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AUBURN, Ala. -- The Auburn Tigers are running wild again, this time with a mostly dropback passer at quarterback and two tailbacks who were virtual unknowns outside the state coming into the season.The 15th-ranked Tigers, with no Cam Newton or Nick Marshall to bulldoze or dart past defenders, have resurrected their ground game and, in the process, their season with a four-game winning streak .Even without tailback Kerryon Johnson, Auburn piled up 543 rushing yards in a 56-3 win over Arkansas , a record for a Southeastern Conference game. Now, Auburn ranks third nationally in rushing offense with numbers rivaling the 2013 offense led by the mobile quarterback Marshall and Heisman Trophy finalist Tre Mason.That group made the national championship game by becoming the first SEC team to lead the nation in rushing, averaging 328.3 yards and having four players with 600-plus yards. This Auburn team is averaging 302.9 yards on the ground.Johnson is expected to return from an ankle injury Saturday night against Mississippi.Quarterback Sean White and backup John Franklin III have both made some plays on the ground but nothing like Marshall or Newton, who won the Heisman in leading the 2010 team to a national title.Whoever our quarterback is, we try to design the offense around their strengths, Malzahn said. There arent a whole lot of Nick Marshalls running around out there. He was a special player.The current ground attack has mostly been built on tailbacks Johnson and Kamryn Pettway. Pettway was moved from H-back in the spring and didnt log a carry last season or in the opener.With Johnson out with an ankle injury, the 240-pounder has run 66 times for 361 yards and five touchdowns against Mississippi State and Arkansas. Hes ranked 12th nationally and leads the SEC in rushing yards per game, gaining 697 yards in six outings.I havent seen a running back like that since like Jerome Bettis, Auburn receiver Tony Stevens said. Thats who he reminds of, Jerome Bettis. The way he just cuts and runs you over. So you never know what youre going to get when you go head up with him.Johnson, also a sophomore, is 42nd nationally and sixth in the SEC in rushing with 538 yards.Tailback was one of the teams biggest question marks entering the season. Last years top three rushers -- Peyton Barber (early draft entry), Jovon Robinson (dismissal) and Roc Thomas (transfer) -- were no longer on the team for various reasons.That left Johnson, often used in a Wildcat role as a freshman, and Pettway. Depth has come from players like freshman Kam Martin, a former Baylor signee, and converted wide receiver Stanton Truitt. Truitt and freshman receiver Eli Stove both ran for long touchdowns against the Razorbacks, with Stoves a 78-yarder on the opening play.One of the big questions this year coming into the season was our running back depth, Malzahn said. I think it was a really good thing moving forward that we had the guys that we had step up. They did a super job running the football and protecting the football, so we definitely have some depth to that position.Seven Auburn players have rushed for 100-plus yards, including White and Franklin. The Tigers are averaging 106.5 more rushing yards than last season even minus that teams top three runners.Now, the Tigers are at least running White enough to make defenses wary, and Franklin has been almost exclusively used as a runner.If you keep it every now and then, it really changes things, Malzahn said. 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While hell be dialed in to that tournament on a course he loves, you can forgive him if his eyes glance down the calendar just a bit, towards April.Ladder positions meant little to the last-placed Adelaide 36ers in Monday nights stunning 91-85 upset of the top-ranked Sydney Kings at Qudos Bank Arena.Down by a point at three-quarter time, the Sixers overpowered the Kings in crunch time to claim their fifth win of the season.The victory completed a perfect round eight for Adelaide after last Thursdays convincing road win over Brisbane.It was the exact opposite for Sydney, with Mondays loss coming after Saturdays dramatic last-second road loss to Melbourne United.Daniel Johnson led Adelaide with 22 points and American guard Jerome Randle added 20.Sydneys Kevin Lisch finished with a game-high 25 and Brad Newley had 16.The Kings remain on top of the table with an 8-6 record, while the Sixers are 5-6.Sydney built a 25-20 quarter-time lead after hitting a sizzling 63 percent of their shots, but the 36ers didnt blink, fighting back to be up 45-44 at halftime.Lisch had already put together an impressive stat line of 15 points, seven rebounds and five assists, while Adelaide relied on a more balanced scoring spread.The closeness of the first half was underlined by a whopping 15 lead changes and four ties.The end-to-end scoring slowed in the third period, bbut the margin remained just as close, as Sydney took a precarious 67-66 lead into the final quarter.dddddddddddddelaide silenced the home crowd in the fourth quarter and were deserved winners.The Kings will make good use of a full weeks break before taking on the surging Illawarra Hawks in Wollongong next Monday, while the 36ers host the Perth Wildcats this Friday.The first quarter was a bit alarming and it looked like it was going to be a tough night, but we stuck with it and its a testament to these guys, Adelaide coach Joey Wright said.We had four rookies on the court for the first five minutes of the fourth quarter and they played the best defence of any group we had out there all night.Sydney coach Andrew Gaze said the Sixers were outstanding.They stuck to their guns and weathered the storm. They made some huge plays and thoroughly deserved their win, he said. Mondays game was almost certainly the last in a Kings uniform for American import Steve Blake. The former Los Angeles Lakers guard has been granted indefinite leave to return to the US on compassionate grounds. ' ' '