Crimson Tide and Ducks set to square off for second consecutive season : ESPNU ` 5PM CT
The Alabama men's basketball team will close its two-game road trip with a contest at PAC 12 member No. 24/24 Oregon on Sunday at 5 p.m. CT (3 p.m. PT). It will mark the fourth time in the Tide's last five games that the team has played a contest away from home.
The Tide and Ducks will meet for the second consecutive year and the fourth time in series history on Sunday. Last season, Oregon came back from a 12-point halftime deficit to defeat Alabama 72-68 in the Vulcan Classic in Birmingham, Ala. Sunday's contest is the first time Alabama will play at Eugene, Ore.
Alabama is coming off a tough 77-68 defeat at Texas on Dec. 2. The Tide, who led for over 31 minutes of the game, held a 12-point lead at intermission, but was outscored by 21 in the second half, including a decisive 15-5 run over the last 3:59 that turned a 63-62 Alabama lead into the final score.
Sunday's game will be televised on ESPNU with Roy Philpot (play-by-play) and Brad Daugherty (analyst) on the call. Fans can listen to the radio broadcast on the Crimson Tide Sports Network as Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) will call all the action. Live stats for the contest can accessed through RollTide.com, while in-game updates and photos will be made available on Twitter on @AlabamaMBB.
HOW TO WATCH
RADIO: Crimson Tide Sports Network
TV: ESPNU
LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast® Systems - Events for University of Oregon
SOCIAL MEDIA: @AlabamaMBB
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
SCOUTING OREGON
• Head coach Dana Altman is in his seventh season at the helm of the Oregon men's basketball program. He owns a record of 161-66 (.709) during his time at UO, and is 571-309 (.649) in 28 years of being a head coach at the Division I level. Last season, Altman became just the third coach in league history to win Coach of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons joining Stanford's Mike Montgomery (2003, 2004) and Arizona's Lute Olson (1988, 1989 and 1993, 1994).
• Oregon comes into Sunday's contest boasting a 29-game winning streak at Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks' streak currently ranks fourth in the nation and is the longest string of home wins in UO history. Oregon last dropped a home game Jan. 8, 2015 (Arizona, 80-62).
• The Ducks are 97-13 (.882) all-time at Matthew Knight Arena since the building opened in 2011, and owns a 47-2 all-time mark in non-conference games. Oregon's 79-73 loss to Ole Miss in 2014-15 was just the second non-conference home defeat while playing at Matthew Knight Arena. The other time Oregon lost a non-conference game at MKA was on Dec. 18, 2011, when Virginia defeated the Ducks, 67-54. UO won 28 non-conference games in a row at MKA between the two losses.
• For 2016-17, Oregon returned 69 percent of its scoring, 66 percent of its rebounding, 71 percent of its assists, 58 percent of its steals and 85 percent of its blocked shots from last season. The Ducks return seven letterwinners and four starters from last year's team that finished 31-7 and reached the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.
• OREGON PROBABLE STARTERS (based off previous game): Guards: Tyler Dorsey (13.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg, .422 3FG%), Dylan Ennis (10.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 2.9 apg), Payton Pritchard (7.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.9 apg). Forwards: Jordan Bell (9.4 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 2.7 bpg), Chris Boucher (13.6 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 3.0 bpg).
ALABAMA COMPETING IN 104TH SEASON OF BASKETBALL
• Alabama has begun its 104th season of basketball in 2016-17.
• The Tide has an all-time record of 1,622-1,002-1 (.618), which includes a 765-588 (.565) record in SEC play.
• Alabama ranks second in the SEC in league victories and all-time winning percentage.
• UA has made 33 NCAA (19) or NIT (14) appearances and has won seven SEC regular-season titles and six SEC Tournament championships.
SCOUTING ALABAMA
• Alabama will play its second consecutive true road game when it travels to Eugene, Ore., to take on the No. 24/24 Oregon Ducks on Sunday afternoon. It marks the fourth time in the Tide's last five games that it will play away from Tuscaloosa. Alabama last played on Dec. 2 when it fell at Texas, 77-68.
• The Tide has just two players who average in double figures, but boast seven who are averaging more the five points a game. Freshman Braxton Key leads the Tide at 10.4 ppg, while redshirt freshman Dazon Ingram is second at 10.3 ppg. Graduate senior Corban Collins is third on the team, averaging 8.9 points.
• Ingram ranks tops on the team in field goal percentage (.595), assists (4.4 apg), steals (1.4 spg) and minutes (27.3). Meanwhile, Key leads the squad in three-point shooting (.500).
