Pregame Injury Report: Tennessee removes two players, Auburn updates status of Johni Broome
No. 6 Tennessee will have both Igor Milicic and Jordan Gainey available for Saturday night’s game at No. 1 Auburn. Gainey was listed as questionable and Milicic was listed as probable on Friday night, but both were removed on Saturday’s pregame SEC injury report.
Auburn listed center Johni Broome (ankle) as a game-time decision on the pregame injury report after he was listed as questionable Friday night.
Auburn (17-1, 5-0 SEC) and Tennessee (17-2, 4-2) are set for an 8:30 Eastern Time start on ESPN at Neville Arena.
Milicic was a limited participant during Friday’s practice in Knoxville while dealing with a lower-body injury and Gainey missed practice with flu-like symptoms. Gainey went through shootaround at Auburn Saturday afternoon.
Gainey is Tennessee’s third-leading scorer at 11.2 points per game, just ahead of Milicic at 10.3 per game. Milicic is Tennessee’s leading rebounder at 8.4 per game.
Broome has missed the last two games since being injured in the second half at South Carolina on January 11. He leads Auburn in points (17.9 per game), rebounds (10.7), assists (3.2) and minutes (27.4) while shooting 54.7% from the field.
Bruce Pearl on Johni Broome: ‘We’ll just have to see how he does’
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl addressed Broome’s injury during his press conference on Thursday.
“I’ll know more (Friday) and Saturday,” Pearl said, according to Auburn Live. “I don’t know whether he’s questionable or probable, but I do know he’s going to try and move around a little bit today and we’ll just have to see how he does.”
Broome has missed Auburn’s last two games, an 88-66 home win over Mississippi State and a 70-68 road win at Georgia.
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Auburn has won 10 straight games and has been ranked No. 1 the last two weeks, since Tennessee’s loss at Florida, which ended the Vols’ five-week run at No. 1.
Johni Broome had 23 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists at Tennessee last season
Broome had 23 points, nine rebounds and five assists in 33 minutes in Auburn’s 92-84 loss at Tennessee last season.
Broome had 17 points, seven rebounds and four blocks in 32 minutes in a 79-70 win over Tennessee in March 2023, the last time the Vols went to Auburn. He had 11 points, nine rebounds and three blocks in a 46-43 loss at Food City Center in February 2023.
Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said before practice Friday that the preparation for the Tigers wouldn’t change with or without Broome available.
“We’ll prepare (the same),” Barnes said, “because it’s no different going into a game when you might prepare for somebody to get in foul trouble. They’re gone, you got to be ready for who comes in behind them. And so you go about it the same way.”
