Perhaps the only major knock on Bruce Pearl’s Auburn basketball team has been their inability to show up on the road. There is no doubting their rank among the sport’s elite, but the one thing that has plagued the Tigers even before this year was poor road play.
Typically, fans that haven’t followed the program in-depth would be more likely to pinpoint a symptom of the struggles, such as poor shooting from beyond the arc rather than the over-all issue. It hadn’t escaped Pearl and it was obvious that he had the Tigers prepared to play in a tough road environment Wednesday in College Station, Texas.