Gators to Finish Regular Season at Home vs. Auburn
The Gators will host Auburn on Sunday afternoon and close out their 2023-24 regular season schedule. Tip-off is set for noon and all action will be on SECN.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -Florida will close out their regular season at home Sunday afternoon against Auburn. The game will be the last contest before the Gators head to Greenville, South Carolina for the post-season SEC tournament.
The Gators are coming off a tough 76-73 road loss against Alabama, while Auburn most recently defeated Mississippi State 77-60. The contest between Florida and Auburn will mark both team’s sixteenth and final conference matchup before post-season play unfolds.
AUBURN (18-10, 7-8 SEC):
* Date: Sunday, Mar. 3
* Time: 12 p.m.
* Site: Exactech Arena
* Stream: SECN<https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/b7ee1b75-62dd-4f5e-afa9-c57cacc9aac2>
* Radio: ESPN Gainesville 98.1 FM / 850 AM<https://floridagators.com/watch/?Live=5284>
* Stats: StatBroadcast<https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=490554>
* Tickets<https://am.ticketmaster.com/gators/ism/V0IyMzEz>
THE SERIES:
The current series between Florida and Auburn is in favor of Auburn at 30-24. Florida dropped the last matchup against Auburn 66-55 in January of 2023 and is hoping to break the Tigers’ one-game win streak and notch a victory on their side of the record.
HISTORY:
Florida and Auburn have met a recorded 54 times in their respective school histories. The most recent matchup was on Jan. 30, 2023, with the Gators falling 66-55 in Neville Arena. In the 2023 matchup, Florida shot 45.5 percent from the three, securing 10 three-pointers. Leilani Correa<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/leilani-correa/16027> led the Gators on offense with 16 points and Faith Dut<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/faith-dut/16028> grabbed seven rebounds to lead Florida on the boards.
FLORIDA’S LAST GAME:
Florida’s last time out was on Thursday, falling 76-73 on the road to Alabama. The Gators were led on offense by Leilani Correa<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/leilani-correa/16027> with a 22-point outing. Correa went 8-of-15 from the field, 5-of-7 from the charity stripe, and recorded one steal for the Gators. Aliyah Matharu<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/aliyah-matharu/16030> followed with 16 points for the Gators, and Zippy Broughton<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/zippy-broughton/16025> notched another double-digit outing with 12 points. Broughton was hot from the three on Thursday evening, going four for four from the three-point line to garner a perfect percentage. Defensively, Eriny Kindred<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/eriny-kindred/16214> led the way for Florida with a career-high 10 rebounds.
ABOUT AUBURN:
Overall Auburn is led in scoring by Honesty Scott-Grayson with an average of 18.4 points per game. Honesty is currently ranked second in the SEC for scoring in all games and is second to Leilani Correa<https://floridagators.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/leilani-correa/16027> in scoring for conference play with a 20.73 average. Scott-Grayson is also the only Tiger averaging double-figures for scoring and has accumulated over double the amount of points this season (496) in comparison to Auburn’s second-highest scorer, JaMya Mingo-Young with 231 (9.2 ppg).
Defensively, the Tigers are led by Taylen Collins averaging 6.5 rebounds a game. Collins also leads Auburn with a season total of 47 steals, and 19 blocks. Collins is currently fourteenth in the league with an average of 1.68 steals and is eighth in the SEC with 81 offensive rebounds this season.
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