AUBURN, Ala. – After a Thursday night off in SEC play, the Auburn women's basketball team is back on the road this weekend as they head to Columbia, Missouri, to take on the Missouri Tigers. Game time is 1 p.m. CT Sunday at Mizzou Arena.
Auburn (14-8, 3-6 SEC) is still looking for its first SEC road win after dropping its last three on the road by a combined eight points. The Tigers came up short in the final seconds at Arkansas last Sunday, 74-72. Missouri (11-12, 2-8) comes into Sunday's contest having dropped five straight.
ON THE AIR
›› Brit Bowen will have the radio call on AU100 (100.3 FM) beginning at 12:45 p.m. CT. The broadcast can also be heard on AuburnTigers.com and the Auburn Athletics app.
›› Sunday's game can be seen on SEC Network with Roy Philpott and Tamika Catchings calling the action.
LAST TIME OUT
›› Honesty Scott-Grayson had her third straight game with at least 20 points, but a furious fourth-quarter rally came up just short in a 74-72 loss to Arkansas Sunday at Bud Walton Arena.
›› Scott-Grayson topped the 20-point mark for the third straight game and the fourth time in nine SEC games. She was 10-of-20 from the field and made a season-high four 3-pointers while also recording five rebounds, four assists, three steals and a season-best three blocks. Collins recorded her second double-double of the season with 12 points and 11 rebounds; she also led the Tigers with four steals. Celia Sumbane broke into double figures for the second time with 10 points.
AN AUBURN WIN WOULD...
›› Secure a winning regular-season record with a 15th win.
›› Be the 992nd win in program history.
›› Improve Auburn to 3-0 against other Tigers this season (Clemson, LSU).
AUBURN-MISSOURI SERIES
›› Auburn is 6-10 all-time against MIssouri with 14 of the 16 meetings coming since Missouri joined the SEC in 2012-13. Missouri has won the last three meetings.
LAST MEETING: Jan. 1, 2023, at Auburn
Missouri 62, Auburn 56
›› Aicha Coulibaly led Auburn with 20 points and seven rebounds, but Missouri made 4 of 5 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to hold off Auburn, winning 62-56 on New Year's Day at Neville Arena.
›› Jakayla Johnson scored nine points and led Auburn with four assists with only one turnover while making her point guard debut. Wells added eight points.
›› Auburn played its second straight game without second-leading scorer Honesty Scott-Grayson, who was out with injury.
SCOUTING THE MIZZOU TIGERS
›› Missouri is 11-12 overall and 2-8 in SEC play. Mizzou is 8-4 at home this season.
›› Mizzou averages 72.2 points per game but gives up 70.0. They are one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the country, averaging 8.6 made treys per game (2nd in SEC; 22nd NCAA).
›› Hayley Frank leads Mizzou in scoring (17.5) and rebounding (6.7), but has missed the last two games with injury. Mama Dembele is top-10 nationally in assists (6.6) and steals (3.1).
SCOUTING AUBURN
›› Auburn is 14-8 overall, 3-6 in SEC play after a third straight road loss by three points or less.
›› The Tigers have three road wins this season, the most since winning 10 times on the road in 2018-19.
›› Auburn has three top-30 wins this year, defeating NET No. 9 LSU, No. 24 Washington State and No. 28 Alabama, all at home.
›› The Tigers are 12-0 this season when shooting at least 40% from the field.
›› Graduate student Honesty Scott-Grayson has scored 15+ points in every SEC game this season and 20+ four times. She matched a career-high with 31 points vs. No. 1 South Carolina on Feb. 1. It was the third 30+ point game of her career and her fifth game with at least 20 points this season. She followed that up with a 27-point performance at Arkansas. She was named SEC Player of the Week after a 21-point performance in the win over LSU, then matched that output with 21 in the win over Georgia. She leads the team with 17.4 points/game and also averages 3.9 rebounds and 2.3 assists. She averages 20.1 points/game in SEC play (2nd in SEC), and has scored in double figures in 20 out of 21 games she has played this year.
