws was beard EES erected back then I guess it was I’m sure I’m sure like it

Was sure they were playing in the Auburn gymnasium that’s and I’ve made this point multiple times this year both these teams can sh free throws I mean both Alabama was 28 of 35 80% Auburn 40 of 50 80% I can’t recall the last time I

Saw 75 free throws in a game though yeah that was a lot that’s it’s a little too much there I I don’t disagree well people are going to complain about the officiating about that too many fouls being called were both sides but it didn’t it didn’t affect the outcome of

The game didn’t affect the outcome of the game but that’s how the game was being played I think they had to call those fouls I think there were a lot more not called in that game but I’m kind of the if both teams are doing it

I’m kind of going to let a lot more of it go you know what I’m saying like if both teams now if one team is playing that way and the other is not I might be more apt to call it on the other team yeah but if both teams are playing that

Way I’m almost like you this is the way you coaches want the game I’m going to call it that way yeah I’m shocked there were no technicals in that game it was really close with Grant Nelson and Chad Baker yeah it it was close a couple of

Times but you know on the perimeter Auburn was playing so into the bodies there were a lot of fouls called could have been more but down low Alabama outside Alabama’s having to crawl all over the big men the whole game and that’s where a lot of the fouls were

Being called uh that’s that’s why there were so many fouls called because I think that the the defense was fouling people and they they could have called I think they could have called 85 more here’s what’s crazy as that many free throws were shot free throws were 14

Alabama 16 Auburn at the half yeah that was at the half and look how many they ended up shooting I mean you were only at 30 free throws at the half and they end up shooting 85 55 free throws in the second half yeah because there were

Moments in the first half when it still was being played the way Alabama wanted to play it in space and shooting the ball uh not down in the paint there were moments where Alabama for the first 12 minutes of the game still had a little chance of of being in the contest but

Then at the end it became too much Auburn I was surprised listening um not surprised I guess yeah I guess I’m G stick with my first emotion I was surprised in listening to the Auburn Network on my way back from the event I had to do in Tuscaloosa and uh and I’m

Listening to Auburn and Andy burum and Bruce do their pregame interview and Bruce said this is one of the top five most important games I’ve coached at alurn and I’m sure he meant regular season but and I thought to myself is it that important and then as you watch

That game play out and then Bruce double down with it in the post game and then here is Janai broom afterwards just I mean he made a point to I guess sell it to his team that this was one of the most important games uh that he’s had at

Auburn here’s Janai broom how big of an ener energy booster is this for you in this team oh that was a must win uh you know they was first in SEC and uh you know our goal is to win so uh you know we had to get a separator

You know we had to get one um cuz a lot of people in the league ain’t going to be Alabama you know they’re a very good team so uh that was big that we were able to split with them but we got to just keep it going well we discussed

That on the show I guess it was yesterday is that an Alabama win here they are going to be hard to track down in the SEC almost impossible for Auburn but hard for everybody well I mean you think about it Auburn would have been 7-3 Alabama’s 9- one you’ve got a two-

Game lead you sweep the regular season it’s really going to be almost impossible for Auburn to overc that but it would have been tough on Tennessee and South Carolina too yeah but I still think this is like a battle for supremacy of the state like Alabama’s got it in football Auburn fans don’t

Want to hear that but right now Alabama obviously is a dominant product it’s pretty obvious realistic Auburn fans know it yes but I really you know Auburn had the final four but Alabama was the number one overall seed I mean I don’t really don’t know who the team is is

There an alpha team in basketball both of these teams feel like top 10 top 15 teams this year but nobody has established themselves the alpha yeah I would agree with that I mean Alabama’s won two of the last three conferences and tournaments Auburn um has won three trophies in basically that same period

Of time yeah so I mean I don’t know I mean I just if you guys were on a show in Kansas City and they’re like you know who owns that state and basketball I wouldn’t feel comfortable saying either side not at all and and more importantly

Though I think the and that goes back to the point of Bruce Pearl you lose that game Alabama’s got all the momentum but but more importantly to me is that Auburn and Alabama are their national players at this point in history in college basketball that was the biggest

Game in the country well you heard Barkley you know you mentioned the comments and you know he said there’s no dominant team which I kind of agree with I don’t feel like you’ve got a a team that’s going to roll into this tournament they’re going to be the

Clear-cut favorite I think every team is got a in the armor I don’t think you trust any of these teams entirely but he said auburn is one of the you know 8 to 10 best teams in college basketball I think when Alabama is on they’re obviously one of those teams too

But at the end of the day you’re not going to be surprised if Auburn or Alabama yeah I mean this sounds crazy wins a national championship for the first time yeah my fear with Alabama is I think there are certain teams that they will play that are matchup problems

For them Tennessee is one of them all about the draw Auburn the way they they played their game last night is a matchup problem for Alabama and there’s some teams that won’t be able to match up with Alabama correctly Nate oats after the loss last night and boy I I

Know Auburn people don’t like this guy uh but he he is the most honest coach uh he speak he speaks his mind and he he doubles down and this is this is him last night with his team still tied for first place and listen to what he says

In the post game right here where he just absolutely tells the truth about how that game played out TR was great game great environment it wasn’t great game but the environment was great AU was ready to go we weren’t you know it’s for first place they came out played

