AUBURNTIGERS. COM : : Auburn University Official Athletic Site Auburn University Official Athletic Site : : Men's Basketball. Bruce Pearl is a proven winner. He enters his 2. 2nd season in 2. In his 2. 1 years, he has guided his teams to the NCAA Tournament 1. Auburn University Dance ProgramsAnd when he's not winning basketball games, he's winning the hearts of a fan base badly wanting a winner. Pearl is ranked ranked second among active SEC head coaches in career winning percentage (. SEC head coach (. SEC head coach (2. SEC games only winning percentage (. Auburn and Pearl have the No. No. The Tigers are a perfect 1. Pearl at Auburn. Auburn has sold out of season tickets in back- to- back seasons in 2. Pearl, for the first time in school history.
Meet the dedicated directors and staff members of North Alabama Dance Center. Melony League - Melony League is Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Melony has been studying and working in the dance community for the. The University of Georgia is the oldest state-chartered university in the United States. The Official Athletic Site of the Auburn University Football, partner of CBS Sports Digital. The most comprehensive coverage of the Auburn University Tigers on the web. September 12, 2016 - Auburn-LSU will kick at 5 p.m. 24 in Jordan-Hare September. Since Pearl arrived, Auburn leads the SEC with 1. May 2. 01. 4- May 2. APR score. In his first year at Auburn in 2. Pearl turned a struggling program into a must- see commodity. Season tickets sold out as Auburn Arena was filled to 8. Auburn Arena, the third- best total attendance in school history. On the court Pearl's first club went 1. Auburn Family fast. The team started out a blistering 9- 1 at home and capped off the season with a memorable four- day stay at the SEC Tournament, winning three games for the first time since 1. Senior KT Harrell turned in an All- SEC performance throughout the season, finishing the year as the league's leading scorer (1. SEC in field goal percentage (. SEC leader in 3- point field goal percentage (. NCAA) and 3- point field goals made per game (2. NCAA). In 2. 01. 5- 1. Auburn defeated Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Arkansas in the same season. The Tigers defeated No. Kentucky and Alabama in back- to- back games for the first time since 1. Auburn snapped several long losing streaks: 1. Kentucky, 1. 5 games to ranked teams, eight games to Tennessee and eight games to Arkansas. All of this despite Auburn players missing 1. Auburn averaged 8,2. SEC in percent capacity behind Kentucky for the second straight season. The energy in Auburn Arena is worth 1. The Tigers' 1. 7 made 3- pointers were one shy of the school record. Pearl loves to play the top teams in the country. Auburn's non- conference strength of schedule was ranked 2. Auburn. We have a great relationship. He is one of my favorite coaches to play for just because of his energy and passion. I think that was the biggest thing that sold me and why we still have a tight relationship today. When he isn't out buying lunch for students on campus or dropping into Auburn marketing classes, he can be found spreading the word of Auburn basketball at Auburn Alumni events throughout the Southeast. And if he isn't there, there is a good chance he is in the stands supporting one of the other Auburn programs. Pearl and his wife, Brandy, also remain committed to giving back to those in Alabama as the Bruce Pearl Fore the Children Golf Classic has remarkably raised over half a million dollars in its first two years. The mission of Children's Harbor is to help children with serious illness and their families. Pearl started AUTLIVE at Auburn in 2. AUTLIVE raises the awareness of cancer prevention and detection while t- shirt sales and donations raise money to benefit cancer patients. He initiated the OUTLIVE program in 2. Tennessee in recognition of former Vol Chris Lofton, who beat testicular cancer through early diagnosis and treatment and went on to play the entire 2. Pearl donated $2. Auburn University comprehensive campaign in September 2. The Bruce Pearl Family Foundation in conjunction with L5 Foundation, an organization dedicated to addressing the essential and basic needs of cancer patients, donated $2. Knoxville in August 2. Camp Koinonia, an outdoor program for children with disabilties. Pearl's 2. 1 years of coaching experience covers four stops. He began his head coaching career with a nine- year stay at Southern Indiana, taking the program to the NCAA Tournament each season, going 2. From there he made the move to Wisconsin- Milwaukee, taking the Panthers to the NIT once and the NCAA Tournament twice, including a 2. Sweet 1. 6 appearance. After compiling an 8. UW- Milwaukee, Tennessee tabbed him as its leader in 2. NCAA Tournament appearances, two Sweet Sixteens (2. Elite Eight, which was the most successful six- year run in Volunteers history. Under Pearl at Tennessee, the Volunteers topped the 2. SEC's winningest program during his six seasons, winning the 2. SEC regular season SEC Championship, the 2. SEC Eastern Division titles and earned the school's first- ever No. From 2. 00. 