Overview
- No. 12 seed Auburn (16-15) faces No. 13 seed Mississippi State on Wednesday in Nashville on SEC Network at Bridgestone Arena.
- The first meeting ended 91-85 for the Bulldogs after Hubbard hit a school-record 10 threes and piled up 35 points before halftime on his way to 46.
- Auburn sits squarely on the bubble, projected as the last team in by ESPN and the first team out by Bracket Matrix, with a NET ranking of 40 after dropping eight of its past ten.
- Coach Steven Pearl attributed several of Hubbard’s makes to early coverage mistakes and stressed eliminating clean looks from deep in the rematch.
- Mississippi State arrives on a six-game slide despite Hubbard’s 21- and 42-point finishes to the regular season, and a loss would likely end Auburn’s at-large case.