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CBB : Teaser Line Matchup
Sunday 3/18/2018Line$ LineOU LineScore
CLEMSON
 
AUBURN
+2  

-2  
+105

-125

146
 
84
Final
53

CLEMSON (24 - 9) vs. AUBURN (26 - 7)
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Sunday, 3/18/2018 7:10 PM
NCAA Tournament - Second Round - Viejas Arena - San Diego, CA
Board SideTotal
723CLEMSON+6Over 142
724AUBURN+2Under 150
ADVANCED TEAM STATS
CLEMSON - Current Season Performance
 Straight UpAgainst SpreadTeamOpponent
 W-LUnitsW-LO-UScoreHalfFG PctReb.ScoreHalfFG PctReb.
All Games24-9+9.618-1116-1473.534.645.6%35.365.930.841.0%33.4
Road Games9-8+1.58-811-670.533.645.4%33.769.632.842.8%33.2
Last 5 Games3-2+0.94-13-271.034.044.1%34.866.430.839.8%33.8
CLEMSON Team Statistics
 Shooting    3pt ShootingFree Throws Rebounding 
 PPGHalfFGM-APctFGM-APCTFTM-APctTotOffAstPFStlTOBk
Team Stats (All Games)73.534.626-5645.6%8-2236.8%14-1975.7%35813166125
vs opponents surrendering71.133.225-5943.2%8-2234.6%13-1871.4%34913186133
Team Stats (Road Games)70.533.625-5545.4%8-2235.4%13-1775.9%34612175124
Stats Against (All Games)65.930.824-5841.0%8-2135.5%11-1670.1%33811176124
vs opponents averaging75.135.427-5945.3%8-2235.8%14-1971.6%36914176124
Stats Against (Road Games)69.632.825-5842.8%9-2238.8%11-1768.0%33813166103

AUBURN - Current Season Performance
 Straight UpAgainst SpreadTeamOpponent
 W-LUnitsW-LO-UScoreHalfFG PctReb.ScoreHalfFG PctReb.
All Games26-7+818-1214-1682.739.543.7%38.172.834.642.6%35.0
Road Games11-6+0.49-87-1077.236.640.5%38.373.834.443.5%36.8
Last 5 Games2-3-2.80-51-470.433.436.9%36.674.435.645.7%39.0
AUBURN Team Statistics
 Shooting    3pt ShootingFree Throws Rebounding 
 PPGHalfFGM-APctFGM-APCTFTM-APctTotOffAstPFStlTOBk
Team Stats (All Games)82.739.527-6243.7%10-2736.2%19-2577.3%381114208125
vs opponents surrendering71.533.525-5842.9%8-2234.3%14-2071.2%35913196134
Team Stats (Road Games)77.236.625-6240.5%9-2632.7%19-2575.4%381112217125
Stats Against (All Games)72.834.625-5842.6%8-2335.0%16-2272.2%35913216153
vs opponents averaging7434.726-5844.8%8-2234.9%15-2171.0%36914186134
Stats Against (Road Games)73.834.424-5643.5%8-2335.4%17-2470.6%37913216164
Average power rating of opponents played: CLEMSON 80.8,  AUBURN 79.5
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
CLEMSON - Season Results
 Team StatsOpp Stats
DateOpponentScoreSULineATSTot.O/UShotsPctREBTOShotsPctREBTO
1/28/2018@ GEORGIA TECH72-70W-2.5L127.5O28-6245.2%33725-5248.1%289
1/30/2018N CAROLINA82-78W2W145O24-6139.3%361028-6245.2%4011
2/3/2018@ WAKE FOREST75-67W-3W141.5O24-5642.9%37823-5939.0%348
2/8/2018PITTSBURGH72-48W-18.5W132U27-5945.8%35818-4639.1%2815
2/14/2018@ FLORIDA ST79-81L4.5W146O28-6145.9%322132-6152.5%3317
2/18/2018DUKE57-66L2.5L146U21-6134.4%381319-4938.8%3711
2/21/2018@ VIRGINIA TECH58-65L4.5L141.5U22-5738.6%371120-5834.5%365
2/24/2018GEORGIA TECH75-67W-10L126O23-4748.9%301024-6139.3%3313
2/28/2018FLORIDA ST76-63W-3W145U23-5740.4%39921-5042.0%3012
3/3/2018@ SYRACUSE52-55L0L124U18-4540.0%331216-5330.2%367
3/8/2018*BOSTON COLLEGE90-82W-5W140O29-6246.8%39724-5940.7%339
3/9/2018*VIRGINIA58-64L7.5W114O17-4934.7%321328-6046.7%378
3/16/2018*NEW MEXICO ST79-68W-3.5W133O33-5955.9%31824-6238.7%3311
3/18/2018*AUBURN              

