Auburn Tigers NCAA Basketball Betting
For the Auburn Tigers, the 2025 Final Four was the best of times and the worst of times. Head coach Bruce Pearl has done the impossible at Auburn. He inherited one of the worst D1 programs in the country and one that was utterly ignored on the home front. Auburn lacked a serious basketball history and was considered to be a coaching graveyard. But Pearl has transformed it into a national power with a large following that boasts two Final Four appearances in his tenure. However, a 79-73 loss to the Florida Gators left War Eagle one game short of a national championship game appearance. Thus, the greatest season in Auburn basketball history ended in tears.
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2025 Auburn Tigers Season Recap
Overall, the Auburn Tigers are 32-5 straight up, 21-16 against the spread, and 21-16 over/under the total. Auburn has national metrics of 10th for scoring offense, 27th for field goal percentage, 46th for 3-point field goal percentage, 112th for free throw percentage, and 63rd for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Auburn is 101st for scoring defense, 38th for field goal percentage permitted, 7th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 67th for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Auburn has covered three of its previous four games and has gone under the total in six of its last seven outings. First among Auburn scores is Johni Broome, with 18.6 points per game.
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 34 points with five 3-pointers, his first consecutive 30-point game this deep in the tourney since Larry Bird. Florida beat Southeastern Conference rival Auburn 79-73 in the Final Four on Saturday night. The Gators are going to the national championship game for the first time since their titles in 2006 and 2007.
“Clayton was the difference. He was just flat out the difference,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said. “We couldn’t contain him down that end.”
Clayton had a driving layup with 2:24 left in the national semifinal on the possession right after Australian big man Alex Condon drew a charge against Johni Broome, the other All-America player in the game, who was dealing with an injured right elbow.
The Tigers, in their second Final Four with Pearl, were the top overall seed and had an eight-point halftime lead.
Florida opened the second half with a 13-3 run, with Clayton capping that with a layup after Rueben Chinyelu’s steal. That put the Gators up 51-49 with 15 1/2 minutes left.
After eight lead changes and six ties in the first 11:02 of the game, Auburn stretched out to as much as a nine-point lead before halftime, and led until Florida ended its big spurt with 11 consecutive points. There were 15 lead changes and 10 ties.
Chad Baker-Mazara, with his left hand partially wrapped because of a thumb issue, led Auburn with 18 points, including four 3-pointers. Broome finished with 15 points on 6-of-14 shooting and had seven rebounds - he had only three points after halftime in the Tigers' second loss to Florida this season.
Even before the final buzzer, Broome was hunched over and surrounded by cameras to capture his reaction. He eventually stood up to shake hands and walked off the court with his eyes red from crying, pulling up his jersey to wipe his face as cameras continued to follow his exit.
Baker-Mazara and Broome both were injured in the Tigers' win over Michigan State last Sunday, which sent them to the Final Four. Broome’s right elbow bent awkwardly during a hard fall in the second half, and in the Final Four, he wore a brace on his arm covered by a sleeve.
“My elbow felt fine going into the game. Obviously, here and there, it bothered me a little bit. But, I mean, nothing that I couldn’t play with,” Broome said. “I feel like we got the looks that we wanted to get. I wasn’t able to capitalize and finish them.”
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Final Four vs. (1) Florida 73–79 |
| 2024 |
Lost First Round vs. (13) Yale 76–78 |
| 2023 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Houston, 64–81 |
| 2022 |
Lost Second Round vs. (10) Miami (FL), 61–79 |
| 2019 |
Lost Final Four vs. (1) Virginia, 62–63 |
| 2018 |
Lost Second Round vs. (5) Clemson, 53–84 |
| 2003 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (3) Syracuse, 78–79 |
| 2000 |
Lost Second Round vs. (2) Iowa State, 60–79 |
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