The arrival of Under Armour in 2006 brought a unified look to Auburn Basketball. For the women’s team, that initially meant designs that closely mirrored the men’s uniforms—block fonts, classic striping, and a no-frills approach that matched the era.
But over time, Auburn Women’s Basketball carved out its own identity on the court. Subtle shifts in design, alternate colorways, and unique trim details began to separate the team visually, setting them apart while still feeling unmistakably Auburn.
Eighteen seasons brought a steady progression of styles—each building on the last, rooted in tradition but never standing still.
2006-07
Among all of Auburn’s teams making the transition from Russell Athletic to Under Armour, the most stark difference was probably the women’s basketball team.
The new threads incorporated the newly adopted Copperplate wordmark and numbers. On the navy and orange colorways, the text and numerals were now white outlined in a contrasting color, rather than the other way around with the Russell uniforms.
The defining feature of this set is the two-toned details across the uniform. A large shoulder yoke is flanked on either side with the accent color on each uniform. Underneath the arms, a thin line ran vertically with two colored fields wrapping upward to the backside of the armholes.
The shorts mimicked this design, with the same thin stripe down the front. The two stripes then extruded from there and wrapped around the backside of the shorts.
The old Russell uniforms featured a thick collar with the AU logo intersecting the color, Clarendon numerals, and a unique wordmark with the front leg of the “A” and “R” curling underneath the next letter. A similar font was used for the player names. Thin lines of piping wrapped the arm holes and down the sides to the shorts, where, on the right side, it expanded to a larger field housing the AU logo.
2007-08
To celebrate the Southeastern Conference’s 75th anniversary, each team sport across the league wore the commemorative logo on their uniforms. Auburn placed the 75th logo on the left chest of each jersey.
Auburn would be awarded a 11-seed for the NCAA Tournament, paired to face #6 George Washington. For the first time, the Tigers added the light blue NCAA circle patch to the jerseys for the big dance. The new patch sat opposite the SEC 75th anniversary patch on the jerseys.
2008-09
Following the SEC’s 75th anniversary, all SEC teams adopted the circular SEC logo patch. The Tigers’ home court was also updated with the new conference logo.
Long-time Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Support Services Virgil Starks passed away from cardiac arrest on November 9th. He was just 46.
Both Auburn basketball programs wore a special patch in Starks’s honor, featuring a mortarboard cap with VS, Starks’s initials. Auburn played a game the day Starks passed without the VS patch. It was added the following game and worn for the remainder of the season.
Auburn returned to the NCAA Tournament as the #2 seed. The NCAA patch was again placed on the right chest but underneath the VS patch.
2009-10
Auburn celebrated the final season of Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum during the 2009-10 season with a commemorative logo that was placed on the hardwood. It never donned the uniforms, however.
The Tigers would introduce new uniforms this season as well. The new design was a much more streamlined look compared to the previous set.
The new uniforms were set on a new silhouette which included a slight racerback design. The armholes and collar included a tapering stripe. A two-toned stripe ran along the sides of the jerseys, tapering to a point just below the armholes. The shorts continued the tapering stripe, though it hit a corner and pointed towards the back of the shorts. A small “Tigers” wordmark was added to the back left leg just above the pointed stripes.
Player names were removed from the new uniforms, and replaced with a small AU logo and “War Eagle” mark placed underneath. The chestmark now arched across the front of the chest rather than being placed straight horizontally. The colored uniforms now featured the lettering and numbers in a contrasting color with white outlines after being primarily white with the previous design. The back panel of the jerseys also included a sublimated tiger stripe pattern.
2010-11
After seeing an increase in uniform design violations, the NCAA attempted to create a “certification” program to strike down the issue. 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. The tiny patch sat on the left side of the jersey just above the SEC patch.
The Tigers sported brand-new pink uniforms for select breast cancer awareness games. The new threads included a partially white collar and two stripes on the sides of the uniform. The stripes would cross on the shorts, mimicking a ribbon. Underneath the crossing white stripes was a grey field housing the AU logo.
It’s believed these may be the first pink uniforms in the program’s history.
2011-12
Following an NCAA rule change, manufacturer logos were now permitted to be visible on jerseys. Previously, the marks were only allowed on the shorts. Under Armour placed their logo on the bottom of the jerseys, which would be obscured when ticked in.
2012-13
Outgoing head coach Nell Fortner’s final gift to Auburn was a new set of uniforms. Based on a racerback top design, the new uniforms were thinner, tighter, and shorter to supposedly create “a more feminine look.” Northwestern Stripes were added to the sides of the jerseys and on the shorts.
The players reportedly hated the new threads. Each colorway was worn once in the season-opening Wolfpack Invitational at NC State before being mothballed for the uniforms worn the previous season.
When Auburn hosted UT-Chattanooga on December 19th, the Tigers’ uniforms had a special addition. A black square housing a green S and a white H was placed on the right shoulder above the Under Armour logo to honor the victims and families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. The patch was only worn for this game.
2013-14
With the previous misstep of a new uniform design, Auburn tried again the following season.
Three new uniforms were introduced with each featuring a large section underneath the armholes that housed a pair of Northwestern Stripes. The same design was placed on the bottom of the shorts, but with the stripes vertical rather than horizontal.
