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Stadium: Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum
Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum is a 10,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Auburn, Alabama. The arena opened in 1969. It is home to the Auburn University Tigers men's and women's basketball teams and women's gymnastics team. The building's exterior is primarily nondescript concrete, but its entry plaza is recognizable for the large "War Eagle" statue which also faces not only the rest of the university, but also nearby Jordan-Hare Stadium. A new arena is currently in the planning stages.
Team History:
Auburn joined the SEC as a charter member, when the league was established in December 1932, after the 13 members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the thirteen charter members have remained in the conference since its inception: the Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt. Arkansas and South Carolina later joined in the early 1990s.
Teams play a 16-game conference schedule, facing each team from its own division twice and each team from the opposite division once. Prior to expansion, teams played a double round-robin, leading to an exhausting 18-game conference schedule. Since the league slate was trimmed to 16 games, only Kentucky has gone undefeated in SEC play in 1996 and 2003.
Season Preview:
Last season, only one team beat national champion Florida. Only two teams beat Sugar Bowl champion LSU, and one of them was Florida.
The other factor in that equation was an Auburn team that finished 11-2 and ranked No. 8 in the final coaches' poll. Yet for all that success, the Tigers seemed to spend little time celebrating those big wins and more time focusing on home losses to Arkansas and Georgia.
"We were good enough to compete with anybody, but we just weren't quite good enough to get over the top in those two losses," Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville said. "We had to play about as good we could play every week. We did that most of the time. In two games we didn't.''
Official Site:
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