Everything Bruce Pearl said after Auburn's dismantling of South Carolina
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Bruce Pearl didn't want to go into too much detail, but he said Auburn is simply a tough matchup for South Carolina. It showed. The Tigers won 86-55 on the heels of winning 101-61 inside Neville in February. "It's about matchups," Pearl said. "I'm not going to tell you why it's a good matchup for us and a bad matchup for them, but it just is. There are things about the way we play and the way they play that just works out. Honestly -- I don't want to dodge the question, but it's just one of those things. South Carolina man-to-man, they are really good. They play hard, they play physical, they play inside-out basketball. We have some size in there -- it made it hard for them to score at the rim." Much more from Pearl inside...