#8 Auburn 88 vs Xavier 79 FINAL ***** WE WANT DUKE!!!!

We coming and we ain’t backing down!!


Up first Xavier!!





A few notes, courtesy of Auburn media relations:

» Auburn is set to participate in its first Maui Jim Maui Invitational in program history. The Tigers are 5-6 in Hawaii all-time, including winning the 1998 United Airlines Tip-off Classic in Honolulu.

» Auburn is 3-0 for just the third time in the last 12 years, but for the second time in three years. The only two previous times the Tigers started 3-0 during that period they started 4-0, in 2011-12 and 2016-17.

» Through the opening three games, Auburn has scored 292 points (97.3 per game). That is the second-most points scored in the first three contests of a season all-time.

» Auburn has defeated South Alabama (+43), Washington (+22) and Mississippi College (+51) to open the season. It is the first time the Tigers have opened the season with wins of 20 or more points in their first three games since the Tigers’ SEC championship season of 1998-99. Only twice in the program’s history has Auburn opened a season by winning its first four games all by at least 20 points, in 1927-28 and 1976-77. Auburn’s scoring margin of +38.7 ranks 10th nationally.

» Auburn has fared well in the past two-plus seasons in the non-conference slate. The Tigers lead the SEC in both wins (26) and winning percentage (.897) in non league regular-season games over the last two-plus seasons.

» After being one of the youngest teams in the NCAA last year with one senior, Auburn boasts 13 upperclassmen and has 4,182 career points returning for the 2018-19 season - eighth-highest in the country.

"I’m very pumped," Auburn center Austin Wiley said. "... We helped build this program up from where it was and our whole goal in Maui is to win it and just show them that Auburn basketball is serious if they don’t know already. We’re here, we’re here to compete."

Projected starting lineups
Auburn
G Jared Harper (5-11, 175): 15 ppg, 7.3 apg
G Bryce Brown (6-3, 198): 13.7 ppg, 2.7 rpg
F Chuma Okeke (6-8, 230): 14 ppg, 8.7 rpg, 3 apg
G Samir Doughty (6-4, 195): 15 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 2.3 app
F Anfernee McLemore (6-7, 220): 8 ppg, 6.3 rpg

Xavier
F Tyrique Jones (6-9, 235): 13.3 ppg, 9 rpg
G Paul Scruggs (6-3, 200): 11.7 ppg, 4 rpg, 3.7 apg
G Kyle Castlin (6-4, 193): 6 ppg, 5.3 rpg
G Quentin Goodin (6-4, 194): 13.5 ppg, 4 apg
F Naji Marshall (6-7, 222): 14.3 peg, 8.3 rpg, 4 apg

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