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Auburn tops New Mexico 83-78 in Hawaii
The Tigers are 5-3 so far on the year and are coached by Bruce Pearl – which means they have a long, athletic team that will run the floor. Canty hit a 3-pointer that put the Tigers up 60-51 with 9:20 to play. The game stayed tight with the Tigers taking a 32-31 lead into halftime. Bowers who is averaging 12.9 points and 9.9 rebounds in 28.2 minutes per game is a double double machine will have to keep up with the Lobo bigs on the defensive end the best thing to do would to be to attack Bowers as he is not a shot blocker. We got worn out in the second half.
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Auburn never held a lead and was just 7 of 17 on free throws.
“He talked about it so much we had no choice but to come out with energy”, Dunans said. Auburn also had some pretty shots from behind the arc with Kareem Canty, TJ Lang, Bryce Brown, and Jordon Granger hitting threes in the first half. There were seven ties and 13 lead changes in the game. Against a tough competitor like Auburn, Tommy Amaker’s squad can’t afford to leave easy points behind.
Canty rallied Auburn, hitting a 3-pointer for a 58-55 lead. In his second start in four games, Brown played 36 minutes, his most this season, and kept Auburn in the game during the first half.
Auburn forward Tyler Harris (12) shoots a layup while playing against Hawaii in the first half of an …
The Rainbow Warriors got a second straight 30-point game from point guard Roderick Bobbitt as the tournament’s host team ended the game on a 28-7 run after trailing by nine with 9:25 to go.
“It was a gut-check time”, Pearl said on the Auburn post-game radio show. However, Hawaii scored the final eight points. Auburn won both of the first two games against the Rainbow Warriors, most recently in the 2011 Diamond Head Classic.
Harris had his fifth double-double of the season and first since scoring 20 points with 11 rebounds in a 78-71 win over Mercer on December 15. The Warriors took advantage, going 25 of 34 from the foul line, including 19 of 25 in the second half, compared to 9 for 13 for the Tigers. Horace Spencer fouled with 5:29 remaining and Harris fouled out at the 2:03 mark. I do not believe either team is capable of holding the other team’s offense to under 80 points, but the Lobos have proven already this season that they can win in a shootout, ignoring their recent loss to the Rice Owls.
“Harvard played great defense, ” Pearl said. Bowers is averaging 2.3 fouls per game so he is not normally in foul trouble but he may struggle with the quickness of Aget and Williams from the Lobos.
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Auburn will have a few days off before opening the SEC slate against Tennessee at home on January 3.