The collar was squared off at the base and featured a small AU logo in a tiny rounded navy rectangle. The front half of the collar matched the jersey color with the back portion a contrasting color. A small “Tigers” wordmark adorned the front side of the shorts on the right leg. Player names also returned to this set after being missing on the previous uniforms.
2014-15
Auburn continued to wear last year’s uniforms with no changes.
2015-16
Auburn entered year three of the current uniform design and would once again make no changes.
The Tigers would earn the program’s 19th NCAA Tournament appearance, the first since 2009. The blue NCAA patch returned to Auburn’s uniforms, placed right above the conference logo.
2016-17
The previous uniform design was retired after three seasons of use. The new uniforms would also utilize the Northwestern Stripes but do so in a cleaner fashion.
The new uniforms moved away from housing the stripes in large blocks of color and instead added them directly to the garment. The stripes were placed diagonally on either side of the collar and on the bottom of each short leg, interrupted only by the AU logos. A navy “belt buckle” housed the AU logo on the front of the shorts. The stripes were also placed above the back numbers, which moved the player names to underneath the numbers.
The NCAA patch would appear once more and again on the left shoulder above the SEC patch. The SEC patch, also, saw a slight change, replacing the white outline with an orange stroke.
2017-18
For the 2017-18 season, Auburn finally retired the old pink uniform in favor of a new design.
The new threads were a darker shade of pink and included white and grey stripes on the torso and shorts. The Auburn wordmark and player numbers were all white but the same size as the base designs with the outline. The single-color approach created a bloated look for the lettering and numbers.
While adding a new uniform, Auburn removed one from the previous season. The orange colorway was nowhere to be seen this season. This would eventually become an ongoing saga for the ensuing seasons.
2018-19
After a one-year hiatus, the orange uniforms returned for two games in 2018 – once on the road at Xavier University of Louisiana and once at home against Alabama State.
The Tigers would earn another NCAA Tournament berth, again placing the NCAA patch above the SEC logo.
2019-20
Auburn’s love for the Northwestern Stripes continued in 2019, with the new uniform set featuring the stripes in a unique manner.
The jerseys and shorts each feature the triple-stripe design vertically along the sides. The shorts’ stripes were intersected with the AU logo. The top of the jersey stripes were angled sharply to point towards the wordmark and player numbers.
The stripes on the backside of the collar remained but saw the addition of the AU logo directly below. A new Auburn logo – a white silhouette of an eagle – replaced the AU logo on the shorts belt buckle.
2020-21
When Auburn returned to the hardwood in late 2020, the Tigers’ uniforms would be adorned with the new Auburn Unity patch.
Following the social uprising that occurred over the summer during the pandemic, many schools created initiatives to support the cause. Auburn adopted a mark featuring two clasping hands – one black, one white. All Auburn team sports would wear the Unity logo. The Women’s Basketball team placed the design below the Under Armour logo for all uniforms except the pinks, which did not include the mark.
Auburn also introduced a new alternate navy uniform this season. The new design included diagonal Northwestern Stripes on orange fields placed at the waistband and bottom of the shorts. The jerseys didn’t include the same stripe motif as the base design. “Tigers” was added to the front of the jerseys, becoming the first Under Armour uniforms – and perhaps first in program history – to include the nickname rather than the school name.
2021-22
The 2021-22 season was much the same as the year before – same uniforms, same Auburn Unity mark.
Except for two items. The orange uniforms remained missing, as they haven’t been worn since 2018. And the new Tigers alternates introduced last season went unworn.
2022-23
The on-again-off-again approach to the Auburn uniforms continues. The missing navy Tigers uniforms would return for the 2022-23 season, along with the primary white and navy designs and the pink uniforms. The orange threads were still locked in the closet not to be worn.
2023-24
For 2024, Auburn once again introduced a new uniform design. And again, the Northwestern Stripes were heavily featured.
The jerseys were simple, with the stripes running the sides of the jersey. A two-colored collar was used on each design with the AU logo above the back number and the player name underneath.
The unique element came with the shorts. A single stripe began at the top and bent around the sides, to angle again around the bottom of the shorts. Tiger stripes were also added to the bottom of the shorts for an added bit of detail.
After a five-year and 140-game hiatus, Auburn finally wore orange uniforms once again. The Tigers would wear them in five games during the season after only appearing eight times in the nine years prior.
For the first time since 2018, Auburn added a new pink uniform. The new threads featured a white collar and armholes with an extra white field underneath. The armhole stripes looked to resemble the bottom parts of the ribbon that was placed on the right chest. The shorts mimicked this motif with a large white field down the sides and across the front. A pink AU logo was used for the first time, sitting in the white fields on the left leg.
Auburn would again make an NCAA appearance, the program’s first since 2019. The NCAA patch appeared on the right side of the jersey for the first time since the 2009 Tournament.
2024-25
Auburn’s 2024-25 season would end with a losing record and another coaching change. The Tigers didn’t see any changes to the uniforms this season, continuing to sport all four colorways of the previous season.
For nearly two decades, Auburn Women’s Basketball walked the line between tradition and innovation, embracing fresh designs while maintaining a clear visual identity.
The Under Armour era wasn’t defined by drastic overhauls or headline-making alternates, but by gradual shifts and thoughtful updates that gave the program a style all its own.
With a new apparel partner on deck, Auburn turns the page to a new era. Will the aesthetic evolution continue? Or will Nike inject a new wave of design elements in the coming seasons?
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