By Jeff Shearer
AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. - While reporters at SEC Media Day picked Auburn to finish ninth in the conference and one pundit famously forecast a 4-14 season, John Pudner saw something else.
“That this Auburn team was maybe the deepest in the country,” said Pudner, whose Value Add Basketball website projected Auburn as No. 11 nationally in September.
“It didn’t have a great player. It had a team of incredibly good players,” he said. “We assign a point value per player, and when you add them all up, they were the 11th best team in the country before the season started.