Trevor Releford looks around Auburn Arena that the Tide owns.
AUBURN, AL – Little brother got schooled again Tuesday night by the Crimson Tide in another sport, on its own campus, in its own house, as Anthony Grant led his team to a decisive 68-50 victory over the Auburn Tigers.
The win was Bama’s fourth straight over Auburn, and second in a row in Auburn Arena. The Tiggers have never beaten Alabama in their new $86 Million barn.
The little Aubies were in a frenzy leading up to the tilt, packing the house an hour before gametime–this according to Auburn mouthpiece Phillip Marshall.
But they would only be claiming their seats to witness a beatdown reminiscent of the 42-14 throttling handed down 73 days earlier at the hands of Nick Saban, appropriately making the halftime festivities mundane (with no trophies to celebrate).
The occasion had the locals so distrought that profanity could clearly be heard, with echos of “bull sh*t” raining down after each of Auburn’s three technical fouls. Hmmm…Auburn receiving personal or technical fouls, resulting in a loss of composure and class. Now THERE’S something you don’t see from Aubies.
I guess foul language, obscene gestures and thuggery are just part of the family atmosphere we hear Aubies preaching about so very often.
Senior forward JaMychal Green led Alabama with seven rebounds and 19 points, including a 15-foot buzzer beater to end the first half. The jumper sent the Tide to the locker room with a comfortable 35-24 lead. Sophomore guard Trevor Releford managed 15 points while sophomore guard Charles Hankerson, Jr. added 14 points off the bench, including three consecutive 3-point daggars. Freshman guard Rodney Cooper (who has a sweet stroke, by the way) scored all eight of his points in the second-half, including 2-of-2 from the three-point line.
“Obviously any time you put these two teams together there’s going to be a lot of excitement,” UA head coach Anthony Grant said. “Our guys understood the challenge that we had. I thought we were able to create some transition opportunities. We handled the changing defenses well and everyone that stepped on the floor for UA gave a great effort.”
Auburn got off to a quick start to begin the game, jumping out to a 14-7 lead in front of a crowd that was foaming at the mouth. But faster than Onterio McCalleb can run out of bounds, Alabama reversed the Aubie fortune, going on a 28-10 run to close out the first half.
“I thought we came out with great energy and weathered the storm early,” Grant said. “I’m proud of the way our guys responded.”
Bama’s bench would outscore Auburn’s 28-9 for the game, this in response to the indefinite suspension of Tony Mitchell.
Auburn pulled within six to open the second half, but Bama would again generate a run of its own, outscoring its bovine-loving host 19-6 to cruise on to an easy road victory.
The only thing more disgusting than Auburn’s free throw shooting was the zit Auburn head coach Tony Barbee sported on his nose for the occasion. Auburn found themselves in the double bonus with over ten minutes to play. But the Tigers simply couldn’t cash in from the charity stripe, and that’s putting it nicely. Stevie Wonder would have had a better chance at sinking free throws. I honestly haven’t seen free throws missed that badly since the days of Shaquille O’Neal.
But all wasn’t lost. With the loss Auburn moved one day closer to swimming season, where the Tigers hold a commanding lead in the sport nobody cares about.
A few stats
After going 1-3 against the Tigers to begin his tenure at Alabama, Alabama head coach Anthony Grant is now 4-3 in the series. Auburn’s last win on the hardwood in the series came January 30, 2010…two years and nine days ago.
Alabama now leads the all-time series 88-56, holding a 26-25 record in Auburn. As already stated, Alabama has never lost in the swanky new Auburn arena.
Tuesday’s 18-point beatdown matches the Tide’s largest margin of victory in Lee County, the first coming in 1995.
With the win the Tide improved to 16-7 on the season, and 5-4 in SEC play. Alabama’s RPI heading into the game was solid at 31, the road win improving Bama’s post-season resume.
Alabama stays on the road this Saturday, traveling to Baton Rouge to face LSU. The Tide took the first match 69-53 on January 11 in Tuscaloosa. Saturday’s game is slated for a 6:00pm tip, televised by ESPN2.
Auburn will return to Tuscaloosa February 29th. The home crowd will celebrate the return of the ODK Foy Sportsmanship Trophy to T-Town, where it will likely stay as long as Nick Saban is in Tuscaloosa and Gene Chizik is at Auburn. Bama will also take the occasion to remind the Tigers what a legitimate National Championship trophy looks like.