• Sophomore center Donta Hall tops the team with 5.7 rebounds per game, while Ingram and Key both rank second at 4.0 rebounds per game. Senior center Jimmie Taylor averages a team-best 1.9 blocks per game, while also contributing 3.9 points and 2.9 rebounds per contest.
• As a team, Alabama is outscoring the competiton by 6.9 points per game (69.3-62.4) and outrebounding opponents by 1.0 rebounds per game (35.0-34.0). The Tide is shooting .428 from the field and .364 from beyond the arc as a team.
ALABAMA-TEXAS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
• What Lost The Game For UA: Alabama led by 12 points (38-26) at intermission, but allowed Texas to go off for 51 points in the second half, outscoring the Tide 51-30 over the final 20 minutes. Alabama still had a chance to win down the stretch. With the Tide leading by one point, 63-62, with 3:59 left, a three-pointer by UT's Jacob Young jump-started a 15-5 run over the next 3:38 to result in the final score.
• The Difference Maker: Texas guard and leading scorer Tevin Mack was held scoreless in the first half, going 0-of-5 from the floor and 0-of-2 from beyond the arc. However, Mack connected on 5-of-7 shots and hit his only three-point attempt in the second half to finish with 11 points.
• The Wow Stat: Texas made more free throws (22) than Alabama attempted (18). In fact, the Longhorns' Kerwin Roach Jr. nearly equaled the Tide's team total at the free throw line on his own. Roach connected on 12-of-16 free throws for the game, making two more free throws in two fewer attempts than Alabama had as a team (10-of-18).
THE TIDE AGAINST THE TOP 25
• Alabama will play its first top-25 team this season when it takes on the No. 24/24 Oregon Ducks on Sunday afternoon in Eugene, Ore.
• Under head coach Avery Johnson, Alabama owns a record of 4-4 when playing top-25 teams. The four wins over nationally-ranked teams a year ago were the most wins over ranked opponents in a single season since the 2001-02 campaign.
• Alabama was one of just 15 teams from across the nation last year who boasted at least four victories during the regular season against teams ranked in the Associated Press' top 25.
• The last time Alabama defeated a ranked opponent in a true road game came on Feb. 21, 2004, when the Tide upended then-No. 4 Mississippi State, 77-73, in Starkville, Miss.
• The Tide's last win over a top-25 team came when it captured a 63-62 victory over then-No. 15 Texas A&M on Feb. 15, 2016.
BENCH SUPPORT
• The Alabama bench has been a weapon through the Tide's opening seven contests, highlighted by the reserves scoring 59 of the team's 77 points in a 77-59 win over Ball State on Nov. 18.
• The 59 points scored by the bench marked the most scored by any Tide reserve group this century. In fact, it was the most points scored by Alabama's reserves since going for 59 points in a 95-48 victory over Florida A&M on Dec. 17, 1994.
• Alabama's bench outscored Charleston Southern's reserves, 46-20. The Tide bench has now outscored its counterparts in six of its first seven games this season.
• For the year, Alabama's reserves has outscored its counterpart by a total margin of 231-109. That averages out to +17.4 points per game (33.0-15.6).
NEWCOMERS MAKING AN IMPACT
• Including Dazon Ingram who is a redshirt freshman, the Crimson Tide welcomed seven newcomers who are currently playing in Avery Johnson's 11-man rotation to begin the season
• The team's top three scorers and five of the top seven were either redshirts or were not on the team a year ago.
• The seven newcomers are combining to average 50.1 of Alabama's 69.3 points per game – approximately 72 percent of the team's total scoring output.
• The group is also dishing out 80 percent of the Tide's assists (70 of the team's 87 total assists) and pulling down 52 percent of the team's boards (18.2 of UA's 35.0 total rebounding average).
The Alabama men's basketball team will close its two-game road trip with a contest at PAC 12 member No. 24/24 Oregon on Sunday at 5 p.m. CT (3 p.m. PT). It will mark the fourth time in the Tide's last five games that the team has played a contest away from home.
The Tide and Ducks will meet for the second consecutive year and the fourth time in series history on Sunday. Last season, Oregon came back from a 12-point halftime deficit to defeat Alabama 72-68 in the Vulcan Classic in Birmingham, Ala. Sunday's contest is the first time Alabama will play at Eugene, Ore.
Alabama is coming off a tough 77-68 defeat at Texas on Dec. 2. The Tide, who led for over 31 minutes of the game, held a 12-point lead at intermission, but was outscored by 21 in the second half, including a decisive 15-5 run over the last 3:59 that turned a 63-62 Alabama lead into the final score.