Like it was for first place we played like still be in first place if we won which is a little disappointing because we could have separated ourselves a little bit and we didn’t so now I’m guessing I haven’t looked at the scores I’m guessing we’re in a four-way TI the

Lost Comm in first place so you know we’ve got some work to do in these last eight games you know they were better than us they they played harder you know they outrebounded us they were up on the class most of the night they took advantage of our smaller

Lineup inside they turned us over we didn’t turn them over a lot of the effort stats that you look at rebounds turnovers they were better than us so I uh we we got to go back we got to play harder you know they they they were definitely a better team more prepared

They were ready to go tonight yeah there is there’s no excuse making for that guy and he was exactly right they played like it was a game for first place and we played like a a team that we’re still going to be in first place even if we

Lose the game well I didn’t think Alabama was ever comfortable you know when they went on that mini run in the first half but you know he said it you know we turned the ball over we couldn’t turn them over I mean 15 turnovers for Alabama only five for Auburn Auburn only

Turns the ball over five times watch out and and that’s I mean Trey Donaldson and I know Aiden Holloway’s part of that too and a lot of people hold you know dribble the basketball and carry but carry the basketball up and down the floor and distributed and all that but

The way Trey Donaldson is playing and the way he’s playing through contact and people being phys physical with him on the point I really think it goes back if I remember I think I read a story Justin hok talk talked about uh Justin Hokinson talked about Trey Donaldson’s football

Background helps him play through contact a lot um Justin with with auburn live on three Sports they had four turnovers in a game like that um where Alabama had a lot of four guards out there which you know a lot of mobile fast good defensive guys four turnovers they didn’t get their fifth

Turnover until 255 left in the game when the game was way out of hands when they made their fifth turnover that is remarkable ball handling yeah look Holloway is going to be really good once he gets a little more confidence ingame situations but if I’m an Auburn fan I

Feel better with Donaldson and you heard Barkley he said you know he’s not the best player but he’s my favorite player on this roster because of how hard he plays um but you know it really doesn’t matter like I don’t think you can outscore this bench the Auburn bench

Yeah it’s going to be tough they they just just bring bodies at you man that’s a deep basketball team and you know once we get to March it’s going to be a different game because it’s neutral sights every single night but right now you know people were texting me before

Who do you have in this game because they knew we were giving out a play at Lance’s lock by the way I got swept on this series had Auburn in the first match up in Coleman loser had Alabama last night plus six people were like why

Do you like B I was like I just think it’s going to be one of these games that comes down to the wire I said but Auburn’s impossible to beat at home and uh I should have known better and they really are I mean 12 and0 right now at

Neville and when they play just a b game they’re unbeatable there you know what Alabama wasn’t that far off their average turnovers they averaged 12 and a half a game I mean 15 is high but it’s not like it was a crazy high but the problem is you didn’t turn Auburn well

Yeah Auburn averages nine and a half a game and you only turn them over five times and that’s four in meaningful time yeah yeah so I mean you look at the Gap there and you can see how Auburn won that game by the margin they won it yeah

It’s such an interesting theme because now you know they only count one it felt like it was such a big game last night um in fact tumer Corner roll I don’t know if you do it after every Auburn win or not but Taylor who was covering Force

Got down there last night so tumors rolled last night crowd out there enjoying the Auburn Victory as you get to drive by downtown Auburn last night lit up in a lot of War dams as they threw the uh the toilet tissue into the trees down there it’s a big win but it

Only counts at one counts as one now you got to go back this up for Auburn they go on the road at Florida this weekend sneak tough game down in Gainesville um a team that has the size inside that can match up with auburn Auburn’s going to

Have to you know hit some outside shots in this one and then for Alabama you got to you got to put this behind you you got to make sure that the that the old the old car is not broken down you got a little confidence as you go on the road

To Baton Rouge against a not a great LSU team a team you’re so much better than but a sleepy 11:00 tip in Baton Rouge coming off of what just happened to you in Auburn um both those those games raise you know these are these are gut

Check games for you coming off a big emotional win like this for Auburn and a big emotional loss like this for Alabama yeah I agree both seem like trap games if you’re Alabama you almost wish you were playing at Kentucky you know something that really grabs your

Attention you come out and you’ve got to play your best basketball because you know much like Nate said you know it was like we were playing to remain in first you know I’m sure there’s a mentality that this LSU team that got beat by what 20 last night to Tennesseee seemed like

LSU was up two and a minute later they were down 20 yeah and this LSU team is not very good but you just wonder if Alabama is going to be able to get up for an 11:00 Road game by the way uh for Auburn and just because this has been

Kind of a narrative for them another quad one opportunity back to back they get quad one win number two this is another one Saturday at Florida Florida’s the top 75 team obviously in the net so it’s a road game against top 75 another quad one win for Auburn if

They can get it it it’s a gauntlet in the SEC we know that but Barkley did agree with me I know you were playing up to Steven Pearl the other day saying the sec’s better conference than the Big 12 Barkley said Big 12 better confence the better confence and once he left Jamie

Dykes agreed with me that the SEC is better than the Big 12 yeah I think Jimmy knows where his check comes from Charles Charles called him Jamie oh Jamie j and as they were going off the mics are still up and barking he like did I call him by the wrong name yeah

You did the whole interview Charles yes