Fifteen years between NCAA Tournament appearances. Sixteen years between Sweet Sixteen trips. One prior Elite Eight visit. One coach hired off the scrap heap following a three-year show cause penalty. The specter of an FBI investigation. Prior to its magical run to the Final Four, those things were just about all anyone knew or needed to know about Auburn’s rather nondescript history as a basketball program.
Bruce Pearl has taken the Auburn program to heights it has not seen before (si.com).Of course, none of that encapsulates just how bad the program was when the controversial Bruce Pearl was hired by [...]
