Auburn, Coach Bruce Pearl Agree to New 5-year Contract
Auburn and basketball coach Bruce Pearl have agreed to a new five-year contract.
The deal announced Friday runs through the 2023-24 season. Auburn didn’t release terms.
Pearl led the Tigers to their first Final Four and a Southeastern Conference Tournament title last season, turning around a program that went 15 years without making the NCAA Tournament.
Auburn also won a share of the SEC regular season title in 2017-18. Things haven’t gone as smoothly off the court.
Pearl was hired near the end of a show cause penalty after running afoul of the NCAA at Tennessee. Assistant coach Ira Bowman was indefinitely suspended before the SEC Tournament for alleged involvement in a bribery scheme while at Penn. Auburn fired another top assistant Chuck Person last year after his arrest as part of a federal probe into corruption in college basketball.
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