Steady reserve big man and longtime Auburn veteran Dylan Cardwell has officially announced he will return to the Tigers for 2024-25 to use his additional year of eligibility via Instagram. Cardwell played double-digit minutes in 31 of 35 games this past season, with a season high of 24 minutes played in a win at Georgia. Cardwell averaged 5.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Tigers in 14.5 minutes per game as the backup center behind All-American Johni Broome. That was pretty much his role in the other three seasons at Auburn as well. In those first three years, 2021, 2022 and 2023, Ca…