When the Tigers are on, they're on. And they were definitely on Saturday afternoon.

Auburn scored a season-high 85 points, getting a career-best 22 points from guard Tay Waller to win the first half of the Iron Bowl of basketball.

Waller was the man. He made his first five 3-pointers and finished with six in the game. It was part of the Tigers' 10-for-20 afternoon from 3-point range.

“If you make shots, it’s contagious,” Auburn head coach Jeff Lebo said. “When you miss them, they’re the same way. If you’re going to ask me what the difference was from one night to the other, I don’t know. I wish I knew.”

Both teams are now 11-6 overall and 1-2 in the SEC.

Some quick thoughts ...

• Just a monster offensive night for Auburn, especially the first part of each half. In the first five minutes of each half, the Tigers out-scored Alabama 42-10. You just can't come back from that.

• Another solid game from Korvotney Barber, who finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. He got T'd up for hanging on the rim a bit too long late in the game. I question the call, although I do think he could have earned one for a little bit of an extra hang on a dunk earlier in the game.

• DeWayne Reed scored 19 points and Rasheem Barrett scored 12 in his first start of the season. Barrett, who has been slow to come back from a groin injury suffered in the preseason, has been splitting his time between the three and the four. Today he started at the four. "He is a hard matchup for big guys, so I think he is starting to find his niche," Lebo said.

• Back to Waller, who was 1-for-8 from 3-point range against Florida earlier this week and was stuck in a 6-for-29 slump from outside in the last four gamess. "It’s been a while since I had a good game,” he said. "That gave me my confidence back and my teammates kept getting me the ball, so I kept shooting.”

• Auburn hounded Alabama with its fullcourt trap. The Crimson Tide committed a season-high 20 turnovers, which the Tigers turned into 34 points. Now that's how you capitalize.

• Very impressed by Tide guard Mikhail Torrance, who scored a game-high 24 points. It seems like he should be in the starting lineup, doesn't it?

• Bama sorely missed Ronald Steele, who is out indefinitely with a heel injury. He's made 37 of Alabama's 79 3-pointers this year. Without him, the Tide went 2-for-11 from 3-point range Saturday, not making its first one until well into the second half.

• There might be hope yet: Auburn went 15-for-21 from the free throw line.

• Not a great offensive night for Quantez Robertson, who finished with just three points. But he had a team-best seven assists and had four steals in his 32 minutes. When Waller, Reed and Co. are scoring the way they did, Auburn doesn't need hiim to shoulder too much of the offensive load.