If Auburn’s season opener was any indication, the Tigers can look to a number of different sources for scoring this year.
Nell Fortner was hard-pressed to find a game from her seven years as Auburn’s coach that made her feel the way she did after the Tigers’ 57-45 loss to Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon.
Arnika Edwards, Director of Administrative Support Services for the Auburn women’s basketball team, let the gathering of Tiger players in on a piece of news after Friday’s practice that she’d been keeping from them for a little more than five months.
Halfway into the conference season, the Auburn women’s basketball team is exceeding expectations.
Morgan Toles got the ball on the right elbow, gave a shoulder shiver and drove hard to her left, navigating through the mass of bodies stacked up in the lane and banking in a layup with english and a foul on the shot to boot.
Auburn saw – and lost to – the best the SEC has to offer in Tennessee last Sunday.
Auburn coach Nell Fortner looked about as tired as her players after No. 5 Tennessee handed the Tigers a 73-53 loss Sunday.
More than 12,000 fans packed into Beard-Eaves Coliseum hoping to see the Auburn women do something they hadn’t done in more than a decade.
| Date | Opponent | Location | Time / Result |
| 11/08/09 | vs. Georgia College & State University * | Auburn, Ala. | W, 73-50 |
| 11/13/09 | vs. Troy | Auburn, Ala. | W, 70-65 |
| 11/22/09 | vs. Texas A&M | Auburn, Ala. | L, 79-59 |
| 11/24/09 | vs. Georgia Southern | Auburn, Ala. | W, 62-56 |
| Florida State Thanksgiving Classic | |||
| 11/27/09 | at Florida State | Tallahassee, Fla. | L, 82-67 |
| 11/28/09 | vs. Florida A&M | Tallahassee, Fla. | W, 69-45 |
| 12/01/09 | at North Carolina A&T | Greensboro, N.C. | W, 76-63 |
| 12/05/09 | vs. George Washington | Auburn, Ala. | W, 62-43 |
| 12/20/09 | at South Alabama | Mobile, Ala. | W, 71-50 |
| 12/15/09 | vs. Liberty | Auburn, Ala. | W, 70-64 |
| San Diego State Surf and Slam Tournament | |||
| 12/28/09 | vs. Valparaiso | San Diego, Calif. | W, 51-50 |
| 12/30/09 | at San Diego State | San Diego, Calif. | L, 66-55 |
| 01/03/10 | vs. Mississippi State # | Auburn, Ala. | L, 73-58 |
| 01/07/10 | at Florida TV | Gainesville, Fla. | L, 71-68 (2OT) |
| 01/10/10 | at LSU # TV | Baton Rouge, La. | W, 64-62 |
| 01/14/10 | vs. Alabama # | Auburn, Ala. | 6:00 p.m. CT |
| 01/17/10 | at South Carolina # | Columbia, S.C. | 2:00 p.m. CT |
| 01/21/10 | vs. Vanderbilt # TV | Auburn, Ala. | 8:00 p.m. CT |
| 01/24/10 | at Kentucky # TV | Lexington, Ky. | 1:00 p.m. CT |
| 01/28/10 | at Tennessee # TV | Knoxville, Tenn. | 6:00 p.m. CT |
| 01/31/10 | vs. Georgia # TV | Auburn, Ala. | 5:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/04/10 | vs. South Carolina # | Auburn, Ala. | 6:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/07/10 | at Alabama # TV | Tuscaloosa, Ala. | 2:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/11/10 | vs. Arkansas # | Auburn, Ala. | 6:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/14/10 | vs. LSU # TV | Auburn, Ala. | 3:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/21/10 | at Mississippi State # | Starkville, Miss. | 2:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/25/10 | at Mississippi # | Oxford, Miss. | 7:00 p.m. CT |
| 02/28/10 | vs. Kentucky # | Auburn, Ala. | 2:00 p.m. CT |