AUBURN - Season Results
 Team StatsOpp Stats
DateOpponentScoreSULineATSTot.O/UShotsPctREBTOShotsPctREBTO
1/27/2018LSU95-70W-10.5W158O33-6154.1%381725-5843.1%2416
1/30/2018@ OLE MISS79-70W-4.5W160U26-6738.8%421125-6141.0%4117
2/3/2018VANDERBILT93-81W-11.5W153.5O32-5756.1%251228-5352.8%2816
2/7/2018TEXAS A&M80-81L-6L154O26-5052.0%221433-6154.1%3316
2/10/2018@ GEORGIA78-61W-3.5W142.5U29-5750.9%31922-4944.9%2713
2/14/2018KENTUCKY76-66W-9W156.5U22-6036.7%34725-5446.3%3614
2/17/2018@ S CAROLINA75-84L-7L147.5O20-6331.7%441625-5843.1%3815
2/21/2018ALABAMA90-71W-6.5W151.5O29-6842.6%41924-5246.2%3517
2/24/2018@ FLORIDA66-72L1.5L157U25-5644.6%411626-5944.1%318
2/27/2018@ ARKANSAS82-91L-1L161.5O22-6434.4%371131-5952.5%3911
3/3/2018S CAROLINA79-70W-11L152U22-5738.6%361223-6137.7%4120
3/9/2018*ALABAMA63-81L-6.5L152U20-6232.3%331026-5250.0%4415
3/16/2018*COLL OF CHARLESTON62-58W-9.5L148U21-5935.6%361223-5145.1%4021
3/18/2018*CLEMSON              
KEY GAME INFORMATION
CLEMSON: Last season: 17-16, sixth straight season without an NCAA Tournament appearance.
Who's gone: G Jaron Blossomgame (senior), G Avry Holmes (senior), F-C Sidy Djitte (senior).
Who's back: F Donte Grantham. The senior struggled some last year and hopes to rebound after his scoring average dropped from double digits as a sophomore to seven points. F Elijah Thomas. The Texas A&M transfer played the second half of the season after sitting out and averaged seven points and four rebounds. G Shelton Mitchell, a Vanderbilt transfer who is the team's top returning scorer at more than 10 points a game, but bothered by a knee problem. G Marcquise Reed is a Robert Morris transfer who averaged 10 points a game in his first season at Clemson.
Who's new: F David Skara. A junior who transferred from Valparaiso and has won praise from Brownell as Clemson's best defender. F Mark Donnal. A Michigan graduate transfer, Donnal helped the Wolverines to the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons. F Aamir Simms. A freshman from Palmyra, Virginia is 6-7 expected to give the Tigers a reliable dual-threat inside and out.
The Skinny: Brad Brownell has held on to his job because he's a strong ambassador for the program and instrumental in the refurbished Littlejohn Coliseum that opened last year. He knows the pressure to make the NCAAs is there and needs to have a healthy Mitchell at point guard to make that happen.
AUBURN: Last season: 18-14, lost to Missouri in first round of SEC tournament
Who's gone: G T.J. Dunans (8.2 ppg, 2nd in assists); G Ronnie Johnson (7.8 ppg, 3rd in assists).
Who's back: G Mustapha Heron led team in scoring (15.2 ppg) and rebounding (6.1 rpg) last season; F Danjel Purifoy averaged 11.5 points and led team with 59 3-pointers; C Austin Wiley (8.8 ppg, 4.7 rpg); G Jared Harper (11.4 ppg, team-high 95 assists).
Who's new: G Davion Mitchell is a four-star prospect and strong defender at the point. F Chuma Okeke, another four-star signee, averaged a double-double in points and rebounds during a four-game Italy tour.
The Skinny: The Tigers appeared poised to make a run at their first NCAA Tournament since 2003, but open with a cloud of uncertainty instead. Associate head coach Chuck Person has been arrested in a federal investigation for allegedly accepting bribes to steer Auburn pro prospects to a financial advisor after college. Part of that money allegedly went to families of two recruits, possibly leaving them ineligible. Auburn and investigators haven't disclosed the players' identity.
PREVIEW
Tigers will win when Auburn meets Clemson
 

SAN DIEGO -- The way Auburn coach Bruce Pearl sees it, this NCAA Tournament appearance is not only about his team but also about the SEC.

