When Auburn first donned Under Armour uniforms for the 2006-07 season, it was the start of a new era for the program. An era that would see unique designs, nostalgic elements harkening to the program’s heights, and eventually, new heights most never thought the program would achieve.
Join us as we look back through Auburn’s eighteen-year partnership with Under Armour, detailing every uniform design and minute change only as the Auburn Uniform Database could.
2006-07
The 101st season of Auburn Men’s Basketball kicked off a new era with Under Armour-provided uniforms. The Tigers would usher in this new era with a new set of uniforms and a myriad of changes.
Auburn’s new Under Armour uniforms featured fields of color around the side of the torso upwards to the shoulder yoke with contrasting piping. The piping extended to the shorts but the colored field doesn’t reach the bottom. The shorts hemline includes an additional splash of color. The “Tigers” nickname is also added to the back of the shorts along the piping, a feature that would be replicated in future Under Armour designs.
Auburn’s orange jerseys had long used blue numbers with white outlines. But these new uniforms would swap that – white digits with blue outlines.
The final Russell Athletic uniforms utilized a “true” Copperplate numeral font with unique serifs on each digit. The chest logo was rendered in Copperplate as well but with a larger “A” rather than keeping everything the same height after the transition. The Tigers also sported a 100th-season patch throughout the season on the primary uniforms. The shorts would also inexplicitly place an AU logo on the backside.
The player names on the back of the jersey would also see some changes, utilizing a considerably smaller font. The new font is also thinner and more square than the previous version.
The court at Beard-Eaves Memorial also saw a makeover. The new Copperplate wordmarks were added to the borders instead of the traditional block font. The SEC letters were added to the lane while the venue name and massive tiger eye logos were removed from the middle of the court.
Auburn finished just above .500 with an 18-16 record in the first season with the Under Armour partnership.
2007-08
The 2007-2008 season marked the Southeastern Conference’s 75th anniversary. All conference teams wore a commemorative patch to celebrate. It would be the first time that Auburn had worn the conference logo on a basketball uniform.
Two patch designs were created – one with the 1933-2008 ribbon and one without. The ribbon-included design was only worn by football teams while every other sport went sans-ribbon. The basketball court, however, would don the full ribbon design throughout the season.
2008-09
With the 75th anniversary celebration complete, Auburn and their fellow conference foes would swap to the circular SEC logo on their jerseys. The hardwood would also be updated to reflect the change.
On November 9th, long-time Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Support Services Virgil Starks passed away from cardiac arrest at 46. He was a favorite among athletes and was seen as a father figure to many.
A memorial logo was designed for Auburn’s teams to wear in honor of Starks. The new design featured a graduation mortarboard cap accompanied by VS, Starks’s initials. The basketball team added the patch to the front jersey starting with the second game of the season. It would be worn the rest of the season.
The patch itself differed ever so slightly from the helmet decal the football team would wear the final two games. The patch had the VS initials rendered in Copperplate while the decal used a block font.
The Tigers would finish 24-12 on the season after earning the top seed in the NIT. Auburn would host UT-Martin and Tulsa before falling to Baylor at home in a tight contest. The NIT logo would be placed on the Beard-Eaves court for all three games.
2009-10
The 2009-10 season brought with it a lot of new changes.
In the final season of Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum, Auburn would place a commemorative logo on their home court. However, the design was never used on the uniforms. As for the uniforms, the Tigers would close the home arena chapter with a new set of threads. The new uniforms had a much cleaner and more unique design than the program had worn in recent years.
Each jersey featured a unique collar, with a dual-color design contrasting with the primary jersey color. The back of the arm holes included a contrasting stripe and a pointed stripe sits on the side of the torso. The jersey wordmarks arch across the chest for the first time since 2003-04. For the first time, an AU logo is placed between the player’s name and collar. The chestmark and numbers were no longer white with a colored outline on the orange and navy colorways.
The most unique element comes with the shorts, which feature a set of stripes wrapping up and around the leg. “Tigers” returns to the shorts and rides on the backside of the pointed stripe.
This design also had an interesting feature with the numbers. Each numeral had a lightly sublimated set of tiger stripes. It was certainly an element that was overlooked without being within close distance of the uniform itself.
