šŸ€ Jim Litke commentary on Alabama basketball: A rare sight in college sports

ā€œWe’ve got choices that we’ve got to make right now,ā€ he said. ā€œDo we hang our heads and feel sorry for ourselves, or do we respond like winners respond?ā€

For the price of a ticket Tuesday night in Tuscaloosa, you could see something rare in college sports anymore: a coach putting his foot down.

The shoe belonged to third-year Alabama basketball coach Anthony Grant, who’s made a habit of suspending his own players recently, and sat his two best down against No. 14 Florida in yet another game the Crimson Tide needed to win. They didn’t -- dropping a 61-52 decision that left them at 16-9 on the season and 5-6 in the SEC. Afterward, Grant hardly needed reminding that the sub.-500 record in the league meant his team’s chances of making the NCAA tournament were considerably slimmer than at the start of the night. He didn’t care.

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