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ok goau and jj? in the seventies i took copies of top secret docs from our communications outfit directly to our crisis center without having to sign anything. and i would sometimes get more copies of documents than i needed so we had a special bin we discarded them in so they could be destroyed. but unless my memory is playing tricks when someone received top secret intelligence did they not have to sign for it? and it is weird some top secret stuff had to be signed for and some did not and i cannot remember why. that was a fun job as we were involved in just about anything that went on around the world. the bad part was i worked directly for the chief of naval operations so we had to be in our dress uni's and spit shinned. no civilian clothes were allowed on duty. and to this day as another aside i have never seen so many drop dead gorgeous women in one place in my life.

Trump Org. Slapped With Maximum Fine for Tax Fraud Scheme Ryan Bort 3–4 minutes trump organization - Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images The Trump Organization was ordered to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for perpetrating a tax fraud scheme in which top executives were given an array of under-the-table perks. The fine comes after the former president’s companies were convicted of 17 charges related to the scheme last month, and just days after longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in prison for failing to pay taxes on the apartment, cars, school tuition, and other goodies the company hooked him up with. More from Rolling Stone Biden Just Played Right Into Trump's Hands Oh Look, Republicans Suddenly Care About Classified Documents Trump's Money Man Gets Five Months in Prison for Tax Fraud Scheme The $1.6 million fine was the maximum punishment the company could have received, which is practically pocket change for the Trump Organization. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday called for the bar to be raised for lawbreaking companies. “I want to be very clear, we don’t think that is enough,” he told reporters outside the courtroom. “Our laws in this state need to change in order to capture this type of decade-plus systemic, egregious fraud.” Bragg made sure not to minimize the significance of the conviction. “This conviction was consequential, the first time ever for criminal conviction of former President Trump’s companies, and indeed I would go so far as to say the first time ever for any former president certainly in my lifetime,” he added. Trump himself was not charged in the scheme, although prosecutors argued that he “explicitly sanctioned” it. Weisselberg, whose guilty plea required him to “testify truthfully,” told the court the untaxed rent he received from the Trump Organization was “authorized” by Trump. The fine levied on Friday brings an end to what prosecutors alleged was a 15-year scheme in which executives like Weisselberg saw the company illegally pay for everything from their rent, to their parking, to their children’s school tuition. Bragg’s office is still looking into the Trump Organization, however, which will continue to operate — albeit with the albatross of a criminal conviction — despite last month’s verdict. There’s also the $250 million lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against Trump in September, which also seeks to ban him from doing business in the state. The Trump Organization has 14 days to pay the $1.6 million fine handed down on Friday.

um what type am i? lol

i wanted to add i used to have a locked briefcase entrusted to me when i had to deliver sensitive docs to admirals and such.

yes i understand jj i just worded it wrong. i can remember being shocked the feds came around my neighborhood and other areas of my life and i cam away clean. i have no idea what has happened to me since jj.