Auburn would close out the Beard-Eaves era with a 16-17 overall record and make a change at head coach with the new arena looming.
2010-11
2010 was the start of a new era for Auburn Basketball. A new on-campus arena was christened with a new head coach leading the way.
The new Auburn Arena included a new court design. The hardwood no longer featured the navy borders, going for a natural wood look instead. The only splash of color came with the orange lanes. The school name moved to both baselines and no longer donned the sidelines. The lanes didn’t carry the old SEC lettering but instead used the primary logo’s font.
Auburn’s uniforms, in the second year of use, saw two tweaks. First, the Under Armour logo appeared on the chest of the jersey. This was the first season manufacturer logos were allowed to appear on the jersey after the NCAA regulations only permitted the maker marks to the shorts.
Secondly, a new tiny NCAA square patch was added to the jerseys and shorts. After an increase in uniform design violations, the NCAA attempted to create a “certification” program. The program was voluntary in 2010 and teams that “passed” certification would wear a small NCAA Basketball patch on the uniform.
Auburn was one of the few teams that would wear the certification patches, which lasted throughout the lifetime of this uniform design.
2011-12
Year three of this design would be its last.
In an uneventful season uniform-wise, the Tigers would finish 15-16 overall. This uniform set was retired with a record of 42-53.
2012-13
Auburn would begin the third season of the Auburn Arena with a newly redesigned set of uniforms.
The new threads would take inspiration from the Auburn football team’s Northwestern stripes and the basketball program’s history of asymmetric uniform design. The stripes sat on the left shoulder and right leg, each featuring diagonal slices cutting through the stripe and revealing the uniform’s color. The left leg would be home to the AU logo.
These new uniforms were on Under Armour’s latest template and included a new, unique squared-off collar. The chestmark would no longer arch across the front but return to a flat layout. Unlike previous designs, the Auburn wordmark on the chest was just one color – no outline was used, creating an unfinished look. The numbers would retain the two-toned approach and continue carrying the tiger stripe pattern.
While Auburn had previously worn logos on the front of the shorts’ waistband, the new threads took a new approach and created a “belt buckle” look. The logo was placed in a navy square regardless of the uniform or waistband color. The navy square included a thin orange box around the logo as well. The same logo box was added to the player’s name, but it was very small.
2013-14
The Tony Barbee era would go out with a whimper, record-wise and uniform-wise. The Tigers would finish 14-16, pushing Barbee’s record on the Plains to 49-75.
Auburn would continue to wear the design that debuted the year before in yet another uneventful season when it came to the uniforms.
2014-15
After Barbee was fired the previous season, Auburn would make a big splash by hiring former Tennessee head coach Bruce Pearl, despite having time left on his NCAA show-cause penalty.
For Pearl’s first season on the Plains, Auburn would continue to sport the Northwestern-striped uniforms. Until conference season, at least.
On January 10, 2015, Auburn would play Missouri for the first home SEC game of the season after traveling to Vanderbilt days before. Auburn would debut a new uniform design that would be worn for the rest of the season, minus one game.
The new threads featured a two-toned collar, angled bracket stripes on the sides of the jersey and the shorts, a new striped waistband, and a sublimated tiger stripe pattern on the shorts and the lower half of the jersey. Under Armour was again testing out a new tailoring template and providing multiple teams with a similar design. Interestingly enough, these uniforms didn’t use Auburn’s traditional shade of burnt orange. Instead, it was much lighter and bordered on a neon orange highlighter shade.
Auburn would revert to the asymmetric uniforms for the February matchup versus Ole Miss in order to wear orange at home.
On February 28th, Anthony Mason, longtime NBA player and father of Auburn’s Antoine Mason, died of a heart attack at 48. Auburn played at Texas A&M that night. The Aggies equipment team assisted and placed black memorial ribbons on Auburn’s jerseys before the game. The Tigers would wear the ribbons for the rest of the season and through the improbable SEC Tournament run.
Bruce Pearl’s first squad finished 15-20 after an incredible run in the conference tournament.
2015-16
The new Under Armour template tests must have been successful because Auburn fully adopted it with a new uniform design for the 2015-16 season.
