It didn’t take long for Jaylin Williams to get started.
Less than two minutes into Saturday night’s game between No. 21 Auburn and Mississippi State, Williams pulled from deep on the Tigers’ first possession and hit a 3 to give Auburn its first lead of the night.
In a lot of ways, it was not Auburn’s night. While post play has been a strength for a lot of the year, it was out-matched — rather out-sized — by a Mississippi State team that rosters three 6-foot-10-plus centers, including its leading scorer Tolu Smith. “My teammates trust in me,” Williams said. “They always tell me to shoot the ball. Sometimes I take off on some shots, and drive or like, pass it. But they trusted in me. They kept telling me to shoot the ball. I just continued to shoot, and then it was falling.”
Five different Tigers — Williams, Wendell Green Jr., Allen Flanigan, KD Johnson, and Zep Jasper — all made at least one three. “Wendell gets bounced around a lot and it really wasn’t until the very end he got to the free throw line,” Pearl said. “We had a crazy lineup out there late. We had Lior at the 3, and Al at the 4, and Johni at the 5, because Jaylin had fouled out, and did not take care of the ball as well as we should have.
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