Dewayne Reed News

The Glenn Wilkes Classic comes to the Ocean Center today to begin a 15-game run over three days featuring 10 NCAA Division I basketball teams.

Tracy Smith's basket with 1.3 seconds remaining lifted N.C. State to a 60-58 victory over Auburn on Sunday night.

Huntington's men's basketball team improved to 7-0 with an 86-62 victory over visiting Saint Francis on Saturday.

DeWayne Reed goes high to match his career-high 24 points DeWayne Reed, Frankie Sullivan and Earnest Ross combined for 60 points and 10 3-pointers to lead Auburn to a bounce-back 80-65 win over IUPUI in the Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach on Saturday night.

The Auburn men's basketball team lost its second game in a row Friday, falling to UCF 84-74 in the first of three games at the Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Yes, Auburn certainly misses the 12-plus points per game Tay Waller typically provided last season.

The forward always seems to have that ho-hum air about him. The slow gait, the sleepy eyes, the gum chomping, the stare that is part blank, part annoyed.

Adam Leonard tallied 14 points and distributed five assists, as the Missouri State Bears topped the Auburn Tigers, 73-62, in the Glenn Wilkes Classic at JQH Arena.

Fresh off a pair of one-sided exhibition wins, the Missouri State Bears kick off their 2009-10 regular season at 7:05 p.m. Monday against Southeastern Conference foe Auburn at JQH Arena.

Onterio McCalebb carries the ball earlier this season against Tennessee. Freshman running back Onterio McCalebb is fully dressed out and going through warmups prior to Auburn's game against Georgia, but it's still not clear if he'll play.

AUBURN -- Jeff Lebo has been struggling with depth for years. That's no longer an issue at Auburn.

Auburn coach Jeff Lebo has praised Niagara so robustly leading up to tonight's season opener that he might as well be a publicist for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference school.

Guard Tay Waller says he liked watching Auburn's newcomers play their first college basketball game Friday night.

The coaches didn't repeat the cold shoulder the media gave to Tasmin Mitchell. The LSU senior was a unanimous pick on the first team of the coaches preseason All-Southeastern Conference team released Monday.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Kenny Gabriel, a 6-8 forward who signed with Auburn out of high school but spent last season at Paris Junior College, has the best opportunity to make an early impression.

Kentucky has been picked as the preseason favorite to win the Southeastern Conference men's basketball championship.

The LSU men's basketball Tigers are picked fourth in the Western Division, but received one of the first place votes Monday in the annual pre-media day voting by a select panel of both Southeastern Conference and national media members.

Auburn made a big jump last season with a 10-6 SEC record and second-place finish in the Western Division.

A surprisingly strong finish followed by the harsh realities of NCAA Tournament qualification have given the Auburn basketball team a bit of an edge heading into the 2009-10 season.

Jeff Lebo congratulates his team after a game last year. Basketball season is just around the corner.