AUBURN, Ala. – For the primary time in two weeks, the Auburn ladies’s basketball workforce is again inside Neville Area because the Tigers host Ole Miss Sunday afternoon. Sport time is ready for 4 p.m. CT.
Sunday’s sport is the annual We Again Pat Sport, benefitting the Pat Summitt Basis for Alzheimer’s analysis. As well as, the primary 500 followers can decide up a restricted version Neville Area cup, out there in any respect three enviornment entrances.
Followers also can buy a Household 4-Pack for Sunday’s sport: 4 tickets, 4 drinks, 4 scorching canines and two popcorns for $44. Go to AUBTix.com to buy tickets.
It is going to be the second assembly of the season between Auburn and Ole Miss; the groups beforehand met in Oxford on Dec. 29 with the Rebels claiming the win within the SEC opener for each groups.
ON THE AIR
›› Brit Bowen and Larry DiChiara could have the radio name on WQSI 93.9 FM starting at 3:45 p.m. The printed can be heard on AuburnTigers.com and the Auburn Athletics app.
›› Sunday’s sport will be seen on SEC Community with Tiffany Greene and Brooke Weisbrod calling the motion.
LAST TIME OUT
›› Auburn fought again from a 15-point deficit to take a third-quarter lead, however Mississippi State pulled away within the last 10 minutes for a 72-58 Bulldog win Thursday evening at Humphrey Coliseum.
›› The Tigers shot 80 % within the third quarter to show an eight-point halftime deficit right into a three-point lead, heading to the fourth quarter tied 47-all. State opened the fourth on a 7-0 run, Auburn would combat foul hassle but nonetheless get as shut as 5 with two minutes to play, however the Tigers couldn’t shut the hole as MSU made a number of free throws within the closing seconds.
›› Aicha Coulibaly, who missed the final two video games, was large in her return with a team-best 15 factors, eight rebounds, 4 steals and 4 assists, main the Tigers in all classes. Honesty Scott-Grayson added 12 factors, and Sydney Shaw had 9. Mar’Shaun Bostic was a set off the bench, scoring eight factors together with three steals, three blocks and three rebounds.
›› The Tigers used robust protection throughout their third-quarter run and all through the sport, turning 15 MSU turnover into 19 factors. Regardless of the stellar third quarter, Auburn shot 38.7% for the sport to State’s 46.2%. MSU additionally made a dwelling on the free-throw line, hitting 21-of-32 makes an attempt whereas Auburn was 5-for-11. State additionally received the rebounding battle 44-28.
AN AUBURN WIN WOULD…
›› Surpass the Tigers’ win whole from your entire 2021-22 season with their eleventh of the 12 months.
›› Avenge an earlier loss this season in opposition to Ole Miss.
›› Be Auburn’s tenth house win of the 12 months.
AUBURN-OLE MISS SERIES
›› Auburn is 37-28 all-time in opposition to Ole Miss in a collection that dates again to 1978. Ole Miss has received the final three conferences, and Auburn is 3-1 within the final 4 conferences at house.
LAST MEETING: Dec. 29, 2022, at Auburn
Ole Miss 79, Auburn 47
›› Auburn acquired off to a sluggish begin and couldn’t recuperate because the Tigers fell to Ole Miss 79-47 Thursday evening within the SEC ladies’s basketball opener for each groups.
›› Auburn (10-3, 0-1 SEC) struggled from the sector all through, and the Rebels (12-2, 1-0) managed the paint and the boards to tug away for the win.
›› Aicha Coulibaly, returning to the lineup after lacking the final three video games, led the Tigers with 13 factors. Kharyssa Richardson had a team-best eight rebounds together with eight factors, and Mar’Shaun Bostic added 9 factors and led the Tigers with three assists.
›› Auburn shot a then-season-low 25 % from the sector (15-60) and didn’t hit a 3-pointer for the primary time this season. Ole Miss managed the boards 53-37, and the Tigers had been solely capable of rating eight factors off 15 Insurgent turnovers. Ole Miss shot 45.6 % (31-68) from the sector.
SCOUTING THE REBELS
›› Ole Miss is 16-3 general, 5-1 in SEC play. The Rebels began 5-0 within the league however fell to Alabama their final trip.
›› The Rebels common 71.1 factors/sport and maintain opponents to 52.4. In SEC play, opponents are scoring simply 51.5 factors/sport.
›› Angel Baker leads Ole Miss with 14.7 factors/sport. Madison Scott scores 11.8 factors/sport and leads the Rebels with 9.2 rebounds per contest, which ranks third within the SEC.
SCOUTING AUBURN
›› Auburn is 10-8 general, 0-6 in SEC play after a hard-fought loss at Mississippi State Thursday evening. The Tigers received seven straight to shut out non-conference play, the final six coming at house. The Tigers are 9-3 at house this season however nonetheless in search of their first street win.
›› The Tigers rank ninth nationally with 5.5 blocks per sport. Auburn can be top-50 nationally in turnovers compelled per sport at 19.6 (forty fourth).
›› Junior Aicha Coulibaly leads Auburn in scoring (16.5 ppg), rebounding (6.1 rpg) and steals (2.1 spg). She has two double-doubles this season, together with her final coming in opposition to UCF Dec. 3 (17 factors, 12 rebounds). She was a preseason All-SEC Second Staff choice. Coulibaly missed the Tigers’ final three video games of non-conference however has been the main scorer in every of Auburn’s first three SEC video games. She then missed the final two SEC video games vs. Alabama and LSU with an damage, returning to the lineup with 15 factors at Mississippi State.
›› Honesty Scott-Grayson averages 14.3 factors to rank second on the workforce and thirteenth within the SEC. She led Auburn in scoring in seven of the final eight video games in non-conference play, topping the 20-point mark 4 occasions together with a career-high 31 in opposition to North Carolina A&T. She can be the Tigers’ prime 3-point shooter, hitting 45.6% from lengthy vary (26-57). She missed the primary three video games of SEC play with minor accidents however returned to the bench vs. Alabama and to the beginning lineup at LSU. Scott-Grayson wants yet one more level for 1,000 in her profession.
›› Redshirt sophomore Romi Levy recorded double-doubles in opposition to each Alabama State and Little Rock. In opposition to Little Rock, she had career-highs in factors (18) and rebounds (13) for her second profession double-double.
›› Freshman level guard Sydney Shaw leads the Tigers with 3.1 assists/sport. She scored a career-high 15 factors and matched a season-best with 6 assists within the win over Louisiana-Lafayette, and she or he scored a minimum of 14 factors in 3 of the final 4 non-conference video games.
›› Auburn’s newcomers have all made an instantaneous affect with three freshmen – Kaitlyn Duhon, Sydney Shaw and Kharyssa Richardson – beginning every of the primary 4 video games. Duhon scored 17 factors within the win over South Alabama. Richardson had a season-high 9 rebounds vs. Colorado State earlier than leaving the sport with damage, then had 10 factors at LSU. Junior Jakayla Johnson has earned eight begins, scoring 8+ factors in three of these.
UP NEXT
›› The Tigers hit the street as soon as once more Thursday once they journey to Lexington, Ky., to face the Kentucky Wildcats. Sport time is 6 p.m. CT at Memorial Coliseum.