{"id":1036369,"date":"2024-01-30T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1036369"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:04:55","slug":"the-auburn-corner-evaluating-where-tigers-are-at-following-tough-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-auburn-corner-evaluating-where-tigers-are-at-following-tough-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Auburn Corner: Evaluating Where Tigers are at Following Tough Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday right here you can read\u00a0<em>The Auburn Corner<\/em>, where we\u2019ll get into a different topic on the Auburn Tigers, break down the previous game, preview the upcoming game, and everything in between. In this week\u2019s edition, after entering the AP top-ten, the Tigers lost back-to-back games last week. Where are they at following the tough week?<\/p>\n<p>Winning on the road in the SEC, and really college basketball in general, is not easy. Following Auburn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/auburn-enters-top-ten-with-alabama-matchup-looming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entry into the top-ten<\/a>, it faced two straight road games and ended up dropping both of them at Alabama and over the weekend at Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a truth coming to light that while the conference is full of good teams, there are very few\u00a0<em>great<\/em> teams with Tennessee, and possibly Kentucky being the exceptions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KenPom<\/a>, which is an analytic and efficiency based rankings system and generally regarded as a more reliable metric than the AP Poll still has the Tigers ranked No. 7 overall in the nation and one spot ahead of Alabama. Tennessee is No. 4 and Kentucky is all the way down at No. 20. The AP Poll dropped Auburn to No. 16 after they were ranked No. 8 last week.<\/p>\n<p>In the week ahead, Auburn has a chance to get back on track as they sit tied for third place in the conference at 5-2, just a game back of Alabama. A get-right opportunity faces them Wednesday night at home against Vanderbilt, while a more tricky matchup awaits Bruce Pearl&#8217;s group on Saturday evening in Oxford at Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, a 2-0 week would go a long way towards keeping on course for the Auburn Tigers in the race for an SEC title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Every Tuesday right here you can read\u00a0The Auburn Corner, where we\u2019ll get into a different topic on the Auburn Tigers, break down the previous game, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-auburn-corner-evaluating-where-tigers-are-at-following-tough-week\/\" title=\"The Auburn Corner: Evaluating Where Tigers are at Following Tough Week\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":938692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,145,147,33],"tags":[350,278,351,1023],"class_list":{"0":"post-1036369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","8":"category-auburn","9":"category-featured-news","10":"category-sec","11":"tag-auburn-basketball","12":"tag-auburn-tigers","13":"tag-sec-basketball","14":"tag-the-auburn-corner"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/10262022-Bruce-Pearl_MBB_ZB109636--scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036371,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036369\/revisions\/1036371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}