toddc 13,194 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) Whoomp! (There It Is): Tigers rise to No. 1 in basketball ByMARK MURPHY 8 minutes ago Share21 Comments Please turn off your ad blocker if you wish to view this video. Fast Break: Auburn takes down Cats for 15th straight win AUBURN, Alabama–After close but no cigar pushes toward the No. 1 ranking in college basketball in three other seasons, the 2021-22 Tigers made Auburn hoops history on Monday by moving to the top of Associated Press Top 25 poll. Auburn moved up one spot to replace last week’s No. 1 team, Gonzaga. The 18-1 Tigers received 45 first place votes and 1,504 poll points. Gonzaga, which is 15-2, received 15 first place votes and 1,475 poll points. Arizona, which is ranked third with a 16-1 record, received one first place vote and 1,381 poll points. Baylor, the defending national champion, is fourth with 1,335 points. The Bears are 17-2. A pair of homecourt victories since the last poll vs. the Georgia Bulldogs and Kentucky Wildcats extended Auburn’s winning streak to 15 consecutive games. The Tigers are 18-1 overall and lead the Southeastern Conference with a 7-0 league mark. Kentucky remained at No. 12 in this week's poll and is the second highest ranked SEC team in the AP Top 25. Tennessee is 18th and LSU is 19th. Auburn has defeated LSU and has yet to play Tennessee. In the previous week’s AP poll the Tigers moved from fourth to second after receiving 36 first place votes. The Tigers received 1,482 poll points, just behind Gonzaga’s total of 1,486. The Bulldogs finished ahead of the Tigers despite receiving 11 fewer first place votes last week. After the rankings were revealed last week, Auburn head coach Bruce Pearldidn’t claim the Tigers were the best team in the country, but did say based on his team’s strength of schedule and on-the-court performance the Tigers had done enough to deserve the No. 1 spot. “I think we are one of the Top 20 teams in the country,” Pearl said about his team prior to taking command in the SEC race with wins over Georgia and a Kentucky team that came into Auburn Arena ranked No. 12 nationally on a four-game winning streak. “I think we are one of the top five or six teams in our league,” Pearl said about being ranked No. 2 nationally. “As far as where we wind up, that's where we wind up. That's how you play the season so we have just got to continue to do the things that we are doing and know we have got to get better if we're going to continue to win.” The Tigers began the season ranked No. 22 in both the AP and coaches Top 25 polls. In the AP rankings the Tigers moved to No. 21 in week two, No. 19 in week three and returned to No. 21 after their only loss of the season in overtime to UConn at the Battle for 4 Atlantis in The Bahamas. The Tigers resumed their climb in week five moving to No. 18, No. 13, No. 12 and No. 11 before moving into the Top 10 in week nine at No. 9. The Tigers jumped five spots two weeks ago to No. 4 and were also No. 4 in the coaches poll. After staying No. 22 for the first three ratings by the coaches the Tigers moved to No. 20, then up to No. 21 before advancing to No. 14, No. 12, No. 11, No. 9, No. 4 and No. 2, according to the coaches. Auburn teams had been as high as No. 2 in the AP Top 25 poll, but never No. 1, even the 1998-99 Southeastern Conference regular season champions, who went into the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed. That team, coached by Cliff Ellis, climbed to No. 2 on February 22nd on the way to finishing 29-2. The Tigers were No. 4 in the final poll that season. The following season the Tigers were ranked No. 2 in the Nov. 22nd poll and dropped in the rankings after finishing 24-10. Auburn finished that season ranked No. 24 by the AP. The 1958-59 Tigers, coached by Joel Eaves, reached No. 2 on Feb. 16th during a season they posted a 20-2 record. Auburn finished eighth in the final AP?poll. That 1958-59 team holds the record for the longest Auburn winning streak to start an SEC season with 13. This season’s team has the second longest streak with seven heading into Tuesday’s game at Missouri. Overall, the Tigers are riding a 15-game winning streak, which ties a streak that ended in 1961 and another with Pearl as head coach during the 2019-20 season. The longest streak of 30 games ended on Feb. 21, 1959 and the second longest of 17 ended on January 20, 1999. Tipoff for Tuesday’s matchup at Missouri is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. CST with television coverage on the SEC Network. Edited January 24, 2022 by toddc 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddc 13,194 Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 PIN it to the 🔝 @bigbird 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmbseeker00 119 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Link to AP poll... https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll?week=12… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boisnumber1 2,818 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Whoop! Great to see. Newell still has us at 5. Dude is just dumb beyond words. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LKEEL75 2,566 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yngwie1995 2,229 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 No words for this idiot... 3 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigers23 648 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Would have never even dreamt this 10 years ago. Gotta love BP. WDE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bro Johnny Mac 1,391 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgrogan21 6,198 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Newell is a Kenpom copy and paster we all knew he would have us at 5. BUT AUBURN BASKETBALL IS #1!!!! EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81spacetiger 157 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Votes ranking AU Gonzaga 1 45 15 2 13 43 3 2 2 4 1 5 1 61 61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81spacetiger 157 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 And we all know who the tail dragger is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishepa 1,900 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 That Newelll guy is simply doing it for attention. If everyone ignored him it would be better. He's getting just what he wants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boisnumber1 2,818 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Just now, fishepa said: That Newelll guy is simply doing it for attention. If everyone ignored him it would be better. He's getting just what he wants. That's what I initially thought, but after seeing and hearing his comments...he's just a total dumb@$$. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumps 3,704 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 War Eagle! Mission #1 complete: getting to number 1. Now let’s get to work on mission #2!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgrogan21 6,198 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 There was a voter that dropped us from 1 to 3 ... after beating his #10 team. There will always be someone to hate. But for now lets just enjoy the freaking #1 spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUinMS9528 1,086 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 BOOM!!!!! War Eagle!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuNuma1 1 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 So, finally, Auburn BBall is....numa 1! WDE! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgrogan21 6,198 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 The location 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravejd 3,269 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Woohooo Congrats to the basketball team on earning this #1 ranking. Pretty amazing to be sitting here with all the new faces on the team. They worked really hard in the offseason to come out strong in spite of the newness of playing with each other. All that hard work is paying off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81spacetiger 157 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 29 minutes ago, tgrogan21 said: There was a voter that dropped us from 1 to 3 ... after beating his #10 team. There will always be someone to hate. But for now lets just enjoy the freaking #1 spot. Yes, Paul seems to like the PAC12, Arizona really impressed him to get to #1. A bit odd, UK rose 2 spots to #8 after loosing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredst 9,064 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 So awesome! Doesn’t mean much ultimately but a great accomplishment nonetheless for Coach Pearl and all of these hard working players. Wonder if Mikey is still sorry we hired that liar Pearl🤔? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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