In its final warmup before the official start of the Steven Pearl era, Auburn basketball put together an impressive showing against Memphis.

Auburn pulled off a 100-71 win, bouncing back from its exhibition loss to Oklahoma State two weeks ago and moving into the regular season with confidence.

It’s always good to be cautious about taking too much from an exhibition result, but Auburn’s performance against Memphis was a sign of progress.

Here are three takeaways from the dominant win.

Forcing turnovers

From the start of the game, Auburn’s zone defense game Memphis problems. Memphis gave the ball away 10 times by the first media timeout and finished the night with 23 turnovers.

Auburn finished with 13 steals as its zone confused Memphis early on and gave it problems for most of the

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