"You know, we are really proud of SEC basketball right now," Pearl said after a harrowing 62-58 victory over the College of Charleston in a Midwest Region game that was not decided until the final three seconds Friday.

"I've been in this league for 10 years. It's never been stronger, and we feel the responsibility ... winning the regular season championship, to represent our conference. So maybe we are putting a little too much pressure on our kids."

Fourth-seeded Auburn (26-7) will meet No. 5 seed Clemson (24-9) in a battle of Tigers that shapes up as a duel of perimeter threats at the Viejas Arena in San Diego on Sunday for a berth in the Sweet 16 in Omaha, Neb., on March 23.

Like SEC regular-season co-champion Auburn, Clemson knows a little something about conference quality and March success. Clemson tied for third in the ACC while wining a school record 11 conference games in a league that had two No. 1 seeds and a No. 2 in the NCAA Tournament.

The ACC placed nine in the NCAAs and the SEC had eight, and the SEC had the edge after going 6-2 in the first two full days of the tournament. The ACC was 6-4 including Syracuse's play-in victory Tuesday despite the historic loss by No. 1 overall tournament seed Virginia to Maryland-Baltimore County on Friday. The leagues split the first two head-to-head tournament matches, Alabama beating Virginia Tech and Florida State defeating Missouri.

"I know how good Virginia is and it's hard to beat them," Clemson coach Brown Brownell after a 79-68 victory over New Mexico State on Friday, "but I also think it's another example of (how) college basketball has changed in terms of the landscape of talent.

"There are more better players than ever, and the difference between 1s (seed) and 16s has narrowed just like with 2s and 15s and 3s and 14s and all that. I don't think there is a big difference between 5s and 12s, 6s and 13s. I just don't think there is a difference anymore."

Auburn and Clemson were chic picks to be upset in the first round, but only Auburn had much trouble.

Point guard Jared Harper's 3-pointer, his only field goal of the game, broke a tie with 59 seconds remaining as Auburn moved on while shooting 35.6 percent from the floor and making 15-of-32 free throws. Mitigating that, Auburn forced Charleston into a season-high 21 turnovers, about double its average.

Harper made a free throw with three seconds to go for the final point, although the NCAA put out a statement Saturday saying that Chuma Okeke, not Harper, should have been at the line after catching Grant Riller's air-ball 3-point attempt before passing off.

"After the foul the ref pointed at me to go to the line, so I stepped up and went to the line. Simple as that," said Harper, an 82.2 percent free throw shooter.

Auburn was in the double bonus, and the call would have mattered only if Okeke had missed both free throws with a 61-58 lead. Okeke is a 68.6 percent foul shooter.

Auburn has won eight straight NCAA openers, tied with Syracuse for the fourth-longest streak. Only North Carolina (16), Kansas (11) and Gonzaga (10) have more. Guard Mustapha Heron, who led Auburn with 16 points against the College of Charleston, will become the fifth player in school history with 1,000 points in two seasons.

Both teams lost a big man to injury during conference play, and both have persevered with strong guard play.

Clemson guards Gabe DeVoe, Marcquise Reed and Shelton Mitchell controlled the victory over New Mexico State, combining for 60 points on 25-of-42 shooting from the field. Mitchell had 23 points and two 3-pointers and DeVoe had 22 points and two 3s.

"Our guys have been through a lot this year," Brownell said. "There has been a lot on our guys, Gabe and Shelton and Marcquise. They have had to shoulder the load in a lot of situations. They can play. If we just give them space and tell them to make plays. It's as simple as that."

The winner will extend what already has been an extraordinary season. Auburn won 21 of its first 23 and peaked at No. 8 in the AP Top 25 while making its first NCAA tourney since 2003.

Clemson reached No. 11 after winning 20 of its first 24, including a victory over North Carolina, and received its first NCAA bid since 2011.

The fact that some "experts" picked Clemson to lose its first game was talked about among the team earlier in the week, Brownell said, "but it's not like some big chip on our shoulder, underdog.

"We talked about at the beginning of the season that we not didn't concern ourselves with being picked 13th in our league and nobody believes in us because none of that really matters.

"It doesn't matter in these games if you go in as a coach and give them the Knute Rockne speech and tell them all that. Three minutes into the game it's all about making plays."


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