🏀 🏀 Alabama vs. Duke in Elite Eight: Blue Devils end Bama's run with 85-65 victory

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2025 Men's Basketball Tournament Central for Alabama Crimson Tide Men's Basketball

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[Bammerboy321]

End Duke's season, Mo

 

[TerryP]

From what I've seen just glancing around the opening line has Bama as a dog; +6.5

KenPom has Duke winning by six, Torvlick by four. Both are calling for the 160's as a total.

 

[TerryP]

End Duke's season, Mo

The one guy we haven't seen "go off" is Philon.

Mo may come into play. I'm thinking they "glue" Grant on Flagg.

 

[#80]

Analytics give the Tide a 28% chance of winning and Vegas has Bama +7.

 

[rick4bama]

Isn't Bama something like 6-2 as a under dog?

 

[bamafan4ever]

This one aged so well, I figured why not use it for the Duke thread? Plus, we needed to illicit a visceral reaction from Brandon again......Gotta keep the mojo going for tomorrow.

 

[Bammerboy321]

The one guy we haven't seen "go off" is Philon.

Mo may come into play. I'm thinking they "glue" Grant on Flagg.

Been waiting to see Philon really go off. Not just from 3. Dude is a natural slasher and destroys teams on PnR. I don't know if we'll see him have a day like Sears or Holloway from deep, but if he has a performance like he had vs Purdue or Illinois, we're golden.

 

[PurlJam]

The one guy we haven't seen "go off" is Philon.

Mo may come into play. I'm thinking they "glue" Grant on Flagg.

With that, Grant just picked up his 1st foul.

 

[#80]

This one aged so well, I figured why not use it for the Duke thread? Plus, we needed to illicit a visceral reaction from Brandon again......Gotta keep the mojo going for tomorrow.

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He must have bought a copy of Basketball CliffsNotes now he thinks he is an analyst.

 

[BamaFan334]

The one guy we haven't seen "go off" is Philon.

Mo may come into play. I'm thinking they "glue" Grant on Flagg.

I don't think Nelson has the feet to stick with Flagg. It will need to be Mo to me. Nelson is going to have to be close enough assist Cliff with Mr. 7'2 in the paint who is extremely athletic.

 

[BamaFan334]

This one aged so well, I figured why not use it for the Duke thread? Plus, we needed to illicit a visceral reaction from Brandon again......Gotta keep the mojo going for tomorrow.

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To be fair, we did perform better than any other game of the season, and we did win.

 

[bamafan4ever]

 

[footballer]

What day? Sunday?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

What day? Sunday?

Tomorrow... (Saturday).

 

[It Takes Eleven]

What day? Sunday?

Saturday. I updated the thread title.

 

[footballer]

Thanks

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Just thinking... There would be something poetic about Alabama running through both North Carolina and Duke in back to back seasons in the NCAA Tournament on their way to the Final Four. Especially while owning Kentucky recently.

 

[TerryP]

Just thinking... There would be something poetic about Alabama running through both North Carolina and Duke in back to back seasons in the NCAA Tournament on their way to the Final Four. Especially while owning Kentucky recently.

Oh man. I thought about this and decided not to post the thought...jinx is knocking on my mental door.

 

[mando]

I don't think Nelson has the feet to stick with Flagg. It will need to be Mo to me. Nelson is going to have to be close enough assist Cliff with Mr. 7'2 in the paint who is extremely athletic.

I am thinking they will not switch and rotate Mo, Stevenson, Reid and possibly Youngblood on him.