Biden Just Played Right Into Trump’s Hands Patrick Reis 5–6 minutes President Biden Welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio To The White House - Credit: Getty Images The White House said Saturday that President Joe Biden’s aides had found more classified information stored at his private residence. It is inopportune timing for the president: His team said on Thursday that only one classified page had been found there. Now, it’s up to six. For an administration whose FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over improper storage of sensitive government materials, it’s a bad look to be having your own issues with improper storage of sensitive government materials. The government has a system for storing sensitive documents, and “Don’t worry gang, it’s my home office,” isn’t part of it. (Especially not when there were secret documents also found at the Penn Biden Center, a Biden-affiliated think tank.) More from Rolling Stone Oh Look, Republicans Suddenly Care About Classified Documents Trump Org. Slapped With Maximum Fine for Tax Fraud Scheme Merrick Garland Names Special Counsel to Investigate Biden's Classified Docs There are political issues here, but let’s get the facts as we know them straight first. Biden’s team has found government documents in places where they shouldn’t be, copped to its mistakes, and handed the material back over to authorities. Biden is now facing a special counsel investigation, and he’s planning to cooperate with it. Trump knowingly took documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and sat on them. After the FBI found them, he claimed he was the victim of a “Deep State” plot and that he could declassify documents telepathically. And in the aftermath, rather than cooperating, he told his legal team to get “my” documents back, Rolling Stone reported in August. In summary, though Trump and Biden both have improperly stored documents, Trump’s malfeasance is, so far, orders of magnitude greater. That’s both a fact, and a truly terrible political argument. If “they both had scandals, but some are worse” were an effective argument, Hillary “Emails” Clinton would not have lost to Donald “Self-Described Serial Sexual Assaulter and Prodigious Liar on All Fronts” Trump. And indeed, Trump’s most effective argument throughout his political career has been whataboutism, where he defends his own behavior by pointing out his critics corresponding flaws, regardless of the difference in scope. Trump’s defense of deeply inhuman border policies was that the Obama-Biden administration had its own, less humane treatment of those seeking help on the southern border. Trump’s charity work is a farce and fraud? Well, have you heard of the Clinton Global Initiative??? Oh, Trump used high office as a perpetual front of self-enrichment? Well, let me tell you about a little guy named Hunter Biden. And on, and on, and on. There is, to widely varying degrees, truth to all of those arguments. (The Obama administration’s treatment of migrants was a moral stain, and one in which Biden is complicit.) But in every case, it’s clear that Trump went well above and well beyond. In a better world, one with a media landscape that had the credibility to hold politicians of all stripes accountable for their bull****, and one in which the citizenry was ready to scrutinize both the politicians from their party and from the other one, this sort of argument would flop. But none of that is true in this world, and so Candidate “Me Too” Trump won the White House to become President “But Also You Too” Trump. And as an ex-president, his successful use of that tactic is all of our loss. Biden’s campaign for president had two major goals: The first was to pass some progressive policy, stopping a country that keeps voting left from getting relentlessly wrenched right by conservative zealots. It’s not going flawlessly, but on that front, the president has made headway. The second goal, however, was the one he was most vocal and unequivocal about. Biden wanted to undo the damage Trump had done to our institutions and reset norms to the point where people of both political parties would condemn horrible actions — anything, say, from mocking a physically disabled reporter to attempting to overturn a legitimate election to stay in power. And on that goal, Biden is having zero success. That’s not all or even mostly his fault: The GOP is in Trump’s thrall and has no interest in getting out. But it’s a big problem if you’d like to have a functional democracy, or even live in any sort of shared reality. And that’s why a few lousy pages of improperly stored documents are going to matter. It’s going to be one more opportunity for the GOP to normalize Trump — and the things Trump does that threaten our country.

the rules will never apply to any president like they do to you and i. it is not fair but it is what it is. they read the riot act to me scared me so bad i made sure i never ever screwed up. or let the coffee pots go dry...........

you and i have been in the military. i was awarded a top secret security clearance while stationed at the pentagon. i like biden but if you or i had done that we would probably be busting up rocks at some military prison. maybe they give some leeway to presidents. the difference between biden and trump is trunp was told to bring back docs and he did not in fact send them all back.

i am so shocked we agree on anything i am gonna bake you a cake you will love. can you trust me? grins

lets hear what you really think about the donald there killer.

come on suga let me in dang it. it was cold outside and me popsicle froze.have a heart bro. i could use a good breakfast as well. i would make it up to you. wink wink.............grins

