Will Auburn earn its third win of the season over the Rebels on Friday?
The Auburn Tigers will look to end a two-game losing streak when they play the Ole Miss Rebels on Friday. The game will start a full day of quarterfinal action in the 2025 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament. The game will be televised by ESPN with a tip-off time of noon CT.
Auburn was 2-0 versus Ole Miss during the regular season. The Tigers won the first matchup on February 1st 92-82 in Oxford, Mississippi. It was a blowout for Auburn in the second meeting later in the month with a 106-76 win. According to the ESPN Matchup Predictor, 82.8% believe Auburn will make it 3-0 versus Ole Miss on the season. 17.2% believe the Rebels can pull off the upset.
In the first matchup, all five Auburn starters scored double figures. Johni Broome had a double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds. His frontcourt teammate also had a double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds. The Rebels got a good performance from Sean Padulla with 29 points.
Broome was the top guy for the Tigers in the 106-76 win at Neville Arena in the second matchup to close out February. Broome once again had a big game with 24 points and nine rebounds. Chad Baker-Mazara had 22 points and connected on four three-pointers. Overall, the Tigers had 11 three-pointers.
Ole Miss defeated Arkansas 83-80 on Thursday to advance to the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament quarterfinals. Padulla hit a three-pointer with 1.3 seconds left in the game to break a 80-80 tie. Auburn is looking to regain the momentum from two weeks ago when they defeated Kentucky to claim the SEC Championship.