Keeping up with team personnel in college basketball has become a difficult grind since the NCAA opened up the doors to the transfer portal without restriction. Kentucky is one of the teams to profit from the open transfer pipelines; Auburn, too.
Bruce Pearl relies on four Auburn newcomers—three transfers and one freshman—to do most of the scoring for Auburn. They’re new names to the program, but not new names to Kentucky. Throw in the team’s second-leading scorer from a year ago and Auburn’s top five scorers are names from the past.
Let’s run over who they are as we look ahead to Saturday.