Trump said he 'can't think of any complaints' when asked if he ever forcibly kissed a woman; 26 have accused him of sexual assault Laura Italiano,Ashley Collman 3–4 minutes E. Jean Carroll (left) and former President Donald Trump (right).Getty/Getty Excerpts of Trump's deposition were released Friday in author E. Jean Carroll's defamation case. Asked by Carroll's lawyer if he ever forcibly kissed a woman, Trump said he "can't think of any complaints." At least 26 women have accused Trump of sexual assaults dating back to the 1970s; he has denied them all. Donald Trump was asked by a lawyer for rape accuser E. Jean Carroll if he'd ever forcibly kissed a woman, according to newly unsealed court documents. The former president said he was unaware of any "complaints," according to newly-released excerpts from his deposition in Carroll's ongoing defamation lawsuit. The answer was surprising because at least 26 women have accused Trump of sexually assaulting him in alleged attacks going back to the 1970s. Trump was also caught on the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape bragging about grabbing and kissing women without their consent. Trump has repeatedly denied any accusations of sexual assault, calling Carroll and others liars; he has brushed off the Access Hollywood tape as "locker room banter." "Have you ever kissed a woman without her consent?" Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, asked Trump during the October 19 sworn deposition, which he taped from Mar-a-Lago. "Well, I don't — I can't think of any complaints," Trump answered, according to the transcript unsealed Friday. "But no. I mean, I don't think so," he said. Then he added, "I think it's an inappropriate question, but I don't think so." An excerpt from Donald Trump's October, 2022 deposition in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.Insider Carroll sued Trump in federal court in Manhattan in November 2019, after he publicly denied her accusation that he'd raped her, calling her a liar and saying she was "not my type." A federal appeals court in DC weighing if Carroll's lawsuit can proceed. The longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine had come forward earlier that year with a memoir and a front-page New York magazine story alleging that Trump, who'd recognized her from her television appearances, had chatted her up at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-90s. He forced himself on her in a dressing room, she alleges. While she never told the police about the incident, she did immediately tell friends. Carroll's legal team has requested a sample of Trump's DNA in hopes of comparing it to a sample from the dress Carroll says she wore that day. Carroll filed a second lawsuit against Trump in November, adding an accusation of battery under New York's new Adult Survivors Act. Trump's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Read the original article on Business Insider

i would not be upset if they shot trump in a firing squad.

slim pickings today. i will check around later to see if anything was added.

Auburn and 2024 QB Adrian Posse part ways Christian Clemente 3–4 minutes Auburn and Hugh Freeze will look elsewhere for a quarterback in the Class of 2024. Adrian Posse, who committed to Bryan Harsin and the previous staff during Big Cat Weekend, has backed off his commitment to Auburn. Since Freeze was hired, Auburn has offered other quarterbacks and expressed interest elsewhere. "I want to give a special thanks to Coach Bryan Harsin, Coach Eric Kiesau and Coach Roc Bellantoni as well as Auburn University for all they have done for me," Posse wrote on Twitter. "However, after thorough and careful consideration with my family, I have decided to decommit from Auburn and reopen my recruitment." After starting his high school career at Miami Christian (Fla.), Posse transferred to Monsignor Page. During Posse's junior season, he started at Miami Columbus in the spring. Shortly ahead of the season he transferred to Miami Edison, not playing, and transferring to Mater Academy to close out the season. In the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, Posse is a 4-star and is the No. 186 overall player and No. 15 quarterback. 247Sports has Posse as a 3-star and the No. 29 overall quarterback. Walker White and Texas Tech commit Will Hammond have been offered since Freeze was hired, with Langston Hughes' Air Noland also expected to visit for Junior Day. 16COMMENTS Auburn still holds a commitment from Top247 Moody cornerback A'Mon Lane. 247Sports scouting report on Posse from Andrew Ivins: "A big-framed, pro-style passer that has flashed some arm talent at various points over the years. Has measured over 6-foot-4 and close to 225 pounds. Equipped with big 10-inch hands. Age appropriate for his grade and has sizable varsity experience having played as an eighth grader at Miami Christian before taking over the starting role at Opa Locka Monsignor Pace as a freshman/sophomore and then eventually enrolling at Miami Columbus to close out prep career. Tight 3/4 arm slot allows him to create some velocity and throw a tighter spiral. Has the upper body strength to get the ball outside the hashes, but seems to be at his best when he can set his feet and drive the football towards his target. Not much of a runner, but does have some experience coordinating different RPOs out of a single-back spread attack. However, must improve pocket presence and internal clock as that will likely help cut down on the mistakes, which tend to come in flurries once rattled. Overall, should be viewed as a developmental quarterback prospect with some of the required tools to win games on Saturdays, but one that will need to keep progressing as a decision maker and get better at processing complex defenses, especially if he’s taking snaps in the SEC or Big Ten." ">247Sports

