This team is crazy to watch. I've been to every home game this season. For much of each game, it looks like we slop around and turn ourselves over too easily. Then, you look up, and we are winning by 10-15 points. It's not always graceful, not always pretty, but almost always a winning recipe.
We just haven't had a team like this at Auburn...ever. A team that doesn't live or die by any one element of the game.
Some nights it is our three-point shooting carries us (albeit rarely), when other nights it is our low turnover ratio, or a single player effort, or an all out block party. This team can beat anyone soundly in a myriad of different ways.
The strength of this team is undoubtedly our defense. It is the reason why we have only lost three games, of which the worst defeat was by one point at the end of regulation. No one else in the country comes close to making this claim. We are probably only carrying one Double OT loss to UCONN if not for crazy environments like Arkansas two weeks ago and Florida last week.
When the defense is the strength of the team, like ours, games can tend to look sloppy at times, but man, its an awesome feeling to walk into any arena on any given night and know that our team should win. It's been a long time since I ever felt that way about any Auburn team in any sport.
I believe that we will win the SEC Regular Season Championship outright, and the Tournament Championship. We are probably only carrying one Double OT loss to UCONN if not for crazy environments like Arkansas two weeks ago and Florida last week.
This team should decimate all at a neutral site, all things considered. And once we get into March Madness, I can only hope we get some Big10, ACC officials that allow big men to play big boy basketball and not call meaningless ticky-tack fouls in the paint.
This team is awfully reminiscent of 1988-1989 Georgetown with Mount Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning, but with better offense and surrounding talent.
This is the best team in the history of Auburn Tiger Basketball, and anything outside of a Final Four birth would be disappointing at this point.