It didn’t take Johni Broome and Jaylin Williams long to come up with it.

“You want me to tell them our nickname?,” Broome asked Williams during their postgame press conference Wednesday night.

Instead, the tandem agreed they’d both reveal their nickname on the count of three.

“One… two… three… Splash Bros,” they both said, causing Auburn’s media room to erupt with laughter.

While the tandem’s nickname wasn’t the most original considering it’s already been claimed by Golden State Warriors’ guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, it certainly fit Broome and Williams’ performances on Wednesday night as they led No. 13 Auburn to a lopsided 101-61 win over No. 11 South Carolina from Auburn’s Neville Arena.

Together, Broome and Williams, who make up Auburn’s starting frontcourt, combined for 44 points against South Carolina.

And while it would generally be safe to assume the Tigers’ pair of big men scored a majority of those points in the paint, such wasn’t the case Wednesday night.

Against the Gamecocks, Broome and Williams combined for nine 3-pointers after a 5-for-7 3-point shooting effort from Williams and a 4-for-5 3-point shooting effort from Broome, which was the first time in his career he hit four 3-pointers in one game.

“They were kinda giving us a little bit of space. It was that point where you shoot it or pass it,” Broome said of he and Williams’ success from behind the arc against the Gamecocks. “It’s kinda awkward: You’re open, but you’re not really open. But once you see the first one go in, you get that confidence, and you get your coaches and teammates’ confidence going. It was just going to the hot hand and just making plays to help win the game.”

Against South Carolina, the hot hands of Broome and Williams definitely played a major role in helping Auburn pick apart the Gamecocks, who entered the night sitting atop the SEC standings.

Also scoring from beyond the arc for the Tigers was KD Johnson and Chaney Johnson, who added three makes from deep to bring Auburn’s tally to 12 made 3-pointers.

Meanwhile, South Carolina went just 3-for-15 from beyond the 3-point line.

“They were really good and we weren’t that good. That’s what happens when you have that combination,” South Carolina head coach Lamont Paris said. “They played really well. They generated some good shots — sometimes on their own, sometimes on some errors that we made. But they went in. Those shots went in.”

The Tigers hit 61% of the time from the 3-pont line on Wednesday night and 60% of the time from the field — two efficient marks that made for season-highs.

“When you’ve got nine 3-balls from your starting front court, it kinda makes everything you might try to do offensively work, right?,” Pearl said. “That makes you hard to guard. It makes you hard to guard because what do you do? If you don’t switch, we’re going to get those shots. And if you do switch, we’re going to have mismatches on the inside. It’s not rocket science.”

The shooting efficiency of Auburn’s frontcourt played a major role in what Pearl painted to be a must-win for the Tigers earlier this week, should they want to compete for the SEC regular season title.

And while Auburn secured that win in lopsided fashion Wednesday night, there was a small drawback.

“There are picks and rolls and there are picks and pops. And now after Johni popped a few, I’m never going to get him to roll (inside to the basket),” Pearl joked.