Could Auburn be next season's TCU? Taylor Jones 2–3 minutes The TCU Horned Frogs were the Cinderella story of the 2022 college football season. College football fans found joy watching the Horned Frogs go from a 5-7 record in 2021 to competing for a College Football Playoff national championship one season later. Most of their turnaround is credited to Sonny Dykes, who took over TCU’s football program this season and led them to a semifinal win before losing to Georgia in the College Football Playoff national championship. Buy Tigers Tickets Could Auburn have a similar fate in 2023? College Wires’ regional editor Patrick Conn weighs in. The Tigers, much like TCU, hired a new coach following a 5-7 season. TCU made a magical turnaround in Year 1 under Dykes. With Auburn’s success recruiting, it is possible the Tigers could see a similar rebound in the upcoming season. In a piece titled “Which first-year head coach has best opportunity to mimic TCU?” Conn wrote that Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers have the ability to accomplish the feat. After a tumultuous two-year run at Auburn for Bryan Harsin, new athletic director John Cohen went with a familiar name in Hugh Freeze. The head coach was at Ole Miss when Cohen served as the associate athletic director for their rivals, Mississippi State. While Freeze has a very questionable past, he is viewed as a good offensive mind. He took a transfer from Auburn (Malik Willis) and turned him into an NFL draft pick at quarterback. He has some pieces in place and gave an immediate bump on the recruiting trails. Coaching in the SEC West makes his path to the CFP more difficult, but it is possible if he catches lighting in a bottle. Joining Freeze on the list are Matt Rhule of Nebraska, Deion Sanders of Colorado and Tom Herman of Florida Atlantic.

Auburn football: Former defensive coordinator to step away from coaching Mary Kate Hughes 2–3 minutes Auburn football Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Derek Mason before a college football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys (OSU) and the University of Texas Longhorns at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Oklahoma State won 41-34. osufoot -- print1 For the third year in a row, there have been massive changes made in the Auburn football coaching staff. Following the 2020 season on the Plains, Gus Malzahn was fired, and his staff was sent away in exchange for Bryan Harsin’s first staff on the Plains, with Cadillac Williams being the only Gus-era staffer that was retained. After the 2021 season, which ended in a downward spiral for the Tigers, there was insane turnover to Harsin’s staff, and new coordinators were brought in. Then, Harsin and part of his staff was sent packing mid-season before Hugh Freeze was officially hired in December and began to put together his debut coaching staff. Now, ahead of the 2023 season, the Tigers are on their third set of coordinators in as many years while a face that was once familiar on the Plains has made an announcement similar to one we heard last year. According to Brandon Marcello, former Auburn football defensive coordinator Derek Mason will no longer be coaching: Mason has coached in various positions at over ten schools. Prior to his stint at Auburn, Mason spent 2014-2020 as head coach at Vanderbilt. After one season on the Plains as Bryan Harsin’s defensive coordinator, Mason stepped down from his post with the Tigers, and it was rumored that he intended to step down from coaching indefinitely. Days later, he took the same position at Oklahoma State for a big pay cut. With Hugh Freeze on board at Auburn and Ron Roberts taking over the Tigers’ defense, let’s hope that this set of coaches will stick around for awhile and make a big impact on the program by providing consistency to the student athletes.

