🏀 Alabama hoping to land in NCAA Tournament

[By Alex Byington Sports]

TUSCALOOSA — A month ago, in the midst of some stunning road wins at Florida and LSU, Alabama was getting strong NCAA tournament consideration...

First-year Alabama head coach Avery Johnson once again made his team’s case for being one of the 68 teams to earn NCAA Tournament bids after the 85-59 loss to Kentucky. He pointed to wins against four ranked teams this season, including against then-ranked Wichita State, Notre Dame, South Carolina and SEC co-champion Texas A&M — three of which came on the road.

“I’ll put our resume up against any team in the country or any of those teams that’s on the bubble watch,” Johnson said Friday evening.

“I really love our resume. So whether it’s NCAA Tournament, NIT, or whatever it is, I’m hoping that we can make it to some postseason tournament.”

With the recent run of losses, the Tide (18-14, 9-9 SEC) quickly fell from among the “final four in” to completely off the NCAA Tournament bubble, according to most of the Internet prognosticators, including ESPN.

“For us to do what we’ve done this year has been (nothing) short of amazing in so many ways,” Johnson said. “And that’s not an excuse, that’s just the facts. The numbers don’t lie.”​

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