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Auburn basketball has another opportunity Tuesday to earn a quality win as No. 20 Vanderbilt visits Neville Arena. If you are wondering where to watch the action live, you have come to the right place.Auburn basketball (14-9, 5-5 SEC) aims to get back on track Tuesday as it enters the game with No. 20 Vanderbilt (19-4, 6-4 SEC) on a two-game losing skid. However, the task will be tall as Vanderbilt checks in at No. 14 in the latest NET rankings and ranks in the top 20 in several analytical categories measured by KenPom. Auburn head coach Steven Pearl acknowledged…

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AUBURN — The close of a daunting six-game stretch for Auburn basketball is near, but the Tigers will need a strong finish to remain in solid standing for the NCAA Tournament.The push started on a high note, with Auburn upsetting Florida on the road before beating Texas at home, but back-to-back losses against Tennessee and Alabama now have the Tigers sitting at .500 in conference play, tied for 10th in the SEC standings.Auburn’s gauntlet ends this week, starting with a home game against No. 20 Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Feb. 10, (6 p.m. CT, SECN) before heading to 21st-ranked Arkansas over…

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Vanderbilt's backcourt duo earns SEC weekly honors in the same week for the third time this seasonBIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For the third time this season, the Vanderbilt women’s basketball backcourt duo of Mikayla Blakes and Aubrey Galvan earned awards from the SEC in the same week, as the league office announced on Tuesday that Blakes was named SEC Co-Player of the Week and Galvan earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors.The Commodore underclassmen guided Vandy to a pair of top-25 wins this past week. Blakes averaged 35.5 points, 5.0 assists and 3.0 steals per game, as she shared SEC Player…

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Can the Commodores bring enough firepower to The Jungle?Vanderbilt is trying to shake off a 1-point loss at home to the worst team in the SEC, Oklahoma. Granted, getting it to one included Vanderbilt stageing a 19-point comeback in the last 3:24 of the game. Tonight, the Dores are at Auburn, who blew a game against Alabama and their now-ineligible Center Charles Bediako.The Commodores are again without Frankie Collins and Duke Miles, so can enough players step up to get a win against the 14-9 (5-5) Tigers?This is the title for the native adHey! Forget the three-game losing streak!Kentucky is…

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AUBURN — The latest collapse in what’s becoming a long season for Auburn basketball had little to do with struggling to stave off a comeback. In fact, it was quite the opposite.For as many massive leads as the Tigers have squandered in SEC play, the shoe was on the other foot in their battle with No. 20 Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Feb. 10.An 11-point halftime deficit for the home team never came much closer as a smattering of comeback efforts late weren’t enough to stave off an eventual 84-76 defeat that extended Auburn’s losing streak to a season-worst three games.The closest…

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Given the context, No. 20 Vanderbilt men’s basketball may have pulled off its most impressive win of the season on Feb. 10.A tough loss to the last-place Oklahoma Sooners on Feb. 7 had Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington questioning his team’s intensity on defense. They responded with a near wire-to-wire victory over Auburn at Neville Arena.From their poorest outing of the season to one of their best in only three days.”What a response to come back from not playing well a couple days ago,” Byington said on the team’s postgame radio following the 84-76 win. “Only a few days after (the…

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In this story:As the gym got quiet and Vanderbilt’s players gathered around midcourt at Auburn’s Neville Arena, Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington made a declaration. And he meant it. “I know you guys are ready to play,” Byington told the team. “I can tell you guys are ready to play.” The declaration came after two and a half days of prep that Byington’s Vanderbilt team hoped to use to flush what happened to it in its Saturday loss to Oklahoma–in which it went down by as much as 21 and suffered what was a quad three loss at the time. That Saturday performance was…

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AUBURN — Still down by double-digits in the second half at home, it soon became desperate times, desperate measures for Auburn basketball.Well, “desperate times” might be a stretch. Even though the Tigers have now followed up a four-game winning streak with three straight losses — including back-to-back ones at home — T-Rank says their chances at making the NCAA Tournament have fallen all the way down to… 85.9%.“It’s disappointing, because we had two teams that were really good, that had good analytics, that could have really helped our résumé, and we lost to both,” Steven Pearl said Tuesday after an 84-76 loss…

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