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I'm a fan of any guard that can shoot a decent percentage and has size. This guy appears to check both of those boxes so lets sign him up!

I think he'll back up CBM and Howard will compete with Chaney for minutes at the 4. People can of course slide around as needed as the season goes but i think the expected depth chart is this: PG: Pegues and TBD SG: Denver Jones and Pettiford SF: CBM and CM PF: Chaney and Jahki Center: Broome and Cardwell

Chris could be a very important depth piece if he plays like he did to finish this season. Do his usual dirty work and be a threat for a handful of points per game and we'll be happy to have him!

Wish Tre would consider returning...i wonder if that is even on the table at this point. He'd fit in perfect for what we need at the guard position right now.

Wow we’re ending up with a really good core of players coming back! This is great news!!

Really excited we get to enjoy watching Cardwell play and interact with the fan base for one more season! Guys like this might be a rarity going forward. Enjoy him while we can people! Welcome back!!

Excellent pick up!!

Bruce is struggling hard to manage the roster in the NIL era. Hope he can figure it out. Brand new team each year stinks.

Wow, i didn't see this one coming. Thats a hell of a hire by Arkansas after losing their coach to USCw. They needed a splash type hire and they got it! I don't know what the ceiling is for Cal's teams at this point. I'm not convinced the load up on 1 year players formula is one that can bring a school championships in this day and age, but Cal will field super talented teams, win a lot of games, and keep them in the news constantly and thats not a bad situation for arky IMO. Now what dominoes will fall as Kentucky goes looking for a coach? Oats is a possibility i'd have to think.....I would say any school with a coach they really like should be a little worried. That Kentucky bball money goes deep!

Wondering when will wades name would start popping up again. Dude had some talented team at LSU. Have to wonder if he can still pull that off in NIL era where everyone can pay guys. Chris beard…I’d feel for ol miss fans if that happened. I don’t think it likely unless arky pays their coaches a lot more than ol miss. But they do love their basketball at arky so they might

Bet the Arky fans are pissed about this one. He always looked like a rental kind of coach to me. Wonder if he'll stop his wandering ways now that he is back out west at a premier school?

Hate to see him go. Definitely one of my favorite players on the team. Thought he improved a lot from his first to second season and was looking forward to seeing him improve even more. Would have much rather kept Tre versus Aden. But maybe we keep neither and start fresh next season. Sports yay 🙄

It was a great season. Also really a shame it won’t be remembered as one because of one loss. Even one as unexpected and uncalled for as the Yale loss. But that is life when expectations are high like they were for Auburn at the end of the season. Hope everyone cools down and fans and team alike can pick themselves up from it.

Crazy.

Stop eating off the bottom my friend. Come to the mountaintop with the rest of AU basketball!

Oakland got hot and that allowed them to compete with Kentucky but that's not the whole story. Kentucky made crucial errors down the stretch with turnovers and jacking up 3s to match Oakland. That Sheppard guy played especially poorly at the end. Oakland also had a guy (Townsend maybe?) who beat the hell out of Kentucky down low. So yeah it was an amazing game from Oakland but it took mistakes from Kentucky on top of that for them to lose. Also a good defensive team and coaching staff runs oakland off the 3pt line and doesn't allow 15 3s. But that was Kentucky all year. Look great for a few games and then not so good. This game didn't come out of nowhere.

Odds Calipari gets fired over this loss? I would not be surprised if it was on the table right now. Would be hilarious if it happened after his brag interview earlier about how he’s the reason Kentucky has so many players in the nba.

Dang! I wasn’t expecting Kentucky to go out in their first game 😂

And then the defense against A&M in their last game? They can make it to the final four I’m not arguing that. It’s an impressive bunch of talented players. I just think they are missing something. Otherwise they wouldn’t have lost so many games this season.

Kentucky certainly has their own problems to deal with. That defense is bad and that's a lot of youth to be relying on. Neither of those bode well for tourney success.

Bad matchup for state. Michigan state is a tough team to push around.

I think Tennessee has a chance at it. I know they didn’t end the season great but that’s a really good team if they can find the balance between feeding the star vs keeping everyone else involved. Kentucky is possible based on talent but highly unlikely they can string enough good games together. Hope the others outside of bama win a couple of games to help SEC rep but would be surprised if any others make it past sweet 16

I had forgotten San Diego State made a final four run last year as well. 3 of last years final 4 teams in one region. Crazy

I think we are set up really well for our front court next season. I feel much better about having Chaney as our experienced 4 next year. He has started playing really good ball at the end of the season. Things don’t look too fast for him now. He and Jacki should hold things down at the 4 spot. That Jacki kid is supposed to be all kinds of athletic. Be fun to have another high flyer at that position! Center is more up in the air. But I feel pretty good that Cardwell comes back. Not expecting Broome too just based on how they talked about him almost going pro last year after getting good feedback. Figure that feedback is better now that he has improved his 3 pt shot and soon better all around offense. Scott will be in play as well but I have no idea how ready he is. I’d be worried if we didn’t sign an impact starter type at center during the offseason. Not panicked…but worried

Best coaching hire Auburn ever made. Dye might have an argument but i think it would be a good debate. Really amazing how it went down when you look back. Auburn got in on him early just as his show cause wa expiring. Had Barbee lasted a year longer or shorter then the match with Bruce likely never happens.