Good morning. Life in the SEC is not for the faint of heart. For the third straight game, Auburn is set to face a top-25 opponent. First, it was Georgia. Then it was LSU. Now it’s time to turn the page against No. 13 Ole Miss. A stripe out game at Jordan-Hare? This is gonna be good.

Watch Coach Freeze’s press conference as he previews the Auburn-Ole Miss matchup.

⛹🏾‍♂️ Above The Rim with Chaney Johnson
🏀 Taylen Collins on dunking and more
🐅 And much, much more!

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📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Off The Chaney. As part of the continuing series to highlight fresh faces on the court this season, we’ll take a look at Chaney Johnson, who will be making his debut for the Nov. 1 exhibition game when the Tigers play Auburn University Montgomery. Last year, Johnson faced Auburn in the exhibition game while playing for the University of Alabama Huntsville where he led his former team with 14 points in the exhibition.

Though it wasn’t a regular-season game, he still got the treatment any opposing star would get from The Jungle.

“They were talking a little trash to me,” Johnson said. “But I know they ride for their players, so who wouldn’t want to play for Auburn and play for fans who ride for you and want to see you be the best player you can be?”

Read the rest of the article on Chaney Johnson, including how his biggest growth spurt came after high school, his grassroots approach to landing his Division II hoops opportunity at UAH, and the other schools besides Auburn who had their eyes on this quickly-growing player.

"Since I got here, it’s just been work, work, work. Not only me but as a team. Everybody has been working because we’re trying to achieve greatness this year.”

More headlines brewed up to brighten up your morning ⬇️

🥎 This video will get you pumped up for Auburn softball, and it’s the perfect time, as the team is still undefeated this fall season.

🤸🏻‍♀️ Find out what Auburn gymnasts eat as a mid-meet snack on Mic’d Up Mondays With Sophia.

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🏐 Mark your calendars for this Friday’s Dig Pink game against Missouri.

🔼 She’s Got Hops. Perhaps you’ve seen the season ticket ads on social media channels for Auburn women’s basketball. “Girls can dunk too,” says senior forward Taylen Collins at the end, right after effortlessly flushing a two-hand jam.

And apparently, she’s not the only member of the 2023-24 Tigers who can throw it down.

“We have a couple girls who can get up there,” Collins said. “It’s not just me.”

While the slam dunk hasn’t happened in a game for her just yet, she’s had plenty of other highlights over her first three seasons of college basketball.

A three-year starter at Oklahoma State, Collins announced her transfer to Auburn in the late spring and joined coach Johnnie Harris and the Tigers for summer workouts, along with the team’s trip to Europe in August.

It seemed predestined that she would be a Cowgirl – her father, Terry Collins, was a member of the 1995 Oklahoma State men’s team that went to the Final Four. But it wasn’t just his ties to the OSU program that led her there initially.

“It wasn’t just based off him,” Collins said. “I had built a good relationship with the coaching staff there. It was really about the connections for me. That’s important.”

OSU, however, made a coaching change after her sophomore year, and she entered the transfer portal a year later.

Interestingly enough, she has played in Neville Arena before. Her OSU team visited Auburn two years ago when the Cowgirls took on the Tigers in the 2021 SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Collins had 11 points and eight rebounds in the game, but Auburn came away with a 77-66 victory.

Now, several months into her Auburn career, she has seen the chemistry on the team continue to grow – through summer workouts, the Europe trip, and now three weeks of regular-season practice.

“The competition level is so high in here because you’re just around a bunch of girls who love to compete, and it shows,” Collins said.

As for the stuff shot hype, Collins can’t wait to throw down that first dunk, which would be the first in Auburn history.

“On a fast break,” she said, “where I’m feeling good, the legs are feeling good, it’s going to happen.”

🤔 TIGER TRIVIA

They banned the slam. This isn’t Tiger Trivia, per se, but with the previous mention of dunks, it’s time to dive a bit deeper into the history of the dunk in college basketball.

Did you know that the NCAA banned dunking before the 1967-1968 college season?

Our question today—how many seasons did the dunk ban last?

If you think you know, scroll to the bottom to find out!

🐅 ONE BIG THING

Seeing green. After leading in two tournaments, Auburn men’s golf has what can officially (and unofficially) be called a deep roster.

The team will wrap up their fall slate at the upcoming Cypress Point Classic in Monterey, Ca.

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📅 THE WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday 10/18

🎾 Women’s Tennis @ ITF 80K

Thursday 10/19

🎾 Women’s Tennis @ ITF 80K

⚽️ Soccer @ Florida @ 5:00 p.m. CT

Friday 10/20

🎾 Women’s Tennis @ ITF 80K

🏌️‍♀️ Women’s Golf Stanford Intercollegiate

🐎 Equestrian vs. Georgia @ 3 p.m. CT | Live Results

🏐 Volleyball vs. Missouri @ 6:00 p.m. CT on SEC Network | Live Video 

Saturday 10/21

🎾 Women’s Tennis @ ITF 80K

🏌️‍♀️ Women’s Golf Stanford Intercollegiate

🏈 Football vs. Ole Miss @ 6 p.m. CT

Sunday 10/22

🎾 Women’s Tennis @ ITF 80K

🏌️‍♀️ Women’s Golf Stanford Intercollegiate

🏐 Volleyball vs. South Carolina @ 1:00 p.m. CT on SEC Network | Live Video 

🥎 Softball vs. Gulf Coast State College @ 2 p.m. CST

🥎 Softball vs. Wallace State Community College @ 4:30 p.m. CST

⚽️ Soccer vs. LSU @ 4:00 p.m. CT

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 10 seasons, from 1967 to 1976!

There were two main reasons the NCAA decided to ban the slam at the high school and college level. The first was due to the risk of injuries, and their report cited 1,500 events where a player was hurt around the backboard during the previous year. The other reason was that, in their words, the dunk “was not a skillful shot.”

There was much speculation around that time that the real reason was because of Lew Alcindor, who would later change his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who would regularly dunk over his opponents during his first year in college, which is why the media nicknamed this ban the “Lew Alcindor Rule.”

🐅 Have a great Wednesday, y’all