Auburn had its second come from behind win in back to back games, ending the season with a win.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Auburn erased a 15-point second half deficit as Kenny Gabriel and Earnest Ross each scored 16 points to lead it to a 60-51 victory against LSU in the regular-season finale at the Maravich Assembly Center on Saturday.
It was Auburn’s second straight double-digit comeback win, as the Tigers came from 20 points down to defeat Ole Miss on Wednesday.
Gabriel and Ross each had double-doubles with 11 rebounds and 10 rebounds, respectively.
“It’s almost groundhog day for this team,” Auburn head coach Tony Barbee said. “I tried to play mind games with them before the game and said the first half is the second half. We came out tentative.
“The second half, we did what we needed to do. We were aggressive and turned the heat up and took advantage of it.”
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The Tigers have continued to scrap all season despite their only winning 10 games.
Kenny Gabriel can’t quite put his finger on what it is about this team.
What allows the Tigers to be a non-factor in a 19-point loss against Mississippi State in Starkville on Jan. 16, get down 19 against the Bulldogs in Auburn about a month later and rally back for a dramatic 3-point win?
How could Auburn get drubbed by 31 by Ole Miss in Oxford on Feb. 16, fall behind the Rebels by 20 in Auburn on Wednesday night, and still pull off another 3-point win in its home finale?
“I have no clue,” Gabriel said after the Tigers’ comeback Wednesday. “I asked (my teammates) after the game in the locker room, ‘Where were we in the first half?’
“And they were like, ‘You know we like to put on a show in the second half.’”
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Thge Lady Tigers were bounced from the SEC tourney in the opening game.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With 2.1 seconds to go, down by 2 and with any realistic shot at making the NCAA Regional it was hosting on the line, Auburn got the ball to exactly who it wanted to take the last shot.
Alli Smalley, the Tigers’ only senior and one of Auburn’s top scorers of all time, fought through screens, gained an inch on the two Mississippi State defenders that were trailing her, caught the inbounds pass and lofted a 15-footer from the baseline.
But the shot drew rim and caromed off, leaving Smalley to slam her hand on the Bridgestone Arena court in frustration and leaving the Tigers with a surprising 49-47 loss to the Bulldogs in the first round of the SEC Tournament on Thursday night.
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The Tigers finally get to double digit wins after a comeback win over Ole Miss.
Tony Barbee strolled into the media room for the post-game press conference, plopped himself down behind the middle microphone on the raised table at the head of the room and fielded the first question after his team overcame a 20-point deficit to beat Ole Miss, 76-73, in its home finale Wednesday night.
“We had it in the bag, right?” he asked with a laugh.
The Tigers (10-19, 3-12 SEC), the team with the worst record in the conference, trailed Ole Miss (18-12, 6-9), a team that had handed them their worst loss since 2005 just two weeks ago, by 20 points after a Dundrecous Nelson 3-pointer with 3:57 to go in the first half.
Auburn shook off some of the rust from its awful start to close the margin to 41-25 at the half, but still didn’t look like a team that was on the comeback trail.
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