Sunday's game will be televised on ESPNU with Roy Philpot (play-by-play) and Brad Daugherty (analyst) on the call. Fans can listen to the radio broadcast on the Crimson Tide Sports Network as Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) will call all the action. Live stats for the contest can accessed through RollTide.com, while in-game updates and photos will be made available on Twitter on @AlabamaMBB.
HOW TO WATCH
RADIO: Crimson Tide Sports Network
TV: ESPNU
LIVE STATS: StatBroadcast® Systems - Events for University of Oregon
SOCIAL MEDIA: @AlabamaMBB
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Alabama is led on the year by freshman Braxton Key, who tops the team in scoring (10.4 ppg) and three-point shooting (.500, 9-of-18), while ranking second in rebounding (4.0). Redshirt freshman Dazon Ingram is second on the team in scoring (10.3 ppg), while leading UA in assists (4.4), steals (1.4) and minutes (27.3) per game, and is tied with Key in rebounding at 4.0 rpg.
- The Alabama bench has been a strength of this year's team. Twice this season, the Tide's reserves have equaled the total scoring output of the opposition. First, the UA reserves scored 59 points in a 77-59 victory over Ball State on Nov. 18. Most recently, Alabama's bench put up 46 points in a 76-46 win over Charleston Southern on Nov. 29.
- Alabama will travel 2,490 miles when it takes on Oregon on Sunday afternoon. The last time the Tide travelled over 2,000 miles for a road game came on Dec. 28, 2013 at UCLA (2,021 miles).
- Alabama is a perfect 4-0 when holding teams to less than 60 points, but falls to 0-3 when allowing the opposition to score more than 60.
- Alabama's bench is averaging 33.0 points a game and outscoring its counterparts by an average of 17.4 points per contest (33.0-15.6)
- Alabama ranks 27th in the nation in fewest turnovers (86) and is 38th nationally in most turnovers forced (115) (as of Dec. 8).
- Alabama will return to Coleman Coliseum for just the second time in nearly a month when it welcomes USC Upstate on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. CT. That game begins a stretch of five of the next six contests under the arched roof.
SCOUTING OREGON
• Head coach Dana Altman is in his seventh season at the helm of the Oregon men's basketball program. He owns a record of 161-66 (.709) during his time at UO, and is 571-309 (.649) in 28 years of being a head coach at the Division I level. Last season, Altman became just the third coach in league history to win Coach of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons joining Stanford's Mike Montgomery (2003, 2004) and Arizona's Lute Olson (1988, 1989 and 1993, 1994).
• Oregon comes into Sunday's contest boasting a 29-game winning streak at Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks' streak currently ranks fourth in the nation and is the longest string of home wins in UO history. Oregon last dropped a home game Jan. 8, 2015 (Arizona, 80-62).
• The Ducks are 97-13 (.882) all-time at Matthew Knight Arena since the building opened in 2011, and owns a 47-2 all-time mark in non-conference games. Oregon's 79-73 loss to Ole Miss in 2014-15 was just the second non-conference home defeat while playing at Matthew Knight Arena. The other time Oregon lost a non-conference game at MKA was on Dec. 18, 2011, when Virginia defeated the Ducks, 67-54. UO won 28 non-conference games in a row at MKA between the two losses.
• For 2016-17, Oregon returned 69 percent of its scoring, 66 percent of its rebounding, 71 percent of its assists, 58 percent of its steals and 85 percent of its blocked shots from last season. The Ducks return seven letterwinners and four starters from last year's team that finished 31-7 and reached the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.
• OREGON PROBABLE STARTERS (based off previous game): Guards: Tyler Dorsey (13.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg, .422 3FG%), Dylan Ennis (10.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 2.9 apg), Payton Pritchard (7.6 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.9 apg). Forwards: Jordan Bell (9.4 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 2.7 bpg), Chris Boucher (13.6 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 3.0 bpg).
ALABAMA COMPETING IN 104TH SEASON OF BASKETBALL
• Alabama has begun its 104th season of basketball in 2016-17.
• The Tide has an all-time record of 1,622-1,002-1 (.618), which includes a 765-588 (.565) record in SEC play.
• Alabama ranks second in the SEC in league victories and all-time winning percentage.
• UA has made 33 NCAA (19) or NIT (14) appearances and has won seven SEC regular-season titles and six SEC Tournament championships.