Rewinding No. 21 Auburn basketball’s 69-63 win against Mississippi State Updated: Jan. 14, 2023, 9:44 p.m.|Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 7:16 p.m. 6–7 minutes Welcome back to -- the 90s? They’re turned back the clock at Neville Arena, with a throwback 90s night as No. 21 Auburn held off Mississippi State, 69-63, Saturday night. Read more Auburn basketball: Allen Flanigan is back to his old ways, and No. 21 Auburn may need him even more vs. Miss State Auburn basketball to honor Mike Leach before hosting Mississippi State Wendell Green Jr. ‘feeling good’ about his game, and suddenly, so is No. 21 Auburn basketball It was the Tigers third straight win overall since a road loss at Georgia a week and a half ago, and the 28th consecutive win at home for Bruce Pearl’s team, which has the nation’s second-longest active home winning streak (behind only Gonzaga). Jaylin Williams had a season-high 21, while Wendell Green Jr. scored 11 of Auburn’s final 12 points on a night the Tigers set a season-high with 11 made 3-pointers. Below is a blow-by-blow recap from Neville Arena. Stay tuned to al.com/auburnbasketball for full postgame coverage. FINAL: Auburn 69, Mississippi State 63 -- Wendell Green Jr. has scored 11 of Auburn’s last 12 points. Tigers up 69-60 with 25.8 seconds to go. -- Wendell Green Jr. buries a 3-pointer with 2:13 to go, which ends a lengthy drought for Auburn and gives the Tigers a new season-high with 11 made 3-pointers. -- Jaylin Williams fouls out with 2:34 to play. He has 21 points and seven rebounds. -- Auburn 57, Mississippi State 52 (3:38) | Under-4 timeout: Auburn hasn’t scored in 3:13 and has three turnovers during that stretch. Lead is down to five. -- Zep Jasper with a 3-pointer, and Auburn’s lead is back to 10 with 6:47 to play. It’s 57-47, Tigers, who have matched their season-high in made 3-pointer (10). -- Auburn 52, Mississippi State 45 (7:42) | Under-8 timeout: Allen Flanigan with a thunderous dunk in transition to push the lead back to seven after Mississippi State got within five, which was the closest the Bulldogs have been all half. That’s also four straight games in double figures for Flanigan. -- Auburn 47, Mississippi State 35 (11:51) | Under-12 timeout: Auburn is 9-of-19 from deep tonight, its most made 3-pointers in SEC play this season and one shy of the team’s season-high of 10 made triples. -- Auburn 45, Mississippi State 32 (13:10): Jaylin Williams now has 21 points and five made 3-pointers. K.D. Johnson just buried his first 3-pointer since the Georgia game, and Auburn has its largest lead of the night. -- Auburn 37, Mississippi State 28 (15:28) | Under-16: Jaylin Williams with a pumpfake, then a sidestep before draining a 3-pointer, his fourth of the night. Williams has 18 points, approaching his career-high. -- Another tough basket inside through contact for Johni Broome to put Auburn up 34-24. -- Johni Broome with a tough basket inside on the opening possession. He gets fouled, but he misses the free throw. That was the game’s first free-throw attempt. HALFTIME: Auburn 30, Mississippi State 22 -- Allen Flanigan hits a stepback 3-pointer to beat the buzzer at the end of the half. Much-needed basket for Auburn, which made just three of its final 12 shot attempts in the half. Flanigan has eight at the half, while Jaylin Williams has 15. -- Mississippi State did not score over the final 4:04 of the first half, with four turnovers and three missed shots during that stretch. All of the Bulldogs’ first-half points were in the paint. -- Neither team attempted a free throw in the first half. -- Auburn 25, Mississippi State 22 (3:36) | Bulldogs timeout: All of Mississippi State’s points so far have come in the paint, including eight second-chance points on seven offensive rebounds. -- Allen Flanigan drains a corner 3-pointer to snap a 4-minute, 9-second scoring drought for Auburn. It’s 25-18 Tigers. -- Auburn 22, Mississippi