Bruce Pearl at Auburn - in ten years, only once has he made it out of the opening weekend

Bruce is the reason bama started taking basketball serious. You’re welcome.

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Bruce Pearl at Auburn - in ten years, only once has he made it out of the opening weekend

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Yep. Frustrating.

But how many opening weekends did we even have before Bruce? How many of our opening weekends didn’t need to include a superstar talent like Barkley or Daniels?

Bruce has done a great job at one of the historically worst basketball programs in the country. Multiple conference championships and a final four appearance.

Things can get a lot better if he can find some guards that can get us through March Madness.

been saying it for years most overrated coach in sec

Bama's AUbsession continues...
>little brother syndrome<

This year is the only time he's made the tournament at Auburn and got eliminated before the second round. Not counting the COVID year (which he would have 100% made the tournament at 25–6 with the SEC-T still left to play), he's gone five out of nine years, and five of the past six. But his Final Four run was the only time he's done better than that. He had an oddly slow start, given the expectations when he was hired.

Considering Auburn isn't a "basketball school," he's really doing pretty good. But he's not as consistently good as he was at Tennessee, and it's not like they're known for basketball, either. I'm afraid he may have raised the bar at Auburn to a place he can't even reach himself at this rate.

In his 5 Tournaments, Auburn was seeded 4, 5, 2, 9, and 4.

If expectations are met from a seed standpoint, that should have produced 8 NCAA Tournament wins. During this period, Auburn has 7.

That’s just slightly under expectations. Would have been nice to have several deep runs, but coming up one game shy of what were expectations is not necessarily all that egregious.

I think what’s more important is the fact that Bruce has taken a previously dead program to 5 of the last 6 NCAA Tournaments, and had it not been for covid it would be 6 of the last 7.

That’s a remarkable accomplishment.

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