🏀 Alabama fall short against Florida in SEC quarterfinals

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NEW ORLEANS — Alabama's JaMychal Green was terrific on Friday, finishing in the paint, grabbing rebounds, dishing out assists and generally being a huge pain for Florida.

There's just one free-throw attempt he'd like to have back.

The Crimson Tide lost 66-63 to the Gators in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals, failing to convert two chances to tie the game in the final seconds.

Green led Alabama with 22 points while Trevor Releford scored 12 and Trevor Lacey added 11.

Green had an opportunity to tie it with 20.3 seconds left but missed the second of two free-throw attempts.

“I knew I had to step up and make it,” Green said. “Unfortunately, it rimmed out.”


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Certainly can't fault Jamychal yesterday. He was a true warrior with 22 points, 11 boards and four assists. To dwell on the one he missed overlooks the eight that he made. He was the reason we were in the game.

It certainly was a tough loss, but we played awfully well. Unfortunately for us, so did the gators, and they were able to hit some contested threes at important times.

OT would have tilted in our favor. With Young fouled out and a true freshman on Green, and having four fouls himself, we would have done very well going inside.

A win would probably hve gotten us off the 8-9 line in the Big Dance, but for the first time in six years we are going. Looking forward to selection Sunday and next week.