Bruce Pearl

Auburn: basketball signs nation’s No. 2 ranked class

AUBURN, Ala. (auburntigers.com) – Auburn Basketball has signed the No. 2 ranked recruiting class in the nation in consensus five-star Austin Wiley, a 6-foot-11, 255-pound center from Hoover, Ala., and Conrad Academy (Fla.); four-star Davion Mitchell, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound guard from Hinesville, Ga., and Liberty County High School; and four-star Chuma Okeke, a 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward from Atlanta, Ga., and…

Malzahn and Pearl pledge $500k to scholarship campaign

AUBURN, Ala. (auburntigers.com) – Auburn University head football coach Gus Malzahn and head men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl have come together to pledge $500,000 toward the campus-wide Because This is Auburn comprehensive campaign. Both coaches have structured their gifts to create two endowed scholarships for first-generation students, which will be appropriately named the Gus and Kristi Malzahn Endowed Scholarship for…

Auburn’s Bruce Pearl on passing of Pat Summitt

On what the biggest thing was he learned from Pat Summitt… “Pat Summitt saw things in people that they did not see in themselves. Pat Summitt never apologized to any one of her players for expecting the most out of them, demanding it and getting it. She was a great friend. She was as loyal as they came. If you…