Auburn def. Ole Miss (women/SEC Tournament)

Hey everyone. We're LIVE from Alltel Arena in Little Rock, Ark., where your Auburn Tigers are playing Ole Miss in the SEC Tournament.

The team was honored before the game as SEC Champions. They got a trophy and everything.

• FINAL
  Auburn 71, Ole Miss 65. The team's next game comes tomorrow (5:30 p.m. CST) against either Tennessee or Florida.
  
  
• @ :19, 2nd half
  Auburn leads, 70-65. Bonner just stepped to the line and hit a pair of important free throws. Ole Miss has seized command of this game, but the surge is coming a bit too late.
  
  
• FOURTH TO @ 3:42, 2nd half
  Auburn leads, 64-54. The Tigers' starters are still in. It's been an unusual day for Auburn. Smalley is 2-of-9 from the perimeter. Hobbs is 1-of-9 overall. Bonner and Boddie have taken on larger-than-normal scoring responsibilities and that hasn't been a problem. Against a better opponent, though, this could have been a terminal situation.
  
  
• THIRD TO @ 11:37, 2nd half
  Auburn leads, 53-40. Nell Fortner now appears ready to rest her starters. Boddie is out. The Tigers are just messing around now. Seems like the margin is larger than 13, but Ole Miss has taken advantage of some recent sloppiness.
  
  
• BONNER IN THE BOOKS
  With a mid-range jumper moments ago, Bonner now is Auburn's all-time leading scorer. As of this moment, she has 2,070 points.
  
  
• FIRST TO @ 17:00, 2nd half
  Auburn leads, 42-29. The Tigers are on a 7-0 run to open the second half. Auburn is pushing the tempo, as they probably should have been doing all along, and their opponent can't keep up.
  
  
• HALFTIME NUMBERS
  Shooting
  AUB -- 13-31 42%
  OLE -- 11-29 38%
  
  3 Shooting
  AUB -- 3-9 33%
  OLE -- 1-6 17%
  
  FT Shooting
  AUB -- 6-14 43%
  OLE -- 6-10 60%
  
  Rebounding
  AUB -- 19 (7o, 12d)
  OLE -- 19 (6o, 13d)
  
  Fast Break Points
  AUB -- 9
  OLE -- 0
  

Here is your Auburn contingent cheering late in the first half.

• HALFTIME
  Auburn 35, Ole Miss 29.
  
  
• FOURTH TO @ 3:59, 1st half
  Auburn leads, 27-25. It's been a funky strech here lately. DeWanna Bonner appears reborn as a mid-range jump shooter. That's not her game. On the other end, UM's big center, Shawn Goff, is going off. She's currently 6-for-8 with 17 points. I've told you this before -- Auburn's big weakness is that it cannot guard powerful centers. This has been proven time and again.
  
  
• THIRD TO @ 7:48, 1st half
  Auburn leads, 23-15. The Tigers want Smalley to be the sharpshooter, but it's just not happening. She's now 2-for-6 from the perimeter. She airballed the last shot. The two before that were way off.
  
  
• SECOND TO @ 11:51, 1st half
  Auburn leads, 16-8. The Tigers still are pushing the tempo. I've been impressed with how aggressive Ole Miss has been with their offensive rebounding. They're getting a lot of second shots. They'll start falling at some point.
  
  
• FIRST TO @ 15:37, 1st half
  Auburn leads, 10-4. The Tigers have a massive advantage here in terms of transition. Boddie is so thoughtful and quick with the ball in transition. UM's Kayla Melson, a Sidney Lanier High grad, can stay with Boddie. It doesn't appear that her teammates can handle their assignments in transition. Look for Auburn to crank this one to 11. (Spinal Tap reference)
  
  
• OLE MISS TO @ 17:32, 1st half
  Auburn leads, 10-2. The Tigers have scored on four consecutive possessions. They've been very easy baskets, too.
  
  
• YOUR AUBURN STARTERS
  PG -- Whitney Boddie
  SG -- Alli Smalley
  SF -- Sherell Hobbs
  PF -- DeWanna Bonner
  C -- Trevesha Jackson