BREAKING: Auburn’s Bruce Pearl retires, son Steven Pearl to take over as hoops coach
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After 11 season as head basketball coach at Auburn, Bruce Pearl announced today he is retiring, just a little over a month before the start of the 2025-26 season. His son Steven Pearl will become the team’s next head coach.
In Pearl’s 11 seasons at the helm, Auburn compiled:
- 244-123 record
- 3 SEC regular season championships
- 2 SEC Tournament championships
- 6 NCAA Tournament appearances
- 2 Final Four appearances
- 8 NBA Draft picks
Pearl officially has 477 career wins as a college basketball coach, a career that included stops at Milwaukee and Tennessee. That number currently ranks him in the top 100 all-time in men’s basketball.
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