For more than 24 hours, students camped out around the arena, desperate for a chance to get in and see the action. The general public, for whom tickets aren’t distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis, spent $300 a pop on standing-room-only tickets to get in the gym.
It’s a scene that would be familiar in Krzyzewskiville at Duke, where college basketball has always reigned supreme. But at Auburn? In the SEC? Your first thought would be that the orange-clad crowd had gotten lost on its way to Jordan-Hare Stadium.
At least for the next few months, Auburn is a basketball school. And after the Tigers’ 80–71 win over Kentucky in front of a packed house of just over 9,000, Auburn might just be the No. 1 basketball school in the country.
