Auburn basketball game tonight: Tigers vs. Ole Miss Prediction, Odds
Auburn basketball is so close to the #1 ranking in the nation it could taste it. But those taste buds could turn sour if the Tigers fall prey in a shocker like the rest of the top six teams in college basketball have this past week.
Ole Miss is no slouch this season, even if Western Kentucky caught them sleeping last month in a 71-48 walloping. They’ve been able to knock off Dayton, Memphis, and Mississippi State and played Tennessee and Marquette close in razor-thin losses.
Kermit Davis was able to sweep Bruce Pearl’s postseason ineligible squad last season on the strength of a pre-Sharife Cooper double-digit win and a thriller at the Auburn Arena that saw Romello White and Devontae Shuler collectively drop 56 for the Rebs.
Davis doesn’t have those scorers this season. Pearl is armed with a freshman sensation paired with four high-impact transfers and a Plains-tenured cast around him.
What happens at the Pavilion in Oxford, Mississippi tonight with the #4 Tigers? Well, Fly War Eagle is taking a look at the Auburn basketball betting lines, odds, and lays a prediction on the line (all lines courtesy of WynnBET Sportsbook):
Ole Miss vs. Auburn basketball Odds, Spread and Total
Spread:
Auburn: -8.5 (-110)
Ole Miss: +8.5 (-110)
Total:
139.5 (Over -105/Under -115)
Ole Miss vs. Auburn Pick and Prediction
The Tigers’ last win was easily the biggest of the season. A fearless team led by Jabari Smith’s 25 points and buoyed late by emergency frontcourt minutes from Dylan Cardwell and Jaylin Williams–and, as usual, with flashy secondary/tertiary scoring from the Wendell Green Jr./K.D. Johnson combo–marched into Coleman Coliseum and Crimson craned in the place of a victory cry.
A sea of orange and blue was present on Tuscaloosa, just as it will be in Oxford. The Auburn family is the magical mystery tour, just without the mystery.
If Bruce Pearl is the coach on the opposing sideline and the year is 2022, you’re getting beat, you’re getting meme blasted afterwards, and the Tigers are covering the spread.
Besides, the AU-Ole Miss series runs in a pair of sweeps, which means the grim reaper(s) are coming to your door this time around, Kermit and co.