Auburn men’s basketball got to flex its muscles Wednesday night.

The Tigers beat Ole Miss 106-76, completing a season sweep over the Rebels in dominating fashion. It was a game where Auburn replicated its impressive offensive output from the first matchup, never in danger of giving up control.

Wednesday’s win improves Auburn to 26-2 on the season and 14-1 in Southeastern Conference play.

Here are three takeaways from Auburn’s win over Ole Miss:

Fast start

In many of Auburn’s blowout wins during non-conference play, the Tigers started fast and never looked back, often leaving teams with an insurmountable deficit before halftime.

In recent games, that’s been hard to come by, mainly due to Auburn’s cold shooting at home in SEC play. Against Ole Miss, the beginning of the game looked a lot like many of Auburn’s home non-conference wins.

Auburn made its first six shots from the field and put 29 points on the board before the first half was even at its midway point. The Tigers started the game on a 29-9 run, and the deficit already felt too large to come back from before the Rebels could even ease into the game.

The Tigers finished the half with 50 points, the most they’ve scored since putting 52 on Richmond in the first 20 minutes of a win back on Dec. 8. It ended up being too much for the Rebels to come back from, despite making a run late in the first half.

Auburn followed up that fast start by scoring 56 more points in the second half, making it the Tigers’ highest-scoring game of the season.

Hot shooting is back

After having some recent struggles with 3-point shooting at home, Auburn had one of its hottest shooting nights of the season Wednesday.

The Tigers shot 52.4% from 3, its best percentage of the season from long range. That helped Auburn get out to a big lead early in the game and kept Ole Miss at arm’s length whenever the Rebels made a run.

Auburn started the game shooting 6-for-8 from 3, putting the Tigers at a rather ridiculous 75% in the first 20 minutes. Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly were behind most of it early on, combining for five first-half 3-pointers.

It kept going in the second half after a slow start, with Baker-Mazara continuing to lead the way. He finished the game with 22 points, a new season high.

In position

With Auburn’s win over Ole Miss, the Tigers can now clinch a share of the SEC regular season title against Kentucky Saturday afternoon.

Wednesday’s win was Auburn’s fifth in a row and third of a three-game home stretch. Those games against Arkansas, Georgia and Ole Miss seemed like relatively easy ones at home, but the games proved otherwise.

Arkansas and Georgia both pushed Auburn and had chances to win late. While that may have looked bad on Auburn in the moment, both teams pulled upsets in their next games, with Arkansas returning home to beat Missouri and Georgia returning home to beat No. 3 Florida, a team that beat Auburn in Neville Arena.

Against Ole Miss — a team having a better season than both Arkansas and Georgia — Auburn dominated. The game was never in doubt, and Auburn looked like the best team in the country for all 40 minutes.

That now sets up a chance for the Tigers to win at least a share of the conference, punctuating a dominant run through arguably the deepest conference in college basketball history.

Peter Rauterkus covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @peter_rauterkus or email him at prauterkus@al.com