On April 6, 2013, the Auburn men’s basketball team was looking for answers after recording its lowest win total in 24 seasons. One year later, the Tigers were three weeks into the Bruce Pearl era with dreams of building a program that could compete with the blue bloods of college basketball.

Fast forward five more years and Auburn has not only competed with those programs, but the Tigers have beaten them and could be playing for a national championship. On April 6, 2019, Auburn will be competing in a national semifinal for the first time in the program’s history.