›› JaMya Mingo-Young leads Auburn with 3.7 assists/game, and she is second on the team with 8.7 points/game. She is third in the SEC and 24th nationally in assist/turnover ratio (2.5). She is also third in the league in free-throw percentage (83.1%) and made 29 consecutive free throws from the UAB game Dec. 3 until finally missing at Texas A&M Jan. 7. Mingo-Young scored a season-high 16 points against Clemson, hitting 9-of-11 free throw attempts, then matched her scoring output with 16 against Norfolk State and tied an Auburn record going 12-for-12 at the free-throw line. She made the highlight-reel play of the season to clinch the win over LSU, stealing the ball from Angel Reese and drawing a foul with 10 seconds to play and Auburn leading by 2, then sinking both free throws to secure the win.
›› Senior Taylen Collins scored a season-best 17 points in the win over Alabama State. Collins had a huge second half to spark the comeback win over UL-Lafayette on Nov. 9 with all nine of her points and 8 of 14 rebounds coming after halftime. She recorded her first Auburn double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds vs. Alabama A&M, then got her first in SEC play with 12 points and 11 rebounds at Arkansas. She averages 8.3 points and a team-leading 6.6 rebounds.
›› Junior Mar'Shaun Bostic scored a season-high 17 points on 7-11 shooting vs. Tennessee. She had a huge game in the opener vs. Jacksonville State with 12 points, 4 assists, 4 steals and 3 rebounds. She then had another huge game agains Clemson with 7 points, 4 assists and a career-high 5 steals. Another big game for her came against Georgia when she had 4 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals.
›› Sophomore Sydney Shaw scored a career-high 17 points at UCF and has hit double-figures in six games. Shaw also led the Tigers with 15 points in the Alabama A&M win and scored 11 against Clemson. She is fourth on the team with 6.3 points/game.
›› Sophomore Kaitlyn Duhon started the season off with a bang, scoring 13 points along with 3 rebounds and 2 steals in the opener vs. JSU. She showed off her speed against Clemson, especially late in the first half, as she scored 10 points with 3 rebounds and 3 steals. She swiped a career-high 5 steals in just 10 minutes of action vs. Alabama State, and she has started the last seven games.
›› Freshman Savannah Scott has seen a resurgence since moving back into the starting lineup vs. Alabama, averaging 6.7 points and 4.7 rebounds over the last three games she has played. For the season, she averages 5.3 points and 3.7 rebounds, and she was SEC Freshman of the Week the opening week of the season after a double-double at Rutgers.
IN OUR SUPER BOWL ERA
›› Auburn is 13-15 all-time on Super Bowl Sunday and is 4-5 in its last nine contests the day of the big game.
›› Sunday's game is the second straight on the road for Auburn. The Tigers played at home three straight times from 2019-21; prior to that, Auburn had been on the road seven straight times on Super Sunday.
›› In 2020 when the Chiefs faced the 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, Auburn defeated Vanderbilt at home, 70-62.
›› The Tigers are 2-1 when Kansas City plays in the Super Bowl (2023: lost at Alabama; 2021: lost to Missouri; 2020: def. Vanderbilt). Auburn is 3-1 when San Francisco is playing on the final day of the season (1982: def. WKU; 1995: def. Kentucky; 2013: lost to South Carolina; 2020: def. Vanderbilt).
›› NFC teams are 7-6 when Auburn wins, and AFC teams are 9-6 when Auburn comes up short.
›› The last time Auburn faced Missouri on Super Bowl Sunday (2021), Honesty Scott-Grayson scored a then-career high 30 points.
UP NEXT
›› Auburn is back at home Thursday, Feb. 15, to host the Kentucky Wildcats. Game time is 6 p.m. CT; it's the annual Play4Kay Pink Game and fans are encouraged to wear pink.
Women's hoops on the road at Missouri Sunday
