Auburn basketball is less than a week away from their exhibition game against Oklahoma State at Boutwell Auditorium.

Now fully immersed as the head basketball coach beginning the Steven Pearl era, the remnants of Bruce Pearl’s retirement still sit heavily with the 2025 roster.

“I was pretty surprised, but you know, as long as he’s been doing this, eventually, you know, he was going to hang it up,” Elyjah Freeman said. “And luckily, we got [Steven Pearl] as the head coach, to come pick up arms and looking forward to that as well.”

Despite being the youngest head coach in the SEC at age 38, Steven Pearl has earned the respect from Auburn’s locker room and has a group ready to play for him.

Tahaad Pettiford is the only returning player from last year’s Final Four team. Auburn signed 10

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