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Auburn has looked like one of the best basketball teams in the country this year and proved why it’s currently ranked No. 1 with a decisive win over Mississippi State on Tuesday. They earned the victory just a couple of hours after a pro-Tigers message mysteriously appeared on the losing team’s Twitter account thanks to a Bulldogs employee who likely received a lecture about the importance of password protection as a result.
The men’s basketball team at Auburn kicked off the season with seven straight wins before dropping their first game of the year to Duke, which marks the lone loss that’s currently sandwiched between another winning streak the Tigers extended to nine games with a win over No. 15 Mississippi State in the highly-touted SEC matchup that unfolded on Tuesday night.
The two schools don’t have a traditional rivalry, but you’re always looking to get the upper hand when you face off against a conference foe.
It’s safe to say Auburn did exactly that in a game where a Tigers squad overflowing with experienced players (the bulk of the guys getting the most playing time on a roster with an average age of 22.8 are in their final year of eligibility) coasted to the 88-66 victory at home to improve to 16-1.
That wasn’t the only L Mississippi State took on Tuesday, as an unexpected tweet appeared on the team’s official account five minutes before tipoff that simply read “wde”—a reference to the “War Damn Eagle” slogan Auburn uses as a rallying cry.
The tweet was deleted shortly after it appeared, but according to Brian Hadad, the message in question was sent out by an Auburn fan who managed to hijack a laptop being used by a Mississippi State employee at Neville Arena who apparently didn’t have any safeguards in place to prevent a random person from tweeting something from the team’s account.
Was told an Auburn fan opened an MSU employee’s laptop when he was away from the desk and tweeted this. https://t.co/zLp7w0OFi8
— Brian Hadad (@brianhadad) January 15, 2025
That’s the kind of harmless trolling you have to respect regardless of what team you root for.