Episode 929: Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl

Coach Bruce Pearl returns to the "Marching to Madness" college basketball podcast as you see him live on the left screen and my background on the right is coach Pearl working a game on the sidelines. Auburn won its second SEC Tournament in the last five seasons with wins over NCAAT participants South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Florida. Auburn has seen five 20-win seasons in Pearl's tenure while going 25-6 in the 2020 season that saw the tournaments interrupted by COVID. In addition, he took Tennessee to the NCAA Tournament in all six seasons he was there and had the Milwaukee Panthers on the NCAA brackets in two of his four years and he took them to the Sweet 16 in his fourth and final season before he came to Knoxville. Topics include: The Tigers cutting the nets in Nashville with that second NCAA Tournament title in five years Return of Johni Broome, Chad Baker-Mazara, Denver Jones, Dylan Cardwell Tigers in the transfer portal with 5-star Tahaad Pettiford as a key point guard The continual depth in SEC Basketball