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Lebo Fired at Auburn

By WNCF Staff

Story Created: Mar 13, 2010

Story Updated: Mar 13, 2010

Pre-Air Transcript:

HEY EVERYONE WELCOME INTO SPORTS… /// WELL JEFF LEBO... PROVIDED INPUT DURING THE DESIGNING OF AUBURN’S NEW 90 MILLION DOLLAR BASKETBALL ARENA… WHICH OPENS NEXT YEAR… UNFORTUANETLY FOR LEBO… HE WON’T BE USING THAT FACILITY … THE TIGERS HEAD BASKETBALL COACH WAS FIRED TODAY AFTER SIX SEASONS ON THE PLAINS… ATHLETIC DIRECTOR JAY JACOBS SAID THAT GOING INTO HIS POST-SEASON MEETING WITH LEBO TODAY… HE QUOTE… KNEW WHAT I NEEDED TO DO… ///

JEFF LEBO WAS JUST 96 AND 93 DURING HIS SIX YEARS IN AUBURN… AND HIS CONFERENCE RECORD WAS A FORGETTABLE 35 AND 61… THE TIGERS ONLY POST-SEASON APPEARANCE DURING HIS REIGN WAS IN LAST YEAR’S N-I-T… LEBO HAD THREE YEARS REMAINING ON HIS CONTRACT… SO AUBURN WILL OWE HIM A ONE POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLAR BUYOUT… ///

MEANWHILE… ANOTHER TEAM THAT JUST RECENTLY CHANGED COACHES… ALABAMA… EARNED THEIR WAY INTO AN S-E-C QUARTERFINAL GAME TODAY WITH KENTUCKY… AND GIVE THEM CREDIT… THE TIDE CAME TO PLAY… BUT THE WILDCATS PROVED WHY (THEY’RE)… THE NUMBER TWO TEAM IN THE COUNTRY… ///

BACK TO NASHVILLE… AND THE S-E-C TOURNAMENT… ALMOST ALL KENTUCKY FANS IN ATTENDANCE… TIDE LOOKING FOR A MAJOR UPSET… /// FIRST HALF…. IT WAS LOOKING VERY POSSIBLE EARLY ON… MIKHAIL TORRANCE COMES UP WITH THE STRIP HERE OFF DEANDRE LIGGINS… AND HE HAS NOTHING BUT OPEN COURT IN FRONT OF HIM… LAYS IT IN WITH THE LEFT-HAND … AND THE TIDE IS UP BY 11!?… WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?... /// THEY LED BY FIVE AT THE BREAK BEFORE U-K TURNED ON THE JETS IN THE SECOND HALF… JOHN WALL DRIVES THE LANE… BASKET AND THE FOUL… THE THREE POINT-PLAY WOULD GIVE THE WILDCATS A ONE-POINT LEAD… PART OF SEVEN STRAIGHT POINTS FOR WALL… /// AND THEN LATER ON… IT’S WALL AGAIN… TO PATRICK PATTERSON… WITH AUTHORITY!... KENTUCKY ADVANCES TO PLAY IN THE SEMIFINALS ON SATURDAY… 73 TO 67… THAT’LL BE RIGHT HERE ON A-B-C 32… ///

AND THAT’S SPORTS… I’M ADAM BAGNI… EVERYONE ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU RIGHT BACK HERE… ON MONDAY NIGHT… GUYS… ///

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