Heart Breaking News: “I Want An Exit” Auburn Tigers Set To Lose Key Man Due To….

UNDER ARMOUR ATLANTA NOTES AND INTELLIGENCE ON AUBURN RECRUITS AND COMMITS

It was a packed house full of some of the best players in the southeast in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes for the Under Armour Atlanta Next camp on Sunday. And being just over an hour away from Auburn, it was filled with top Tigers targets.

Auburn has dodged a bullet with an injury to one of its best players.

Fifth-year senior forward Jaylin Williams sustained a knee injury in Auburn’s loss to Kentucky, but an MRI on Sunday revealed Williams will not require surgery, and he could return before the end of the regular season. Auburn confirmed in a statement Sunday that Williams’ injury is not season-ending.

With 10:40 left in Auburn’s 70-59 loss to the Wildcats, Williams drove baseline and was down holding his knee after missing a dunk. He had to be helped off into the locker room and did not return.

“If Jaylin’s out, we’re going to have to figure some things out,” Pearl said postgame. “I think we have guys that will step up. But Jaylin Williams is — he and Johni Broome are our two best players. So if he’s out for a little while, it’s got to be next man up. That’s a significant loss.”

Williams is Auburn’s second-leading scorer at 13.4 points per game. He is a career-best season in scoring, field-goal percentage and 3-point shooting.

In his absence, Auburn will likely turn to UAH transfer Chaney Johnson as the starter at the 4. Johnson averages 3.8 points per game this season, playing 14.6 minutes.

Williams’ efficient play and veteran presence will certainly be missed. When he shoots less than 40 percent in a game, Auburn is 2-5 this season. The Tigers are 18-1 otherwise.

Just over 24 hours after the NCAA Tournament selection committee tabbed Purdue as its midseason No. 1 overall seed, the Boilermakers fell flat on the road and suffered their worst loss of the campaign at Ohio State. Matt Painter’s team was among the three squads largely immune to college basketball’s hordes of upsets this season, but that loss proved costly as CBS Sports bracketologist Jerry Palm moved Purdue out of the top spot on his projected bracket for the first time in weeks.

The teams battling for premier spots in the field of 68 remain mostly the same in Palm’s latest outlook, though there was a bit of movement in their pecking order after another week full of stunning results. Purdue’s loss capped off a stretch that also saw Kansas fall by 29 points and Auburn post a 40-point win over an SEC title contender.

Only three weeks remain until conference tournaments tip off, so programs further down the bracket battling for postseason berths only have a few more chances to notch resume-building victories.