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GREAT WIN!!! RTR
got to take care of bidness in baton rouge as well
Scoring 2 pts in the last four minutes.
Who or which was it that played on under?
Applying the same Barner crap they pull on us about BDS:
Bama owns The Barn at Anthony Grant Arena
No one cares about basketball.
Unless Auburn won, then you’d be the first one here crowing about it
i hate bama but i respect them, auburn has the whiniest hypocritacle fan base in the nation!
And the most racist. For two years in a row, they’ve shouted racial remarks at our basketball players. It’s quite pathetic.
I just hope they can keep it up. $86 Million barn. Wait till more Auburn fans read that Roll Tide.
“…faster than Onterio McCalleb can run out of bounds…”
hahahahahahahahahahaha! Aw man, that’s funny!
Auburn is gonna beat Bama in swimming and diving when they win the SEC for the 16th year in a row this weekend.
Wonder if the CR will go out of their way and create an entire thread just o make make mention of this “whipping”.
…of course not.
Legitimate NC, we beat your defense last year with Dareus too. That’s legitimate punk.
It’s NOT legitimate because Cam Newton was paid to play at Auburn
prove it.
August 41 came and went without your “friend at the NCAA” dropping the hammer on Auburn.
Far as I;m concerned you are a liar.
Hoopie,
Everybody swore OJ was guilty too, but he got away with it, did he not?
My source told me that if the key witness (and we all know who that is) in Gadsden would have done the honorable thing, AU and Coach Cheez would have been toast. However, the witness was being pressured & threatened by the same very AU “family” who pretend to be above such reckless behavior. You can rest assured AU is under constant NCAA scrutiny now. Look at some of the legislation being passed after SCam Newton, and look at AU’s 3-star studded recruiting haul this past February.
Clean up your own back yard, stop enabling unethical behavior, and it will all go away
You didn’t whip shyt mutherphucker. You scored two TD’s on a man with a broken shoulder who hid it from the coaches and shouldn’t have been in the game. Not to mention the immaculate roll of Ingrams fumble. As for Aubie and Cam, I can accept that you didn’t pay him. But with the both intricate and bullshyt investigations the NCAA has used to convict other schools, I cannot accept that they took Scums word that he knew nothing of what his father was doing. He knew and you know he knew, and that made him ineligible and makes your NC false. As for your swimming team – how many crystal footballs do they have? How many statues do they have? How many nights have you laid awake relishing their earth shattering victories? Well, considering you’re a Barner maybe I should retract that last question! Bwaa haww haww! RTR!
What has “Scam” Newton been up to? How about returning to Auburn to visit the kids at the school he mentors.
Auburn didn’t pay him. The NCAA, after being prompted by Bammer power brokers and bullied by the outrageous rumors put out by Bama, looked harder at Auburn than most any school anywhere and found ….nada.
So quit whining ..shut up …and get over it you loser. Only a loser would still be whining about something like this after all this time. Oh..and don’t tell me that you are a winner because your football team won. That was the football team and your lying self didn’t have anything to do with it.
http://wp.auburn.edu/auburnmagazine/?p=3171
it doesn’t matter. Bama just won another NC, another top ranked recruiting class, and Auburn just can’t keep up the pace. Getting blown out so much this past season shows how far Auburn has to go, unless they can get lucky and sign another thieving thug like Cam, whose daddy is willing to shop his son around. And now, with Malzahn gone, Auburn will be starting over yet again.
HOOPIE…..YAAAAWN!
Guess what, you white trash Auburn University Loser. All your Podunk fans & alumni were beating their chest tonight over Octavia Spencer, an African-American Auburn grad winning Best Supporting Actress., but guess what loser? She wouldn’t have won the Oscar and the movie would not have been made had it not been for the author of the novel that graduated from GUESS WHERE?? Not Podunk U on the plains. THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA!
As far as SCAM…He was asked to go down there from Gene Cheez Whiz himself as a marketing ploy in recruiting. Cam the Scam and his pimp father can care less about that piece of shot University in Auburn and their phucking bullshyt “Creed.”
42-14…Suck on that you racist bitch
BTW Hoopie,
If your Piece of Shyt self don’t like our warranted attacks on your cultish, Podunk Alma mater, GET OVER IT, LOSER. I don’t peruse The War Eagle Reader to find the latest gossip on my Alma mater. Then again, little brother is always trying to be like Big Brother