“We just keep bouncing back,” Auburn's Wendell Green Jr. said. “Hopefully, it’s just the postseason — one game at a time. We’re only guaranteed one game. Hopefully we can just keep it going and go on a little run.”
Green resigned himself to defeat in the moment. He would be phoneless for the rest of Auburn’s August trip to Israel, when the team played three exhibition games against international competition, but he maintained an optimism about his phone’s status. A few days later, after having time to air out, it was working again.
While Green has yet to learn his lesson on that front, there he was on Wednesday morning, sitting in front of his locker at Legacy Arena and chatting with reporters ahead of Auburn’s first-round game against Iowa in the NCAA Tournament. His phone lied face-down on the cushion between his legs. It was working again, a promising sign for Auburn’s floor general — and perhaps a metaphor for the Tigers’ season.“Yeah, we’ve had a lot of adversity,” senior guard Zep Jasper said.
“I do think the team had to get up off the mat a lot this year,” Pearl said this week. “And yet we pretty much were able to — almost every time.” Williams and freshman point guard Tre Donaldson laughed and shook their heads when asked about Green’s harrowing history with his phone. K.D. Johnson seemed puzzled by the reoccurrence of the issue, and Green himself seemed unfazed by it; he refuses to get a waterproof case, confident that his phone will manage — even if he needs to keep reviving it.Kind of like this Auburn team. Every time the Tigers have been knocked down they’ve pulled themselves up.
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