Auburn vs. Indiana: How to watch, live stream, start time, TV channel
AUBURN — Auburn (5-2, 0-0 SEC) goes up against one of the most storied programs in college basketball as it faces Indiana (7-1, 2-0 Big Ten) in a marquee matchup on the hardwood Saturday afternoon at State Farm Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.
The game will tipoff at 1 pm CT on ESPN. If you want to watch on Fubo, click the link below to learn more.
T-Rank analytics give Auburn a 67 percent chance to win, with a projected score of 75-70.
Bruce Pearl called the Hoosiers a “blue blood” program earlier this week. The Hoosiers rank 10th all-time in college basketball wins (1,912), despite some recent struggles, having made the NCAA Tournament only twice in the last seven seasons. Auburn (1,442 all-time wins) has made five NCAA Tournaments during that time period, with two regular season conference titles, a conference tournament title and a Final Four appearance. Indiana’s last Final Four is 2002.
Auburn has won three straight over Big Ten opponents, with wins over Nebraska, Northwestern and Iowa in the last two seasons.
Auburn game notes
Broome has led Auburn with back-to-back double-double performances against Virginia Tech in the inaugural ACC/SEC Challenge and Appalachian State. He poured in a game-high 21 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks against the Mountaineers. It was Broome’s second-straight double-double after a dominate 30-point, 13-rebound performance in Tigers’ victory over the Hokies.
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The junior big man has recorded four double-doubles on the season and 50 for his career. The App State game was the second time in his career Broome has posted consecutive games of 20 points and 10 rebounds and the first time since the 2021-22 season when he scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds at ETSU and followed that up with 20 points and 12 rebounds at Xavier, while playing for Morehead State.
This is only the second all-time meeting between the Tigers and Hoosiers. In both programs’ last outing, top-seeded IU defeated eighth-seeded Auburn, 107-90, in Indianapolis in the second round of the 1987 NCAA Tournament on the way to winning the national championship title.
This is Bruce Pearl’s first-ever meeting versus an Indiana squad in his head coaching career. His prior meetings with the Hoosiers was as an assistant coach under Dr. Tom Davis at Iowa from 1986-1992. Pearl also coached alongside Tim Knight, oldest son of the late IU legend Bobby Knight, while on Davis’ staff at Stanford from 1982-86.
Auburn is 2-1 all-time in Holiday Hoopsgiving games. The Tigers beat Memphis, 74-71, in 2020 and Nebraska, 99-68, in 2021. Last season, Memphis bested AU, 82-73, at State Farm Arena.
This will be the largest crowd Auburn will play in front at State Farm Arena in a Holiday Hoopsgiving game. More than 11,000+ tickets have been sold in the 16,600 capacity venue – a mixture of Auburn “Road Witnesses” and Indiana Hoosiers fans.
The Tigers are 3-1 all-time against the Big Ten Conference in the Bruce Pearl Era (2014-Present), but 8-1 all-time versus the current configuration of the league.
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Auburn has scored a season-high 42 points in the paint the last two games against Virginia Tech and Appalachian State combined. The Tigers have also scored 40+ points in the paint in three-straight games after totaling 40 paint points against Alabama A&M on No. 21.
Over that stretch, AU has averaged 41.3 points in the paint per game. For the season, the Tigers are averaging 37.7 points per game in the paint, which is 48.0 percent of the team’s total points.
The Tigers have outscored their opponent in the paint in 6-of-7 games this season and were even with St. Bonaventure in paint points. Auburn is plus-68 (9.7 ppg) on points in the paint for the season.
Auburn is fifth in the SEC averaging 78.6 points per game this season. Nine Tigers have scored in double figures in at least one game this season.
Some Indiana notes
Indiana is led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Watch List member Kel’el Ware, who is averaging 17.1 points per game and shooting 63.9 percent from the floor (ranks 27th nationally in field-goal percentage) and 9.4 rebounds per game.
Indiana is currently ranked No. 21 in the country shooting 50.4 from the floor, while Auburn is No. 15 nationally holding opponents to a 37.3 field-goal percentage.
The Hoosiers are off to a 2-0 Big Ten Conference start having beaten Maryland, 65-63, in their league opener on Dec. 1 and Michigan, 78-75, four days later in Ann Arbor, Mich.
