Bruce Pearl likes to talk about making history. He has contributed his fair share of it since taking over at Auburn — from the program’s first-ever Final Four appearance in 2019 to its first-ever No. 1 ranking in the AP poll last season, and everything in between.

On Monday, Pearl’s team again made history when the Week 12 AP poll was released. For the 31st week in a row, Auburn basketball was ranked in the AP top 25, setting a new program record for consecutive appearances in the rankings. Auburn checked in at No. 15 in the latest poll, up one spot from No. 16 in last week’s poll.

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Auburn’s previous longest string of appearance in the AP poll was from Dec. 14, 1998, to Feb. 29, 2000. The current streak began with last season’s preseason top 25, when the program was ranked 22nd heading into the 2021-22 campaign. The Tigers climbed as high as No. 1 in the nation — spending three weeks atop the poll last season — and haven’t been ranked lower than 23rd, spending a week there following a road loss at USC in December that marked the team’s second defeat in three games.

The Tigers’ streak of consecutive appearances was assured after another impressive week on the court from Pearl’s team. Auburn took care of business on the road twice last week, with wire-to-wire double-digit wins at LSU and at South Carolina. It marked the first time since 1967 that Auburn won consecutive conference games on the road by double digits.

Auburn defeated LSU, 67-49, last Wednesday in Baton Rouge, La. It then turned around and beat South Carolina, 81-66, in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday afternoon.

Auburn (16-3, 6-1) has now won five consecutive SEC games since its lone setback in conference play at Georgia earlier this month. The team will host Texas A&M on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Neville Arena, where it will put the nation’s longest active home winning streak (28 games) on the line. That will be followed by a break in league action this weekend, when it travels to West Virginia to take on the Mountaineers in the Big 12/SEC Challenge on Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.

Auburn was one of three teams ranked in the Week 12 AP poll, joining No. 2 Alabama and No. 4 Tennessee. The Tigers are also 23rd in the NCAA’s NET rankings and sit at 16th in KenPom.

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.