NCAA Tournament March Madness

#38 Auburn

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Projected seed: 11 (last four in)

Auburn’s profile sizes up like a team that can beat anybody on a given night but has also given away far too many bad losses, so a cautious bracket placement fits the resume. The Tigers’ best moments include neutral-site wins over Oregon and St John’s and road victories at Florida and Mississippi plus a big home win over Arkansas that show the offense can carry the team against quality opponents. Those highs are counterbalanced by ugly neutral losses to Michigan and Purdue and a heavy defeat at Arizona, along with a string of late league losses at Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama that expose defensive lapses and poor consistency away from home. The remaining path to safety runs through the SEC tournament and any neutral-site chances versus familiar top opponents, where a couple of quality showings could erase the damage from the bad losses and firmly move Auburn off the bubble.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Bethune-Cookman243W95-90
11/6Merrimack179W95-57
11/11Wofford253W93-62
11/16(N)Houston5L73-72
11/19Jackson St341W112-66
11/24(N)Oregon99W84-73
11/25(N)Michigan3L102-72
11/26(N)St John's17W85-74
12/3NC State34W83-73
12/6@Arizona2L97-68
12/13(N)Chattanooga301W92-78
12/20(N)Purdue8L88-60
12/29Queens NC181W106-65
1/3@Georgia32L104-100
1/6Texas A&M39L90-88
1/10Arkansas15W95-73
1/14@Missouri52L84-74
1/17South Carolina95W71-67
1/20@Mississippi65W78-66
1/24@Florida4W76-67
1/28Texas37W88-82
1/31@Tennessee16L77-69
2/7Alabama18L96-92
2/10Vanderbilt12L84-76
2/14@Arkansas15L88-75
2/18@Mississippi St100L91-85
2/21Kentucky28W75-74
2/24@Oklahoma40L91-79
2/28Mississippi65L85-79
3/3LSU60W88-74
3/7@Alabama18L96-84
3/11(N)Mississippi St100W79-61
3/12(N)Tennessee16L72-62