Instead, Bruce Pearl’s Auburn team beat its third top-12 opponent in its first six games — none of them at home — and advanced to face Memphis in the Maui Invitational championship game. Leading the way, again, was All-American center Johni Broome ...

Johni Broome had 23 points and 19 rebounds to lead No. 4 Auburn to an 85-72 victory over No. 12 North Carolina in a Maui Invitational semifinal Tuesday night.

Johni Broome, like Hunter Dickinson before him ... Jalen Washington, Jalen Withers and Ven-Allen Lubin combined for 22 points and 18 rebounds against Auburn, which led by as many as 19 points in a wire-to-wire victory. “(Broome) dominated this entire ...