The Auburn basketball team is the No. 1 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. This comes despite Auburn losing to Tennessee on Saturday in the SEC Tournament semifinals. Still, the Tigers finished the year with a 28-5 record with the only losses coming against Duke,

The top-seeded Tigers will face No. 16 seed Alabama State on Thursday at 1:50 p.m. CT in Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. The Hornets earned the right to face Auburn by defeating St. Francis on Tuesday, 70-68. Alabama State secured the win thanks to an Amarr Knight layup with 0:01 remaining in the game.

The Auburn Tigers struggles down the stretch of the basketball season have not gone unnoticed. The discourse around Bruce Pearl's team has largely centered around the fact it has lost three of four games heading into the NCAA Tournament,

The Tigers won't know who they're facing until Tuesday night, when Alabama State and Saint Francis tip off at 5:40 p.m. in Dayton, Ohio. It's one of four "First Four" matchups that'll take place between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Auburn might be the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA men's basketball bracket, but the Tigers fell another place in the Associated Press' Top 25 poll. Florida leapfrogged Auburn for third place after winning the SEC tournament Sunday in Nashville,

Johni Broome is the second player in program history to repeat as an All-American in back-to-back seasons next to Chuck Person in 1984-85 and 1985-86.

Auburn fifth-year senior along with Duke's first-year star were unanimously picked for the Associated Press All-American team Tuesday.

Johni Broome of Auburn and Cooper Flagg of Duke are unanimous first-team selections for The Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team.