[Cactus Jack]

There are a few teams that can defend like Auburn (Houston, St. John's, Iowa State), and there a few teams that can score like Auburn (Kentucky, Alabama); but I haven't seen a team that can score and defend like Auburn.

I'd take them over the field right now because the two teams most likely to beat them (Houston and Duke) have some flaws and won't see them until the Final Four. Aside from a meeting with one of those (where Duke gets Duke calls or where Houston's D pitches a shutout and plays well enough on offense to win), it's going to take the combination of both Auburn playing bad and another team playing really well to knock them off.

All of that to say that I'm not shocked or worried by this result and hope that we stay out of their bracket (plenty of projections have us ending up in the same region, which would be especially terrible if we were a 4 seed).