We are set to speak with Bruce Pearl as the No. 11 Tigers travel to Houston to take on the No. 4 Cougars on Saturday night.
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*** This game begins the beginning of four of what could be six games of non-conference against top 14 teams.
*** Houston is well coached. Kelvin Sampson teams have played the same way for a long time. Great defense. Physical. Rebounding well. Play as a team and a culture there for sure. Bring almost everybody back except one player from last year.
*** We are obviously going to get exposed. Mentions that whoever wins the rebounding battle will matter.
*** Could be first to 50 game.
*** One thing he absolutely loved from last night: "I don't think we could have shot it any better." Mentions Chaney, CBM and Miles all had hot runs where they made incredible shots.
*** Dylan was great defensively. Johni was great offensively and played unselfishly. Knew he would be double teamed and was excited to get the ball to others.
*** Also thought they played hard for 40 minutes and defended hard without fouling.
*** Houston blitzes ball screens, putting two on the ball. Really brilliant ball screen defensive team.
*** Your traditional 4-man will have trouble against Houston because of their gigantic 4-man.
*** Mentions that people that follow him on Twitter are glad it's basketball season after being asked about the election being over.
*** "What opponent that we will play on a neutral site will be more difficult than playing at Houston, at Duke or at Alabama? I can't think of one."
*** Mentions that Auburn will have thousands of fans at the Houston game. Says it being a bye week for football was a great coincidence.
*** On Chaney getting bigger? "When we watch Chaney from last year early on, it's like 'Who is that skinny kid?'" Says he has done a great job with the training staff. "He's our hardest worker."
*** On balancing focusing on Vermont vs. preparing for Houston? "During the course of the summer we went over every non-conference opponent for a few days."
*** Says Vermont beating UAB made it more difficult for the Catamounts to sneak up on Auburn.
That's it for BP!
