College and Magnolia · Mar 10, 2019
About Last Night: Auburn 84, Tennessee 80
Auburn did something yesterday that hasn’t happened in 24 years.
Tony Barbee didn’t do it.
Jeff Lebo didn’t do it.
You have to go back to Cliff Ellis’ first season on the Plains to find the last time that the Tigers beat a top five opponent.
It was January 24th, 1995, that Auburn beat #5 Arkansas 104-90 at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum. It speaks volumes that the Tigers haven’t had too many opportunities over the last two and a half decades to notch another win over a highly-ranked team of that caliber, but Bruce Pearl’s bunch finally did it yesterday in the final regular season game of the year.