Tay Waller woke up last Saturday morning in The Zone, and has lived in it for the past seven days.

When Auburn and LSU last met, coach Jeff Lebo was scrambling to find someone, anyone, who could guard Tasmin Mitchell and prevent him from breaking some sort of scoring record at the Tigers’ expense.

OXFORD, Miss. — All Tay Waller could do was watch.

Auburn’s three guards, all of whom would never be mistaken for forwards or centers, went through a world of problems the last time they matched up with Ole Miss’ two, 6-foot-5 guards.

Auburn University is participating in the inaugural Love College Hoops … Beat Cancer Week, a fan driven initiative created to support the fight against cancer.

Auburn found itself in a familiar situation Saturday night, clinging and trailing to the slightest of margins against Arkansas.

Two of Auburn’s top scorers were on the bench because of fouls at the end of Thursday’s loss at Florida, but that’s not why two bench players saw the most action they had seen all conference season and another picked up more than he’d seen in the past month.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Erving Walker missed every shot from the field. But he was nearly perfect from the free-throw line — just what Florida needed to avoid a three-game losing streak.