Episode 553: It Ain't Always Gonna Be Pretty

Justin and Dan look back at Auburn basketball getting a win it absolutely needed against South Carolina behind Filip Jović’s breakout performance, then they talk about the work Alex Golesh and staff are doing in the transfer portal for Auburn football. Topics for this episode include:

* the benefits of winning when a team needs a win

* the conditions that led to Jović’s massive game

* is Auburn’s frosty three-point shooting a concern?

* how elements of Tahaad Pettiford’s game reversed course after the Missouri loss

* Dan’s reasons to believe the team can improve between now and the end of the season

* a brief preview of Ole Miss before Justin heads to Oxford

* a player-by-player breakdown of Auburn’s latest incoming football transfers

* which positions seem to have clear-cut favorites to start and which positions seem to suggest heavy competition

* Scrap joining a long line of great Auburn names

* an update about Troy Women’s Basketball’s quest for the Sun Belt title

* an ode to watching historic sports moments at bars in airports

* a preview of the CFP National Championship Game

* Dan takes victory laps after predicting success for Dylan Cardwell and Fernando Mendoza

* several failed attempts by Dan to give Jović a nickname, including one that causes Justin audible pain

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