SCOUTING ALABAMA
• Alabama will play its second consecutive true road game when it travels to Eugene, Ore., to take on the No. 24/24 Oregon Ducks on Sunday afternoon. It marks the fourth time in the Tide's last five games that it will play away from Tuscaloosa. Alabama last played on Dec. 2 when it fell at Texas, 77-68.
• The Tide has just two players who average in double figures, but boast seven who are averaging more the five points a game. Freshman Braxton Key leads the Tide at 10.4 ppg, while redshirt freshman Dazon Ingram is second at 10.3 ppg. Graduate senior Corban Collins is third on the team, averaging 8.9 points.
• Ingram ranks tops on the team in field goal percentage (.595), assists (4.4 apg), steals (1.4 spg) and minutes (27.3). Meanwhile, Key leads the squad in three-point shooting (.500).
• Sophomore center Donta Hall tops the team with 5.7 rebounds per game, while Ingram and Key both rank second at 4.0 rebounds per game. Senior center Jimmie Taylor averages a team-best 1.9 blocks per game, while also contributing 3.9 points and 2.9 rebounds per contest.
• As a team, Alabama is outscoring the competiton by 6.9 points per game (69.3-62.4) and outrebounding opponents by 1.0 rebounds per game (35.0-34.0). The Tide is shooting .428 from the field and .364 from beyond the arc as a team.
ALABAMA-TEXAS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
• What Lost The Game For UA: Alabama led by 12 points (38-26) at intermission, but allowed Texas to go off for 51 points in the second half, outscoring the Tide 51-30 over the final 20 minutes. Alabama still had a chance to win down the stretch. With the Tide leading by one point, 63-62, with 3:59 left, a three-pointer by UT's Jacob Young jump-started a 15-5 run over the next 3:38 to result in the final score.
• The Difference Maker: Texas guard and leading scorer Tevin Mack was held scoreless in the first half, going 0-of-5 from the floor and 0-of-2 from beyond the arc. However, Mack connected on 5-of-7 shots and hit his only three-point attempt in the second half to finish with 11 points.
• The Wow Stat: Texas made more free throws (22) than Alabama attempted (18). In fact, the Longhorns' Kerwin Roach Jr. nearly equaled the Tide's team total at the free throw line on his own. Roach connected on 12-of-16 free throws for the game, making two more free throws in two fewer attempts than Alabama had as a team (10-of-18).
THE TIDE AGAINST THE TOP 25
• Alabama will play its first top-25 team this season when it takes on the No. 24/24 Oregon Ducks on Sunday afternoon in Eugene, Ore.
• Under head coach Avery Johnson, Alabama owns a record of 4-4 when playing top-25 teams. The four wins over nationally-ranked teams a year ago were the most wins over ranked opponents in a single season since the 2001-02 campaign.
• Alabama was one of just 15 teams from across the nation last year who boasted at least four victories during the regular season against teams ranked in the Associated Press' top 25.
• The last time Alabama defeated a ranked opponent in a true road game came on Feb. 21, 2004, when the Tide upended then-No. 4 Mississippi State, 77-73, in Starkville, Miss.
• The Tide's last win over a top-25 team came when it captured a 63-62 victory over then-No. 15 Texas A&M on Feb. 15, 2016.
BENCH SUPPORT
• The Alabama bench has been a weapon through the Tide's opening seven contests, highlighted by the reserves scoring 59 of the team's 77 points in a 77-59 win over Ball State on Nov. 18.
• The 59 points scored by the bench marked the most scored by any Tide reserve group this century. In fact, it was the most points scored by Alabama's reserves since going for 59 points in a 95-48 victory over Florida A&M on Dec. 17, 1994.
• Alabama's bench outscored Charleston Southern's reserves, 46-20. The Tide bench has now outscored its counterparts in six of its first seven games this season.
• For the year, Alabama's reserves has outscored its counterpart by a total margin of 231-109. That averages out to +17.4 points per game (33.0-15.6).
NEWCOMERS MAKING AN IMPACT
• Including Dazon Ingram who is a redshirt freshman, the Crimson Tide welcomed seven newcomers who are currently playing in Avery Johnson's 11-man rotation to begin the season
• The team's top three scorers and five of the top seven were either redshirts or were not on the team a year ago.
• The seven newcomers are combining to average 50.1 of Alabama's 69.3 points per game – approximately 72 percent of the team's total scoring output.
• The group is also dishing out 80 percent of the Tide's assists (70 of the team's 87 total assists) and pulling down 52 percent of the team's boards (18.2 of UA's 35.0 total rebounding average).
