Auburn entered the Semifinals of the SEC Tournament as favorites, something the Tigers hadn’t experienced in this portion of the tournament in 2 decades. Auburn made the semifinals in 2015 after winning 3 games in 3 days but fell to the Kentucky Wildcats in this round ending the feel good story of the 2015 SEC Tournament.
Auburn was looking to advance to the SEC Title Game for the first time since 2000 and faced a Florida team fresh off of knocking off LSU, the regular season champions.
As we saw so many times throughout the year, Anfernee McLemore got things started knocking down a 3-pointer to put Auburn on the board.