Auburn women clinch SEC regular-season title outright

By Andrew Gribble
Auburn University Beat Reporter
Published: March 1, 2009

Call the Tigers selfish, but they wanted this thing all to themselves.

Seriously, that T-shirt’s street value would have dropped by at least 50 percent. We don’t need that in these trying economic times.

Your female Auburn Tigers clinched the SEC regular-season title all to themselves today with a complete trampling of poor, poor Arkansas, 94-57, before 5,616 fans at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.

Auburn’s four seniors, who were honored post-game with quite the ceremony, combined for 60 points and 24 rebounds.

Think they’ll be missed next year?

“They came in here with a brand new staff and got to know us,“ coach Nell Fortner said. “They came to Auburn and they believed in what we were telling them. I’ll always be thankful to them for doing that and for getting this program back to where it needs to be.“

Here were their contributions today, just so we can put their names out there.

Whitney Boddie: 10 points, eight assists.

DeWanna Bonner: 25 points, seven rebounds.

Sherell Hobbs: 18 points, four rebounds.

Trevesha Jackson: 7 points, 11 rebounds.

That’s what we call a solid day at the office. Now let’s all go get Dairy Queen.

Oh wait, it’s cold and snowy. How about we roll Toomers’?

Sounds scandalous, but we’re all for it.

“We don’t get a whole lot of respect,“ Boddie said. “We’re trying to get a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, we’re trying to show teams we’re for real. So we wanted to come out and do that and we did.“

(Photo credit: Todd Van Emst)