State 16 (6:41) | Under-8 timeout: Auburn in the middle of a 2:34 scoring drought after opening up its largest lead of the game at 22-12. Since then, two straight baskets for Mississippi State, which is feasting in the paint. All 16 of the Bulldogs’ points have come in the paint. -- Auburn 15, Mississippi State 8 (11:46) | Under-12 timeout: Jaylin Williams has 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting. His last basket was on a nasty Euro-step drive into a floater. Auburn now 6-of-12 from the field and 3-of-6 from deep, while Mississippi State is shooting just 4-of-11 overall and 0-of-3 from beyond the arc. -- A baby hook and then another 3-pointer, and Jaylin Williams has 11 of Auburn’s first 13 points as the Tigers lead 13-6. Williams finally misses a shot on his fifth attempt (and fourth 3-point attempt). -- Auburn 8, Mississippi State 4 (15:16) | Under-16 timeout: Jaylin Williams with six points early here for Auburn on a pair of made 3-pointers. The last one was a stop-and-pop at the top of the key in transition. He followed it up by drawing a charge on the other end. Auburn is just 3-of-7 from the field early, but Williams is 2-of-2. -- Mississippi State gets on the board first with a Cameron Matthews dunk after Auburn fails to score on its first two possessions of the night, but then Jaylin Williams drills a 3-pointer late in the shot clock to make it 3-2, Tigers. PREGAME -- Auburn lineup: G Wendell Green Jr., G Zep Jasper, F Allen Flanigan, F Jaylin Williams, C Johni Broome -- Mississippi State lineup: G Dashawn Davis, G Eric Reed Jr., F D.J. Jeffries, F Tolu Smith, F Cameron Matthews -- Auburn will be without starting wing Chris Moore, who injured his right shoulder in the opening minutes of Tuesday’s win at Ole Miss. Moore did not participate in pregame shootaround and instead sat on the bench with his right arm still in a sling. AL.com will update this post. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Takeaways from Auburn basketball’s 69-63 win vs Mississippi State Jeremy Robuck ~3 minutes The Auburn Tigers took on the Mississippi State Bulldogs Saturday night in Neville Arena. Auburn showed class with their warmups paying tribute to the late Mike Leach. The Tigers led most of the game. The Bulldogs mounted comebacks toward the end of each half, but ultimately Auburn prevailed in a lively exciting game. Here are a few takeaways from tonight’s game. Jaylin Williams had himself a game Williams scored over 20 points tonight and hit 5 three’s. He was amazing. He was the difference. It was great to watch him display such confidence out there. Williams was the best player on the floor tonight and carried Auburn offensively early. It’s also worth saying that Allen Flanigan had a great night. He hit 2 of his 4 three pointers tonight scoring 10 points. It’s great to see the veterans stepping up and being efficient scorers. Auburn is on a roll at home The Tigers have the nations 2nd longest home winning streak at 28 games. They have not lost at home in over a year. The only team that has a longer streak is Gonzaga. Obviously, the Zags are playing lesser competition in their gym. To be clear, Neville Arena is awesome. It is an intimate environment, and there is not a bad seat in the house. Over one thousand students are right next to the floor. It’s loud. It’s fun. The Tigers also thrive on emotion and are just tough to beat at home. Turnovers are a problem Auburn had 18 turnovers tonight. When the Tigers limit turnovers they usually win the game, but they have been a problem this year. There are nights where Auburn looks out of sync on offense. When this happens, turnovers usually ensue. The Tigers play style is exciting to watch, but wild and free running of the floor can have it’s downsides. Auburn could stand to be more disciplined and mature at times. If they can mature and limit turnovers down the stretch, watch out for them in March.

