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No. 4/5 Alabama Travels to Louisiana to Face the Tigers - University of Alabama Athletics
No. 4/5 Alabama men's basketball faces LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Saturday (3 p.m. CT) as the Crimson Tide look to improve to 10-0 in the SEC.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – No. 4/5 Alabama men's basketball faces LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Saturday (3 p.m. CT) as the Crimson Tide look to improve to 10-0 in the SEC for the second time under Head Coach Nate Oats and third time since the 1956-66 season (Alabama finished the year with a perfect 14-0 record).
Over recent history the Tigers and Crimson Tide have played close ball games, with the three of the last four contests (Alabama leads 3-1) decided by three points or less. Two of the best in the SEC will square off as Alabama's Brandon Miller and LSU's KJ Williams were both named to the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List.
The Broadcast
Saturday's game is set for a 3 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on ESPNU with Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play) and Daymeon Fishback (analyst) on the call.The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.
Notes You Need To Know
- On Feb. 3, 2023 Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats received a contract extension to keep him in charge of the Crimson Tide basketball program through March 14, 2029
- Alabama's is looking to improve to 10-0 in SEC play for the third time in program history
- Alabama's 57-point win over Vanderbilt on Tuesday was the largest win by a Power 5 team over another Power 5 team since March 3, 2008 (Kansas beat Texas Tech 109-51)
- Alabama has six Quad 1 wins this season, which is tied for sixth-most in the country
- The Tide is one of six teams and the only Power 5 team left this season with an unbeaten record in conference play
- Alabama is 14-12 against AP Top 25 teams during Nate Oats' tenure
- The Crimson Tide is one of five schools (UConn, UCLA., Houston and Purdue) to rank in the top-20 in both defense adjusted efficiency (No. 6) and in offense adjusted efficiency (No. 17) according to KenPom
- Alabama has posted five wins over top-25 opponents in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history, going 10-5 over the span
- Over the last three contests UA's bench is averaging 34.5 points per game
- Brandon Miller is averaging 19.2 points per game, the most by any freshman in the country and No. 36 overall
- Miller is the only player in Division I to score 420 points, record 175 rebounds and make 70 three-pointers this season
- Miller is shooting .445 percent from three-point range, which ranks No. 12 in Division I
- Miller is one of seven players in Division I, the only player in the SEC and the only freshman in the country that has scored 420 points and recorded 175 rebounds this season
About LSU
- LSU super senior forward KJ Williams was one of 50 college basketball players named to the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List.
- Williams is averaging 17.09 points per game, which ranks No. 3 in the SEC, along with 7.5 rebounds per game (No. 7)
- Williams has made an SEC-best 51 field goals this season, putting him at No. 51 in the nation
- LSU's Williams and Alabama's Brandon Miller are two of four players in the SEC to rank in the top-seven in both points per game and rebounds per game this season
- Both the Tigers and Crimson Tide rank in the top-five in the SEC in three-point field goal percentage this season as LSU ranks No. 5 in the conference (.333 percent) while Alabama ranks No. 3 (.344 percent)
- Three of the last four Alabama-LSU matchups have been decided by three points or less (Alabama is 2-1 in those matchups)
- The last time Alabama defeated LSU at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center was on Jan. 19. 2021, as the Tide set the SEC record for most three-pointers made in a game, draining 23 three-pointers in Alabama's 105-75 victory.
Pretty amazing how bad they've been... they won their first SEC game against Arkansas, then lost the next one to Kentucky by 3. After that, they went off the cliff...
League loses:
69-56
67-56
106-66
67-49
77-56
60-40
87-77
Only 1 game within 10 points.
This game needs to be another statement game for Bama. We need to be firing on all cylinders like we did against Vanderbilt, especially on the defensive end.
LSU is pretty abysmal on offense. If Alabama makes them play at their pace, we'll win convincingly.
Red Stick?
Baton Rouge translation from French = Baton (stick) Rouge (Red).
We lost last season in OT. You mean two years ago?
