Butch Thompson and Bruce Pearl, True Auburn Men

Bruce Pearl and Butch Thompson both took their teams to the highest level of competition in their respective sports and did it in extremely similar fashion like true Auburn men.

Bruce Pearl faced the beginning of this last basketball season with uncertainty. Preseason polls ranked Auburn number 11, but forward Anfernee McLemore was returning from a torn ACL, Austin Wiley and Danjel Purifoy were coming off the bench after sitting out a year from NCAA sanctions, and J’von McCormick was added into the mix.

With the help of veteran leadership in talented seniors Malik Dunbar, Horace Spencer, and Bryce Brown and NBA caliber talents like Jared Harper and Chuma Okeke, Bruce Pearl and his Auburn team…