The Tigers have defeated eight teams ranked in the AP Top 25. The Tigers are unbeaten at home, and their schedule in February includes five home games.

Johni Broome left Baton Rouge on Wednesday with another reason to be considered the best player in college basketball. His 26 points and 16 rebounds in Auburn basketball’s 87-74 victory over LSU were a testament to how dominant the Tigers leading scorer has been, reaching his 12th double-double on the season.

On the same day Auburn's Johni Broome suffered an ankle injury at South Carolina that sidelined him for two weeks, Duke's Cooper Flagg scored a career-high 42 points in a victory at Notre Dame. That's when the NPOY race flipped.