AUBURN - Auburn's basketball team will play 11 games against 2009 postseason teams in the coming season. The scheduled was released Monday.
The games against postseason team include home games against SEC Champion LSU, Kentucky, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Niagara and Alabama State. Other home games are against Virginia, Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia and Arkansas, as well as a road game at 2009 NCAA Tournament participant Florida State, a neutral site game against North Carolina State in the Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach, Fla., and a game at Missouri State also highlight the schedule.
The Tigers final season opener in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum is Nov. 13 against Niagara, which loses only one player from last season*s NIT team that won 26 games. In addition, all 16 of Auburn's SEC regular season games as well as the SEC Tournament games will be televised.
"We have a very demanding schedule this year with three ACC teams on it and a couple of good road games," Auburn coach Jeff Lebo said. "We have a return game at Missouri State, and we will play in Huntsville. A couple of years ago, we wanted to play in different parts of the state, so we have been to Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile and now we are going to be up in Huntsville. That will be great for our Auburn fans in that area and in northern Alabama.
"We play at Florida State, which went to the NCAA Tournament,
North Carolina State and Virginia in Auburn. We have a good mixture of
some high level teams."
The schedule (all times central)
Nov. 6 Miles College (exh.), 7 pm
Nov. 13 (1) Niagara, 8:30 pm
Nov. 16 at Missouri State, 7:05 pm
Nov. 20 (2) Central Florida, 5 pm
Nov. 21 (2) IUPUI, 5 pm
Nov. 22 (2) North Carolina State, 7:15 pm
Nov. 25 High Point, 6 pm
Dec. 1 (3) at Alabama A&M, TBA
Dec. 4 Troy, 7 pm
Dec. 7 Virginia, 7 pm
Dec. 17 at Florida State, TBA
Dec. 20 Sam Houston State, 1 pm
Dec. 22 Alabama State, 7 pm
Dec. 29 Charleston Southern, 7 pm
Jan. 2 Georgia Southern, 1 pm
Jan. 5 West Georgia, 7 pm
Jan. 9 South Carolina (SEC Net), 12:30 pm
Jan. 14 at Tennessee (ESPN/2, ESPN360), 6 pm
Jan. 16 Kentucky (SEC Net), 3 pm
Jan. 20 at LSU (SEC Net), 7 pm
Jan. 23 at Vanderbilt (SEC Net), 12:30 pm
Jan. 28 Ole Miss (ESPNU), 6 pm
Jan. 30 Alabama (SEC Net), 3 pm
Feb. 6 at Arkansas (SEC Net), 12:30 pm
Feb. 10 Georgia (CSS), 8 pm
Feb. 13 at Mississippi State (FSN), 6 pm
Feb. 18 at Florida (ESPN/2, ESPN360), 6 pm
Feb. 20 Arkansas (FSN), 6 pm
Feb. 24 at Ole Miss (SEC Net), 7 pm
Feb. 27 LSU (FSN), 6 pm
Mar. 3 Mississippi State (SEC Net), 7 pm
Mar. 6 at Alabama (SEC Net), 12:30 pm
Mar. 11-14 (4) SEC Tournament (SEC Net/ABC), TBA
(1) Glenn Wilkes Classic (Auburn, AL)
(2) Glenn Wilkes Classic (Dayton Beach, FL)
(3) Huntsville, AL (Von Braun Center)
(4) Nashville, TN (Sommet Center)
* All Times Central
