No. 4/4 Alabama Returns to Coleman Coliseum to Face LSU - University of Alabama Athletics
Alabama men's basketball will look to improve to 5-0 in Southeastern Conference play, as the Crimson Tide faces LSU at Coleman Coliseum.
rolltide.com
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama men's basketball will look to improve to 5-0 in Southeastern Conference play, as the Crimson Tide faces LSU at Coleman Coliseum. The Tide is looking to improve to 9-0 at home this season and for the first time since the 2014-15 season (won first 10 home games), when the teams square off Saturday at 3 p.m. CT.
The Alabama-LSU matchup features two of the best scorers in the conference, as LSU's KJ Williams ranks No. 2 in the SEC, averaging 18.5 points per game, behind Alabama's Brandon Miller scoring a league-best 18.8 points per contest.
The Broadcast
Saturday's game is set for a 3 p.m. tipoff and will be aired on ESPN with Tom Hart (play-by-play) and Jimmy Dykes (analyst) on the call.The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play), Bryan Passink (analyst) and Roger Hoover (sideline) 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
- Alabama has five Quad 1 wins this season, which is tied for second-most in the country behind Purdue (6 wins)
- Alabama is looking to improve to 5-0 in SEC play for the first time since 2020-21 and second time since the 1986-87 season
- Alabama is ranked No. 4 in the AP Top-25 Poll for the second time this season, the highest AP ranking since 2006-07 (Ranked No. 4)
- After recording 16.9 turnovers per game during non-conference play, the Tide is now averaging just 12.0 turnovers during SEC games
- Alabama is 14-12 against AP Top 25 teams during Nate Oats' tenure
- 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
- Miller is averaging 18.8 points per game, the most by any freshman in the country and No. 41 overall
- Miller is the only freshman in the country to rank in the top 75 in points and rebounds per game (No. 75)
- Miller is one of 10 players in Division I, the only player in the SEC and the only freshman in the country that has scored 300 points and recorded 130 rebounds this season
- Noah Clowney ranks No. 69 in the country at 8.3 rebounds per game, which is third-best among freshman in the country
About LSU
- The media panel of regional and national media picked the Tigers eighth in the preseason standings poll announced at SEC Tipoff in October
- Coach Matt McMahon has now won 43-of-50 games dating back to the start of the 2021-22 season. McMahon was 31-3 last year at Murray State and is 12-4 this year at LSU.
- McMahon won the last 19-of-22 conference games he has coached entering the weekend, going 18-0 last year at Murray State in the OVC and 1-3 in the SEC this season to date. In his eight years as a head coach, McMahon is 94-34 in conference games.
- In the four conference games, LSU opponents have a 140-100 advantage in points in the paint. Texas A&M kept LSU out of the paint in the game on Jan. 7, outscoring LSU 42-10. LSU did have the advantage in the paint in the game the Tigers won over Arkansas (12/28), 40-36.
- This will be the first time LSU is set to play four consecutive games in the SEC regular season against ranked opponents since the 1967-68 season (Pete Maravich's sophomore season) when the Tigers lost to No. 9 Kentucky (121-95), No. 7 Vanderbilt (99-91), at No. 10 Kentucky (109-96) and No. 6 Tennessee (87-67)
- The last time the Tigers faced four straight ranked opponents at any time during the season was in the 1986 run to the NCAA Final Four. LSU defeated No. 12 Memphis (83-81), No. 6 Georgia Tech (70-64), No. 3 Kentucky (59-57) and lost to No. 7 Louisville in the national semifinals (88-77).
- LSU has played three games of 10 points or less with a 3-0 record in those games