After many years of trying to reinvent the wheel, Auburn basketball took a simpler approach. The Tigers were going to wear throwback uniforms inspired by the design that Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and assistant coach Chuck Person wore during their time with the program.
The collar, now with a tri-colored stripe, once again was angularly truncated at the front like on the last set. The Copperplate wordmarks and numbers were replaced with a traditional block font. Two distinct-colored stripes ran down the side of the uniform. Unlike the 1980s designs, the shorts include the AU logo on the left leg beside the stripes and the belt buckle remains on the waistband.
Auburn also made a slight tweak to the SEC patch for most teams this season. No longer would the Tigers wear a lighter-than-navy and white patch, but rather a true navy patch with an orange border.
2016-17
After just one season with the new throwback uniforms, the Tigers would make a few tweaks when adopting the latest Under Armour template.
The template featured a more traditional collar, replacing the awkwardly truncated design seen in previous sets. The shorts’ stripes were now interrupted with the AU logo on both sides due to the template’s seams running where the AU previously sat.
Auburn would also introduce a new alternate design for the season. This new white uniform would feature the team nickname across the chest for the first time in the program’s history. The chestmark and numbers returned to the Copperplate font, diverting from the block font on the throwbacks. Northwestern stripes were placed right below the arm holes and on the bottom half of the shorts, with the AU logo sitting over the shorts’ stripes.
The Auburn Arena court also received a makeover this season. The original design was mostly natural wood with orange details. The new look returned to a Beard-Eaves-esque design with navy borders and lanes.
2017-18
Auburn would continue to wear the second version of the throwback uniforms for the 2017-18 season. The only changes came in the postseason.
After claiming the regular-season SEC title, Auburn would make their first NCAA Tournament since 2003. The Tigers would don the blue NCAA patch for the first time in the opening-round matchup against the College of Charleston.
The NCAA patch feels as though it has been used for decades, but it wasn’t worn until the 2008 tournament. After a fifteen-year tournament drought, the Tigers were finally going to don the blue patch.
2018-19
The 2018-19 season will go down as the greatest in Auburn Basketball history. A 30-10 overall record and an SEC Tournament title propelled the Tigers into another NCAA Tournament appearance. An opening-round dogfight against New Mexico State was the first step to the “Blue Blood Tour,” defeating Kansas, North Carolina, and Kentucky to make the program’s first Final Four appearance.
Like the previous season, the Tigers would stick with the throwback uniforms and add the NCAA patch for the postseason. Once the team arrived in Minneapolis, the NCAA patch was swapped out for the Final Four patch.
Towards the end of the North Carolina game, Chuma Okeke suffered a torn ACL. To ensure his injured teammate was represented the rest of the journey, Malik Dunbar would don Okeke’s #5 jersey in pregame warmups.
2019-20
Following the program’s best season, the Auburn Tigers would sport a new uniform design. Auburn would mothball the throwback-inspired design and fully re-adopt the Copperplate font and current branding.
The new threads included Northwestern stripes wherever possible – the shoulder, the torso, the waistband, and the side of the shorts. The shoulder stripes sat only on the armhole as the shorts’ stripes bent forward around the AU logo. The “belt buckle” design on the waistband was updated, swapping the AU logo for an eagle silhouette design.
The orange colorway was unique to this set and differed from the white and navy designs. “Tigers” returned to the chest for another season and the stripes were limited to just the shoulders and the hemline of the shorts. The stripes on the shorts and waistband were placed diagonally on blue fields. The jersey also included a half-navy collar, with the color portion only covering the front of the shirt.
The 2019-20 college basketball season would get cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The SEC Tournament and NCAA Tournament would both be canceled.
Auburn finished with a 25-6 record and was bound for another successful postseason bid.
2020-21
After a tumultuous 2020, sports miraculously returned in the fall. Basketball was secluded to empty venues and socially distant benches for the teams.
With the social unrest during the spring and summer in America, many teams looked to show solidarity and support the causes being fought for. Many teams created school-specific designs to don on their uniforms. Auburn went with a simpler approach – use a simple handshake design. All of Auburn’s team sports would wear the black-and-white design. The basketball team placed the Auburn Unity icon on the back of the jerseys above the player names.
