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Auburn Faces Tough Path as #1 Seed in South Region
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3/17/2025
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Auburn very deserving of that number one overall seed. They
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are the one seed in the South region. Let's take a look at the
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bracket up there DRS as you look at the top half of where
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Auburn is in the South region. Frankly, I don't think the
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committee did the number one overall seed. Many, many favors
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up there you see a Louisville team, the ACC tournament title
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runner ups on the eight line seems like they were under
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seated and undervalued a Creighton team that finished
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runner up in the Big East tournament, a Michigan team that
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won the Big 10 tourney in Indianapolis, and a team that I
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have been in love with all year the champions out of the Big
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West, a 30 win basketball team, and Eric Owens, Triton's from
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UC San Diego to me, a difficult path for Auburn at the top of
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that South region.
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It is but it's doable to me because I take a look and say to
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myself, all right, you can start to knock some things down. How
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good is Creighton actually as a team? We're gonna find out in
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that eight nine battle, but also Louisville and the strength of
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the ACC. Are we giving them a little bit too much credit for
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having a great season where not that many teams which included
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Clemson, Louisville and Duke and everybody else in the ACC but
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understand this too. I think you're catching a little bit of
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break on the bottom of the bracket if you're Auburn, because
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Iowa State was one of those teams I really wanted to measure
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up by saying great guard play, great defense, tough conference
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let me go. Now we're hearing there are some injury issues
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with Iowa State, which sort of knocks them down a peg for me.
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I love Michigan State. I've said this before. They are tournament
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bound and they are a tournament team. And what I mean by that is
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not over relying on a three point shot, great head coach
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that knows how to get you in and out of timeouts to get the right
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play call and also playing great defense. And if you don't rely
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on the three point shot, you score inside. If your three
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point shot goes out, hey, we're only made two. Well, we usually
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make four a game. It's not that big of a deal. We usually make
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nine or 10 of those. So I do think that is an advantage for
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Auburn because you're not getting a team that's overhyped
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and over talented on the bottom side, you get a clean effort at
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a Michigan State. But for me, I look at Auburn's path and say, I
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believe it is doable. Because again, with Michigan, how good
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is Michigan? Is it the team that we saw running the table in
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the Big 10 in the championship? Or is it the same team, Ben, that
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we saw during the regular season, beatable on a night to
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night basis? We're not downplaying Michigan as a bad
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basketball team. But for me, I don't look at Auburn and be
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like, oh, no, I don't think they can get through the red because
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I haven't played Creighton and technically beating Michigan on
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the way to playing Michigan State in the Elite Eight before
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the Final Four. It's doable for them. I don't look at this and
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say this is a detriment to where they put them from the seed.
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