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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Johni Broome scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as No. 12 Auburn won the Tigers' third Southeastern Conference Tournament championship by beating Florida 86-67. The Tigers avoided the upset bug that took out the SEC's top three seeds in the quarterfinals. They never trailed in the final, adding titles to those won in 1985 and 2019 and earning a second under coach Bruce Pearl. The sixth-seeded Florida Gators were playing their fourth game in as many days and trying to win the program's fifth SEC Tournament title and first since 2014. They lost starting center Micah Handlogten to a broken lower left leg within the first three minutes.
