If there is a trap game remaining on Auburn basketball's schedule, it's this week.

The Tigers (19-2, 7-1 SEC) are riding a three-game streak of lopsided wins, all of which featured a 50-point half, are in sole possession of first place in the SEC and moved up to No. 11 in the AP poll.

Ole Miss has lost three of its last four and Vanderbilt is tied for last in the SEC and has not won a road game.

The Rebels (11-10, 4-4 SEC) and Commodores (8-13, 2-6 SEC) are 13th and 14th in the SEC in Ken Pom's adjusted efficiency margin, respectively, compared to first-ranked Auburn, which is eighth nationally. However, Ole Miss is 76th and Vandy is 92nd nationally and both still have a net positive efficiency margin, which is a measure of the difference of a team's points per 100 possessions on offense and defense.

Bruce Pearl doesn't have any concerns about his team looking past its opponents this week, beginning Tuesday in Oxford (8 p.m. CT, SEC Network), where Ole Miss is undefeated in SEC play and Auburn hasn't won since 2008.

"Obviously with Ole Miss being undefeated at home and having the run that they've had against us, it's a tough matchup for us," Pearl said. "Then Vanderbilt, I've not beaten Vanderbilt since we were here at Auburn. They beat TCU in the Big XII/SEC Challenge.

"It'll go back to, we can win them all we can lose them all. It'll have less to do with us and more to do with sometimes the opponent. These teams are good enough to beat us regardless of looking ahead or looking back or whether success is affecting us."

The Tigers are not getting as caught up in their ranking in the polls, RPI or analytics as fans. The players are still carrying chips on their shoulders about the low preseason expectations they've already exceeded.

"Maybe other teams think we probably are the hunted, but we also feel like we're hunting as a team," point guard Jared Harper said. "We were supposed to be 4-14. We were supposed to not be in the position we're in now, but we are. We're not trying to be the hunted, you still want to be the hunter."

Both Pearl and players have spoken about the noticeable difference on the Plains among fans, on campus and around town, but it's not been a distraction.

"You can just tell that everybody around campus is super excited for how we're doing," Harper said. "We're just as excited and just knowing our hard work is paying off. Knowing that a lot of people before, they didn't come to basketball games, they would only go to football games. But we're starting to see a lot more students come to basketball games and they really enjoy it."

James Crepea is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCrepea.