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Auburn Basketball vs. Alabama: Stream, injury report, broadcast info for Saturday's game in Neville Arena

Taylor Jones

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Auburn plays Alabama on Saturday afternoon, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place.

The Auburn Tigers look to extend its two-game winning streak on Saturday afternoon against their rivals from across the state, No. 3 Alabama. The task will be a tall one, as Auburn has lost two games in a row, and Alabama enters the game with a 12-0 record against SEC teams.

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Auburn has lost three out of four games, but head coach Bruce Pearl says that he is not in “panic mode” and is pleased with the way that his team has played recently despite the losses.

“We’ve lost three out of the last four, but the losses at West Virginia and at Tennessee and at Texas A&M — three hard places to play where we put ourselves in position to have a chance to win. I don’t know how many teams could do that, and these guys have been able to do that just because they’ve been grinding,”  Pearl said. “Even though the competition is getting better, we’ve also gotten better — just not enough to win.”

Below, you will find all of the information you need for Saturday’s game in Auburn, including a how-to-watch guide, an injury report, and a projected starting five.

Here’s when you should tune in to see the game:

• Date: Saturday, Feb. 11
• Time: 1 p.m. CT
• TV Channel: ESPN (Dan Schulman, Jay Bilas, Holly Rowe)
• Live Stream: fuboTV (watch here)
• Radio: Auburn Sports Network (Andy Burcham, Sonny Smith, Brad Law)

AUBURN
Chance Westry	Knee	Out for the season
ALABAMA
Noah Clowney	Face	Questionable for Saturday’s game

AUBURN

• Johni Broome
• Wendell Green Jr.
• Jaylin Williams

ALABAMA

• Brandon Miller
• Mark Sears
• Jaden Bradley

AUBURN

G	Wendell Green Jr.
G	Zep Jasper
G	Allen Flanigan
F	Jaylin Williams
F	Johni Broome

ALABAMA

G	Jaden Bradley
G	Mark Sears
F	Noah Clowney
F	Brandon Miller
C	Charles Bediako

Alabama leads the all-time series, 99-65

Alabama is 33-28 in games played in Auburn

Auburn has won two straight games in the series

LAST FIVE PLAYED IN AUBURN

Feb. 1, 2022	Auburn 100 Alabama 81
Jan. 9, 2021	Alabama 94 Auburn 90
Feb. 12, 2020	Auburn 95 Alabama 91
Feb. 2, 2019	Auburn 84 Alabama 63
Feb. 21, 2018	Auburn 90 Alabama 71

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Rivalry matchup, AUTLIVE program, Gameday set for a busy Saturday at Neville Arena

Mark Murphy

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AUBURN, Alabama–Auburn will face a Top 25 ranked opponent for just the third time this basketball season when the Tigers take on the visiting Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday at Neville Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. CST and the game will be televised on ESPN.

Additionally, Auburn will be the host of this week’s ESPN College Gameday television show from 10-11 a.m. and it will be the basketball program’s annual AUTLIVE fundraiser to provide money for in-state cancer prevention and treatment programs. Prostate cancer screenings will take place on the concourse of Neville Arena before and during the game for men who would like to be tested.

Coach Bruce Pearl’s Tigers are expected to be tested in a major way with Alabama arriving with a No. 3 nationally ranking built on the strength of an 11-0 SEC record and a 21-3 overall mark. The Tide is the highest ranked opponent Auburn has played at home since Pearl took over as head coach.

The last time Auburn played the third-ranked team in the country was on March 29, 2019 at Kansas City in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 round. The Tigers dominated North Carolina that day, winning 97-80.

Auburn goes into Saturday’s contest after losing its previous two games at Tennessee last Saturday and at Texas A&M?on Tuesday. Tennessee was ranked No. 2 nationally when it edged the Tigers 46-43. Auburn was ranked 13th when it defeated the visiting Razorbacks 72-59 at Neville Arena on January 7th.

The Tigers, who are 17-7 overall and 7-4 in the SEC, were ranked throughout the season until this week’s poll.

Pearl says that his players will be challenged by Alabama’s offense, which is averaging an SEC-high 83.7 points per game. One of the coach’s keys to success is “guarding them, and guarding them in transition.”

The last time Alabama played at Neville Arena the Tigers won 100-81. Pearl predicted that Saturday’s game will like be high scoring. “They play really fast”?he pointed out. “It will be up-tempo. It will be an exciting game because (of) the pace that both teams like to play at.”

Auburn’s coach is encouraging fans who are at Neville Arena to purchase a T-shirt to support the AUTLIVE program, which provided $250,000 of support to cancer patients and their families in the state of Alabama in 2022. Pearl said those funds helped save lives and said that men getting screened on Saturday for prostrate cancer can save lives, too.

“Once again, this year thanks to Mike Slive’s foundation, we are going to do prostate cancer screenings for gentleman 40 years or older,” Pearl said. “The way to outlive cancers is to detect it early, the way to detect early is to know at what times in your life you're supposed to get your prostate checked or your colon checked or women got to have their mammograms or you have got to do your blood work.

“Or, you've to pay attention to that rash or whatever it is because if you detect cancer early, you'll die of something else,” said Pearl, who added that it is exciting to the ESPN Gameday at Neville Arena again this year. Auburn and Duke are the only two programs chosen to be hosts for Gameday in each of the show’s most recent three seasons.

Pearl said Gameday decided to visit Auburn on Saturday because Alabama is playing very well and the energy Auburn’s fans provide. “The Jungle and Neville arena is as good as an environment as there is in college basketball,” the coach said. “That's why they are here. What kind of a statement does it make about our program when we've been able to get College Game Day here on our campus three years in a row?”

Auburn junior center Dylan Cardwell said he is looking forward to playing in a rivalry game as well as being a part of the fundraiser event. “Learning about people's stories through AUTLIVE, I have got to see what people have been dealing with off the court.

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“I didn't know that my assistant coach Wes Flanigan had cancer until the AUTLIVE game last year,” Cardwell pointed out about the coach who dealt with cancer, which temporarily sidelined Flanigan when he was a star player at Auburn.

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