Bruce Pearl retires: Steven Pearl named Auburn basketball head coach

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Steven Pearl addressing Ballin in Boutwell press conference. (Pat Byington / Bham Now)

Bruce Pearl, Auburn men’s basketball head coach is set to retire as the head coach of the Auburn men’s basketball program after 11 seasons with the Tigers. 

His son Steven Pearl will become the team’s next head coach.

The news comes less than three weeks after Bruce Pearl said he didn’t plan on coaching “that much longer” on a college basketball podcast. 

The university said Pearl will move into an ambassador’s role in the athletic department as special assistant to the athletic director.

The coaching change comes less than one month before Auburn’s Ballin in Boutwell matchup against the Oklahoma State University Cowboys on October 15th at Birmingham’s historic Boutwell Auditorium.

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Pat Byington

Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the creation of Alabama's Forever Wild program, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Dugger Mountain Wilderness, preservation of special places throughout the East through the Wilderness Society and the strengthening (making more stringent) the state of Alabama's cancer risk and mercury standards.

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