{"id":1184068,"date":"2026-03-17T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184068"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:11:52","slug":"south-alabamas-season-ends-auburn-rolls-on-in-nit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/south-alabamas-season-ends-auburn-rolls-on-in-nit\/","title":{"rendered":"South Alabama\u2019s Season Ends, Auburn Rolls On In NIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Auburn topped South Alabama 78-67 on Tuesday night in Neville Arena. It brought an end to South Alabama\u2019s season and advanced Auburn to the NIT\u2019s Round of 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Kevin Overton poured in 7 3-point makes in the second half of the game tallying 21 points on the night. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Jags were led in scoring by Sun Belt Player of The Year, Chaze Harris who scored 29 of South Alabama\u2019s 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Both teams were without notable forwards in the matchup. With Keshawn Murphy being AWOL from the Tigers. Keshawn Murphy is out of eligibility so it is unclear as to why Murphy did not participate and will not be a part of the Tigers for their NIT run. On the other side, South Alabama was without their second leading scorer Adam Olsen. Olsen was in street clothes with a cited \u201clower leg\u201d injury. With eligibility remaining, there is speculation that Olsen will enter the NCAA transfer portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">South Alabama jumped out to a halftime lead of 36-30. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The Jags defense fell apart in the second half and USA was out scored 48 to 31 in the second half of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">South Alabama finishes the season 21-12. That makes back to back seasons of 21 wins for Richie Riley and the Jaguars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Auburn improves to 18-16 on the year and will face Seattle in the second round of the NIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Auburn topped South Alabama 78-67 on Tuesday night in Neville Arena. It brought an end to South Alabama\u2019s season and advanced Auburn to the NIT\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/south-alabamas-season-ends-auburn-rolls-on-in-nit\/\" title=\"South Alabama\u2019s Season Ends, Auburn Rolls On In NIT\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4876,"featured_media":1184019,"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":[121,145,147,33,451,151,420,176],"tags":[339,350,1266,1267,173,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-au-basketball","8":"category-auburn","9":"category-featured-news","10":"category-sec","11":"category-south-alabama-2","12":"category-south-alabama","13":"category-sun-belt","14":"category-top","15":"tag-auburn","16":"tag-auburn-basketball","17":"tag-basketball","18":"tag-nit","19":"tag-south-alabama","20":"tag-south-alabama-basketball"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260225_200606-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184068","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\/4876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184069,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184068\/revisions\/1184069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}