1. I’m not sure when I realized the 2023-2024 Tigers were my favorite Auburn men’s basketball team ever. Maybe about the time Johni Broome — with his team clinging to a 3-point lead on the road and less than 7 minutes to play in a must-win game — threw a laser-guided one-handed dime out of […]
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Six Thoughts on the 2021-2022 Auburn Tigers, SEC Men’s Basketball Champions
One. Ask Tiger fans for the defining moment of the 2021-2022 Auburn men’s basketball season (thus far), and answers will vary widely. Fans have many fine jaw-dropping options. So it feels odd mine isn’t a basketball play at all. Mine occurred during a timeout with 5:49 remaining in the first half of Auburn’s win in […]
Welcome to the Land of Gravy
At 12:42 a.m. this past Sunday morning, I cracked open a second celebratory beer and raised it to the man whose inspired performance had made that celebration possible: T.J. Finley. Yes, of course, Finley had little to do with Auburn’s Saturday night exorcism of 22 years’ worth of Tiger Stadium bayou voodoo. The superhero cape […]
Isaac Okoro, the 2020 NBA Draft, the Atlanta Hawks, and me
Hello! I’m Jerry. I am an Auburn basketball fan. I am also an Atlanta Hawks fan. 25 years stood between Sonny Smith’s departure and Bruce Pearl arriving to whisk Auburn out of the basketball desert in his magical hot air balloon, and at no point in those 25 years would those two statements have been […]
Auburn 80, South Carolina 67: Sha la la la la la live for today
Hit it, The Grass Roots: This Thursday has mostly been an exercise in telling myself not to dwell on the box score from Auburn’s cathartic win over Frank Martin’s Gamecocks. After 10 minutes of continued offensive anxiety — punctuated by Samir Doughty missing an open layup that told us “KINDA GOT THE YIPS RIGHT NOW, […]