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From Wally Tinker

Wally Tinker, game ball in hand, strolled past the free-throw line and stopped about 7 feet from the hoop outside the paint.

With 9,927 fans cheering as loudly as they had all night in Auburn’s 89-80 upset victory Wednesday over Mississippi State, the former Tiger wasted little time before sending a high-arching shot toward the hoop, stationed right around the same place he hit the first basket in Beard-
Eaves-Memorial Coliseum more than 41 years ago.

So long Bearded Eaves

As much as coaches, players and pretty much everyone else in the Auburn athletic department have talked excitedly about the new Auburn Arena, it likely doesn’t even sniff the buzz that took over the campus more than 40 years ago.

Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum certainly isn’t “The Barn.”

“You didn’t know which board to jump off of,” former Auburn forward Bill Alexander said. “In that Old Barn, you had special boards where, boy, you could really jump off them.”