The Auburn Elvis Blog

Nashville’s a great place to have a tournament. Nice facilities, cool atmosphere. Now, if only Auburn could put together a complete game.
Oh well. For us, and many Auburn fans, we enjoy the whole tournament experience and tend to hang around after the team loses. So, making the best of a first-round lost is nothing new […]

It’s nice to know that no matter how bad Auburn’s Men’s Basketball team is, they can always beat Alabama. The game was close the whole way. But in the end, Auburn’s tenacious defense, Bama’s poor coaching (and some shear dumb luck) gave the Tiger’s the victory.
War Eagle!

Auburn’s only beaten Kentucky 17 times in the program’s history. Today, it was thiiiiiiiiiiis close to being 18. After lulling the Wildcats to sleep in the first half (by falling 19 points behind), the Tigers chipped away at the lead, and went on a 2nd half scoring spurt that tied the game with a few […]

Here’s Tampa’s 10connects.com’s video piece featuring yours truly:

After the most hard-fought and exciting game of the 2009 SEC Men’s Tournament, Auburn pulled out the victory. Florida led most of the way, but simply gave out of gas to the Tigers. It was wonderful to watch.
Now Auburn moves on to their semi-final game against Tennessee (a team they defeated earlier in the season). […]

According to this report, Auburn is virtually guaranteed admittance to the NCAA Men’s Tournament.
What a relief.

Admittedly, it’s a down year for the conference. But finishing 2nd in the division with 10 SEC wins is nothing to sneeze at.
Now, all Auburn eyes turn to Tampa, Florida for the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament. After the first-round bye, Auburn will probably play Florida. It’s not ideal playing them in their home-state, but […]

Alabama proved that even without former Coach Mark Gottfried, they can still choke away a victory to Auburn.
We’re so excited here at the Auburn Elvis household, ’cause now we get to relax the first day of the SEC Men’s Tournament. Usually, Auburn winds up in the dreaded Western #5 spot; which means a 1:00 Thursday […]

Auburn jumped out to a huge lead in the first half and held on the rest of the way.
In the 64 remaining SEC West outcomes, Auburn finished 2nd in 84% of them. Essentially win one more and we’ll have a first round bye in the SEC Men’s Tournament. And even if we don’t, we still […]

Auburn opened the 2nd half with a 23-to-5-run and coasted from there on.
In other SEC basketball news: Mississippi State lost to Tennessee; putting the Bulldogs and the Tigers into a tie for 2nd in the SEC West. A tie which will be broken this Saturday as Auburn visits MSU.
War Eagle!