Chris Denson scored 10 as Auburn scored 84 points against McNeese St.
Auburn put in its best offensive performance under Tony Barbee in its season opener against McNeese State on Friday night, shooting 53.2 percent from the field and scoring 80 points in regulation for the first time in the second-year coach’s tenure.
It was an encouraging sign for a team that struggled mightily on offense last year.
But Barbee’s not about to dwell on the Tigers’ success.
And his players better not, either, not with another game looming Monday.
“It will give us a true test of how they would carry over emotions whether a there is a lot on the positive end or a lot of minuses on the negative end,” Barbee said. “There will be pluses and minuses from both areas of the game, and we want to see how they will be able to put that behind them and go into a fresh start.”
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The Tigers have been on another losing streak, with the loss of Chubb
Auburn University basketball player Robert Chubb, who was suspended from the team last week, was arrested by Auburn city police Jan. 30 and faces four charges.
Chubb, 20, has been charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct, attempting to elude a police officer and resisting arrest. According to police, Chubb faces an April 7 date in Auburn Municipal Court.
He was arrested at 1:47 a.m. Jan. 30 at Genelda Avenue at Thomas Street, according to a police report.
Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said Chubb was released later that day on $1,800 bond — $500 each for disorderly conduct, attempting to elude an office and resisting arrest, and $300 for public intoxication.
Minor injuries were sustained to Chubb and the arresting officer, according to the police report.
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Even with the team’s string of losses, Tony Barbee felt his young Auburn squad was making progress as the year went on, culminating in its first SEC of the year at South Carolina on Saturday.
That progress came to a screeching halt against Tennessee on Thursday night.
The Volunteers controlled the Tigers nearly the entire game, outrebounding, outmuscling and outplaying them in a 69-56 win in front of 6,274 fans at Auburn Arena, as well as an ESPN2 audience.
Barbee had a word for Aubrun’s play: scared.
“It’s a matter of two different programs right now, is what it is. I thought we played scared tonight,” Barbee said. “Why you’d be scared of another college player – I don’t care reputation, how good, ranked, I really don’t care. How could you be scared? That’s how we played. We had a lot of guys – not everybody – but we had a majority of guys who played scared out there tonight.
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Walk-on Wallace added 17, and helped Auburn to it's first SEC win of the season.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Rob Chubb left his shoes in Auburn, just a day before he and the Tigers left behind any notion of a winless SEC season.
Chubb led Auburn with a career-high 18 points and the Tigers put up their second-highest point total for the season in a 79-64 win over South Carolina in front of 10,281 fans at Colonial Life Arena on Saturday, their first conference win in seven tries.
The Tigers’ forward said the team puts all their shoes in a bag before they leave on road trips, and some players were putting in spare pairs to make sure they didn’t go shoeless. Chubb’s didn’t make the cut.
He went through shootaround in a pair of 14.5-sized shoes before the South Carolina staff came through with a pair of his customary 16s.
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