Auburn would divert from one uniform trend this season – wearing a colored uniform at home. The Tigers wore the white uniforms for every home game in 2020-21, breaking a streak of at least one non-white game since the 2013-14 season. This was only the second time since the 2002-03 season.
2021-22
The 2021-22 season was more of the same for Auburn’s uniforms. The stripe-heavy design was now in its third season of use. Everything remained unchanged uniform-wise this season.
The Auburn Unity icon did remain on the back of the jersey, though a few issues cropped up. Due to the image being heat-pressed onto the garment rather than an embroidered patch like other programs, some of the applications began to flake off. The issues would ultimately be remedied and no issues would crop up over the next season.
Auburn would rename Auburn Arena to Neville Arena on March 4, 2022, in honor of Bill and Connie Neville for the then-single largest gift in Auburn Athletics history
It was another successful season for the Tigers, earning a 28-6 overall record, an SEC regular season title, and landing the AP Poll’s #1 spot for the first time in program history. Unfortunately, Auburn would fall in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Miami.
2022-23
The fourth and final season of Auburn’s striped uniforms failed to reach the heights that the previous seasons experienced. A 21-13 overall record saw the Tigers fight to land a 7-seed entry to the NCAA Tournament.
The team’s uniforms didn’t see any changes throughout the season. Once the Tigers made it to the Big Dance, the NCAA patch was moved from above the SEC patch to above the Under Armour logo. It was only the fourth time that Auburn had worn the Tournament patch, but the first time it appeared on the right side of the jersey.
2023-24
After four years of use, it was time to replace the team’s uniforms. The Tigers’ new threads once again harkened to a former period in the program’s history. The 2015-16 uniforms were almost identical throwbacks while the 2023-24 set was more so inspired by the Barkley and Persons era.
Under Armour made a few tweaks to the template this season, most notably adding the UA logo to the center of the collar. The new collar logo would interrupt the Tigers’ striped collar. The armholes would carry a matching stripe. The shorts included Northwestern stripes across the waistband and around the shorts’ legs, neither of which matched the jersey’s striping pattern. The AU logo would sit above the shorts’ stripes on either side.
The orange uniform once again was different in this set. The stripes were removed from the collar, armholes, and around the legs and instead placed vertically down the side of the torso. The team nickname once again sat on the chest.
The new template moving the Under Armour logo to the collar was meant to allow for more space when the postseason patches were added to the jersey. When the Tigers returned to the NCAA Tournament, the round blue patch was placed even with the SEC patch.
2024-25
Auburn Basketball would send Under Armour out on a high note. The Tigers would break records all season long, en route to a 32-win season, a regular season conference title, the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, and the program’s second Final Four appearance.
The primary story as the season progressed was the disappearance of Auburn’s orange uniforms. The third kit was not worn all season. Some fans believed it was due to the tail end of the Under Armour relationship, conveniently forgetting that the uniforms were worn the previous season and remained in the locker room.
Ultimately, it was due to superstition or hot streaks, whichever you prefer. The Tigers ran the non-conference portion of the season with a 12-1 record. The lone loss came at then-#9 Duke in Cameron Indoor. The six-point loss clearly wasn’t enough to change the uniform course of the season.
When the Big Dance began, Auburn once again placed the NCAA patch on the right chest, opposite the SEC patch. After four victories, the Tigers earned another Final Four berth. The blue NCAA circle was replaced with the San Antonio-inspired championship series patch.
The Final Four game also saw the Under Armour logo on the jersey and shorts be updated to a gold colorway. This is similar to what Under Armour and Nike have done for the College Football Playoff teams. This was the first time it was utilized on the hardwood for either company.
Under Armour left its mark on the Auburn Men’s Basketball program’s aesthetic. This relationship has seen it all, from unique innovative designs to near-perfect replications of the heights the program saw in previous decades.
A former head coach for this program once declared that it wasn’t possible to win with an Under Armour-outfitted program. In the last decade, the Tigers have proven that to be anything but true.
During the eighteen-year partnership with Under Armour, the Auburn Tigers claimed three regular-season SEC titles, two SEC Tournament trophies, six NCAA Tournament appearances, and two Final Four appearances.
Auburn looks to continue this era of success and titles into the future – a future that swaps the Under Armour logo for the Nike Swoosh.
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