No. 21 Auburn sets season high from deep, holds off Miss State for 69-63 win Updated: Jan. 14, 2023, 11:02 p.m.|Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 9:50 p.m. 9–11 minutes Auburn’s first and last baskets of the first half against Mississippi State encapsulated the kind of night it was at Neville Arena — in more ways than one. The first make was a Jaylin Williams 3-pointer from the left wing, the last an Allen Flanigan stepback triple from the right wing. Both came with the clock winding down — Williams’ with the shot clock dwindling amid a slow start for the Tigers, Flanigan’s to beat the game clock at the end of the half. It was the kind of tough shot-making the Tigers needed against one of the nation’s stingiest defenses, and it was the kind of perimeter shooting Bruce Pearl’s team has been lacking for much of the season. Read more Auburn basketball: Rewinding Auburn’s 69-63 win against Mississippi State Allen Flanigan is getting back to his old ways Auburn basketball to honor Mike Leach before hosting Mississippi State Both helped contribute to a 69-63 win Saturday night against the Bulldogs, as No. 21 Auburn extended its home winning streak to 28 games while picking up its third straight win in SEC play. “I don’t think I can even begin to explain that (game),” Pearl said. Auburn shot 11-of-25 from deep. That included five made 3-pointers from Williams, who had a season-high 21 points and was one made 3-pointer shy of his career high, while Wendell Green Jr. drained a deep 3-pointer from the top of the arc with 2:13 to go to snap a 4-minute, 38-second scoring drought and give the Tigers a new season-high for makes from deep. Green’s long-range bomb came after the Bulldogs got within four points -- the closest they got in the second half -- and was part of a late surge from the starting point guard, who scored 11 of the Tigers’ final 12 points and helped them stave off the Bulldogs down the stretch while finishing with 17 points. “Mississippi State is so big, so long, so athletic,” Pearl said. “The closer you get to the basket against them, the better you don’t look. So, we had talked a lot about just getting some open shots, and taking those open shots.” It worked out well for Auburn. Here are AL.com’s key takeaways from Saturday’s win, which pushed Auburn to 14-3 overall and 4-1 in SEC play: The Jaylin Williams show After Auburn’s season-ending loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, Pearl spoke about how he wanted to make Jaylin Williams a linchpin of the 2022-23 Tigers. Saturday night against Mississippi State, Williams again showed why. The junior stretch-four turned in his best game of the season, scoring a season-high 21 points while shooting 8-of-15 from the floor, including 5-of-7 from beyond the arc. He added seven rebounds and a pair of assists before fouling out with 2:34 to play and Auburn ahead by five. Williams finished three points—and one made 3-pointer—shy of matching his career high in scoring and made 3-pointers in a game, both of which came against Ole Miss two years ago. “My teammates trust in me,” Williams said. “They always tell me to shoot the ball. Sometimes I take off on some shots and drive, or like. pass it. I mean, but they trusted in me. They kept telling me to shoot the ball. I just continue to shoot, and then it was falling.” Williams stole the show in the first half, when he scored 15 points — a career high for a first half — and added three boards and an assist. In that first half, Williams shot 6-of-9 from the field and 3-of-5 from deep. He opened the game with that 3-pointer to beat the shot clock for Auburn’s first points, and then he made one on a stop-and-pop from the top of the key in transition to give the Tigers an early 8-4 lead. “I told him I was trying to get him the ball,” Green said. “He had my first two assists of the game, so I was just telling him keep shooting. I’ve been telling him that since I met him: ‘We need you to shoot the ball. We need you to play like this. Just open it up for everybody.’ And that’s what he came out and did. I didn’t have the best offensive night. Our other leading scorer, Johni Broome, didn’t have the best offensive night. “Somebody stepping up, and he can do it every night. So (I’m) just telling him to continue today and you can carry us every night for all I care.” It wasn’t just his offense, though. Immediately after that transition 3-pointer, Williams drew a charge on the other end of the court. Still, it was his offense that shined brightest, as he got deep in his bag — 3-pointers, his signature baby hook and even a floater off a mean Euro-step while scoring 12 of Auburn’s first 15 on the night In the second half, he also whipped a no-look pass from the perimeter to Dylan Cardwell in the paint. Cardwell slammed home the dunk to give Auburn a 12-point lead with 12:15 to play. “One of the best games I’ve ever seen him play,” Pearl said. “Everyone will point to the five 3′s but it was as hard and as physical as I’ve ever seen him play. The kid, Cameron Matthews, is one of the biggest, strongest athletes in college basketball. He’s just a monster man, and Jaylin did everything he possibly could physically to keep him at bay and keep him off the glass. If you want to give anybody credit for us winning this game, give it to Jaylin Williams.” A defensive slugfest For as unforgiving as Mississippi State’s defense is — the Bulldogs entered the night eighth in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, according to KenPom — Auburn’s defense showed it can go blow for blow on that end, too. Auburn held Mississippi State to just 63 points, the ninth time the Tigers have held an opponent to 63 points or fewer this season. Mississippi State shot just 37.5 percent overall against Auburn, including a stunning 0-of-18 performance from 3-point range. Mississippi State also went 0-for from deep in last season’s overtime meeting with Auburn. Much of the Bulldogs’ damage came in the paint, where they scored 40 of their points on the night, including all 22 of their points in the first half. Even when the Bulldogs got within five with 9:02 to play, the Tigers didn’t allow another made basket for nearly 2 ½ minutes. That included a possession in which Mississippi State missed three shot attempts — two from beyond the arc — before Auburn corralled the ball, which led to a thunderous transition dunk by Allen Flanigan to push the lead back to seven. Auburn forced 16 turnovers for the game and finished the night with 10 steals, the fifth time the Tigers have had double-digit steals this season and the first time in SEC play. It would have put Mississippi State away wit a bit more ease had it not been for late fouls and turnovers that sent the Bulldogs to the free-throw line down the stretch. Mississippi State attempted 12 free throws over the final 2:34 of the game, making nine of them, while Auburn committed three turnovers in the final 1:14 -- including two on inbound passes after Williams, the usual inbounder for Auburn, fouled out late. After neither team attempted a free throw in the first half, the two sides combined for 41 attempts in the second half, with Mississippi State going 21-of-28 from the line. Fortunately for the Tigers, the Bulldogs also made just one of their last six shot attempts over the final 5 minutes of the game. “I’ve never been in a game where there weren’t any free throws taken in the first half, then the second half, like you said, there’s 41,” Pearl said. “It’s just different. So, we got to do a better job of defending without fouling, and do a better job ourselves being able to get to the foul line.” Another solid night for Allen Flanigan, except in one area Allen Flanigan continued his stretch of impressive play, and it’s safe to say the Tigers’ senior wing is fully back to his old self. Flanigan registered his fourth straight game in double-figure scoring —extending the best stretch of basketball he has had since late in his sophomore season—and once again filled the box score for Auburn. Flanigan finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and three assists. That included his buzzer-beating 3-pointer to close the first half, as well as the aforementioned thunderous dunk in transition that provided an answer after Mississippi State got within five in the second half. Though Flanigan was responsible for seven of Auburn’s 20 turnovers against a pesky Mississippi State defense, his overall performance provided the kind of solid effort the Tigers needed from him on a night that they were without starting wing Chris Moore, who was out due to the right shoulder injury he sustained in the opening minutes of Tuesday’s game at Ole Miss. With Moore sidelined, Flanigan drew his second start of the season—his first since the Colgate game in early December—and followed through in a relatively big way for the Tigers. “It means a lot because Al is a great scorer and he’s a great defender,” Williams said. “I feel like he’s very underrated when it comes to rebounding. He’s very explosive, one of our best athletes. (For) him to come in, accept his role coming off the bench -- well, with Chris (injured) he started tonight, but the past few games. Learning, being in the gym all the time. I mean, this is all on Al. This is the Al I know that plays this well.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

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