The 20th-ranked Auburn women’s basketball team (2-0) returns to action today as the Tigers travel to Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga., for a 6 p.m. game.

Forgive Nell Fortner for needing a few extra moments to collect her thoughts after Monday night’s home-opening win over Temple.

Auburn hit the fast-forward button Friday and had just about everyone out of sorts.

HUNTSVILLE — Auburn’s DeWanna Bonner tallied 25 points, eight rebounds and six steals as the No. 20 Auburn (1-0) women’s basketball team cruised to a 91-53 win over Alabama A&M (0-1) in its season opener.

Sherell Hobbs should have followed her grandmother’s advice.

The Auburn women’s basketball team inked four recruits for the 2009-10 season Wednesday, while the men’s team is set to sign four as well.

Senior DeWanna Bonner picked up her first double-double of the season, putting up 30 points and 10 rebounds, as the No. 20 Auburn women’s basketball team kick-started the 2008-09 season with a 103-37 exhibition win over the Anderson University Trojans in Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum on Sunday afternoon.

Nell Fortner isn’t telling.

Auburn junior Candace Schepperle has been named the Southeastern Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week, league officials announced on Thursday.

Preseason honors continued for the Auburn women’s basketball team, as senior DeWanna Bonner was chosen as the SEC Preseason Player of the Year by the league’s coaches and named to the Wooden Award Watch List, and the team was picked third in the conference by the SEC coaches.

Freshman Sierra “CeCe” Sims has left the Auburn women’s basketball team.