6- 1. Tennessee went 6. Pearl's preferred style of play, a high- scoring, pressure- type scheme, has proven to be very exciting and very successful throughout the years. His teams have led their conference in scoring 1. His Tennessee squads were the SEC's scoring champion in four of his seasons on Rocky Top, averaging 7. At the Division I level, his teams have topped the 1. NCAA Tournament. In his second year as coach at Southern Indiana the team averaged 1. Twice he has coached the league's leading scorer in UW- Milwaukee's Dylan Page in 2. Tennessee's Chris Lofton in 2. Wayne Chism was Pearl's first marquee signee at Tennessee. The Volunteers went 1. Chism's four- year career, and he walked off the court in 2. Chism also appeared in more NCAA Tournament games and logged more wins in the . Every player that played four years for Pearl at Tennessee earned their college degree. Boasting a . 6. 49 winning percentage over 1. Division I seasons, Pearl has done it against some of the toughest schedules in America. At Auburn and Tennessee, he sought out non- conference matchups with the most prominent teams and players on the collegiate landscape. While coaching at Tennessee, the Volunteers defeated Kevin Durant and Texas, Derrick Rose and Memphis, Greg Monroe and Georgetown, Matt Bouldin and Gonzaga, Sherron Collins and Luke Aldrich of Kansas and Ohio State with National Player of the Year Evan Turner. That's in addition to logging SEC wins against future NBA standouts such as Ronnie Brewer, Glen Davis, Joakim Noah, Rajon Rondo and John Wall. In Pearl's eight years coaching in the SEC, two at Auburn and six at Tennessee, his teams have averaged a phenomenal strength of schedule ranking of 8. Real. Time. RPI. com, including five top six rankings being No. Auburn's strength of schedule was No. Pearl's record is 5- 5 vs. Tennessee's 6. 6- 6. No. 1 Memphis in 2. Playing such a difficult schedule at Tennessee led to an average year- end RPI of 1. NCAA Tournament. Twice Tennessee landed in the top 1. No. 5 after logging a school- record 3. Tennessee's on- court success never came at the expense of academics. Tennessee had 3. 1 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections under Pearl and nine members of the 2. SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition. An ambassador for the university, Pearl's selfless community service work and generous stewardship made him one of the most influential public figures in the states of Alabama and Tennessee. The UT basketball program also earned the UT Men's Community Outreach Team Award twice in his six seasons. Pearl realized a lifelong dream in the summer of 2. Maccabi USA's open men's basketball team at the 1. World Maccabiah Games in Israel. He led the American squad to the gold medal for just the third time in 2. Israel in the title game. The Maccabiah gold marked Pearl's 1. In 2. 0 seasons at the collegiate level, his teams have made a remarkable 1. NCAA Tournament appearances and racked up 2. NCAA Tournament wins. Only four times in 2. Pearl- coached team not led its conference in scoring, and his squads have finished either first or second in their respective leagues an astounding 1. Pearl has garnered six National Coach of the Year awards, and his teams have set school records for wins at three different universities (2. Southern Indiana in 1. UW- Milwaukee in 2. Tennessee in 2. 00. His teams have also won at least 1. Division I head coach. His NCAA Tournament resume is equally as impressive - as he is one of only seven active head coaches who has led his teams to 1. NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances. From 2. 00. 7- 2. Tennessee stood alongside Kansas, Memphis, Michigan State, UNC and Xavier as the only programs in America to reach the Sweet 1. While Pearl often exults that . Watson is one of more than a dozen players Pearl and his staff have developed in NBA contributors. In addition, Tennessee was featured in an ESPN College Game. Day matchup four straight seasons. After 1. 4 seasons seated to the right of Davis, the 3. Pearl embarked on his own head coaching career. But Pearl's first break came during his undergraduate career at BC when Davis offered him a position of student assistant in 1. In 1. 98. 1, the Eagles won the Big East Conference championship and reached the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. The following season, BC advanced to the Elite Eight. When Davis moved on to Stanford in 1. Pearl joined his staff as an assistant coach and then, at the age of 2. Cardinal. While in Palo Alto, Calif., they ended a streak of 2. Stanford basketball. During that time, they recruited four players who were drafted by the NBA, including Todd Lichti, who finished his career as Stanford's all- time leading scorer with 2,3. After four seasons on the West Coast, Pearl followed Davis to Iowa in 1. Over the course of the next six seasons, the Hawkeyes received five NCAA Tournament berths while compiling a 1. In 1. 98. 7, the Hawkeyes recorded a 3. Elite Eight before falling to UNLV. And in 1. 98. 8, Pearl was recognized as one of the top Division I assistants in the country by Basketball Weekly while helping direct the Hawkeyes to the Sweet Sixteen. His six seasons in Iowa City helped produce 1. NBA draft picks for the Hawkeyes, including Brad Lohaus, Kevin Gamble, B. J. Armstrong, Roy Marble and Acie Earl. He believed in me when others did not. I had the pleasure of being by his side for 1. He was a brilliant defensive strategist.
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