Momentum is in our favor right now, we need to push this advantage and keep pouring it on them.
| MBB/WBB No. 18 Alabama Outlasts No. 1 North Carolina in Quadruple Overtime, 103-101
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38 fouls called so far with 9 mins left. Ridiculous.
Yea, Uconn been throwing those moving screens all night throwing hips and moving while screening. Pretty rough reffing so far. Needs more consistency.
Yea, Bama just doesn't have an answer here, rough night for Miller and the rest of the team has been pretty poor around him tonight. Bradley off the bench has been the best thing so far. We need assists and passing, our game and system thrive on assists and passing right now Uconn is almost 2 to 1 more than us in that category. We are just playing HERO ball the entire game, trying to drive and score between 2-3 players instead of driving and finding the open man.
Also, Sears for all the hype he had transferring in hasn't done much this year so far. He needs to step-up and start draining some 3s or I would rather see Bradley on the floor instead of him.
Not great down the stretch, but easy to see this team is different than last year's (for the better) in many ways.
Seems like it but I would have expected the D to prevent these runs (15-1) and now we can't hit a free throw.
New team, early in the season. Give it some time. North Carolina, Kansas, and Villanova all went down and looked bad as well.
Fully agree this team is night and day different than last year but I was hopeful the D would have kept these runs from happening. To go from tied to 17 down was frustrating. I think the youth/inexperience showed up. As I said in an earlier post this game will help this team in the long run.
Fouls were an issue as well. We held them defensively for a lot of the game as well. They did get two big runs on us. I felt the rims were very bouncy tonight. Anyone else feel like that?
Turnovers Plagued No. 18 Alabama in loss to No. 20/22 UConn - University of Alabama Athletics
The Crimson Tide drops its first contest of the 2022-23 season.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – After climbing back from a 15-point first half deficit in the semifinals of the Phil Knight Invitational, turnovers proved to be too costly as No. 20/22 UConn defeated No. 18/18 Alabama, 82-67, on Friday night. The loss is the first for the Crimson Tide this season as it drops to 5-1 while the Huskies improve to 7-0. The Crimson Tide drops its first contest of the 2022-23 season
The Crimson Tide struggled taking care of the ball on offense to start the game, committing five turnovers on their first seven possessions. While Alabama's offense struggled, the defense was once again exceptional for the Tide, limiting UConn to a pair of made field goals over its first 10 field goal attempts.
The Huskies went on a 14-0 run midway through the half and held a 15-point lead (28-13) with seven minutes left in the half. However, Alabama was able to cut into UConn's lead, ending the half on a 9-0 run to trim the lead to five points (35-30) at halftime.
Alabama continued to chip away at the Huskies' lead and was able to tie the game on several occasions before the Huskies went on a 16-1 run to get their lead back to erase any doubts of a UA comeback.
HEAD COACH NATE OATS POSTGAME COMMENTS
"Tonight was a tough loss, UConn is obviously a really good team, and it is our first loss of the season so you learn about yourselves a little bit. I thought our first half turnovers killed us but we did a good job and showed a lot of fight getting back to tie the game up a couple of times in the second half, but we just fouled too much. They (UConn) went 17-of-18 from the free throw line. The fouling just negates all of our hustle on the defensive end and when we needed stops, we couldn't get them. We have got a lot of stuff we need to get better at; we have to take care of the ball better and I didn't think we had a good gameplan on how to stop their pick-and-roll with limited practice time. I didn't think our effort was bad. I just think we couldn't get some stops when we needed to, and they opened it up."TEAM STATS
- Alabama committed 21 turnovers, the most in a game this season for the Tide
- The Tide scored 17 fastbreak points while limiting UConn to 13 points
- Brandon Miller scored a team-high 18 points
- Jaden Bradley scored a season-high 12 points
- UConn shot a 87.5 percent (21-24) from the free-throw line
FIRST HALF
- Alabama committed 16 turnovers in the first half
- Brandon Miller led the way for the Tide with 10 points in the first half
- The Tide shot 43 percent from the field recording seven assists off 10 made field goals
- Alabama's defense forced 10 turnovers, which resulted in 11 points for the Tide
SECOND HALF
- Jaden Bradley led Alabama with 10 points in the second half
- Each teams cored 18 points in the paint in the second half
- UConn's Jordan Hawkins led all scorers in the second half with 17 points
- The Huskies shot 94 percent (17-18) from the free-throw line
UP NEXT
- Alabama will face No. 1 North Carolina Sunday in the third-place game of the Phil Knight Invitational
- Tipoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and will be aired on ESPN
No. 18 Alabama Faces No. 1 North Carolina in the Phil Knight Invitational Third Place Game - University of Alabama Athletics
Alabama faces the No. 1 team in country for the first time since 2015.
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The Broadcast
Sunday's game will be aired on ESPN with Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play) and Bill Walton (analyst) on the call.The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Roger Hoover (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.
Notes You Need To Know
- The Crimson Tide are facing the No. 1 team during the non-conference season for the second time in program history and first since Jan. 28, 1983 (Alabama defeated No. 1 UCLA, 70-67).
- The last time Alabama faced the No. 1 team in the nation during the regular season was Jan. 31, 2015 (lost to No. 1 Kentucky 55-70).
- The last time Alabama defeated the No. 1 team in the nation was March 20, 2004 (defeated No. 1 Stanford, 70-67, in the NCAA Tournament).
- Alabama is 3-7 all-time against the No. 1 team in the country.
- The Crimson Tide's last win over the No. 1 team in the country during the regular season was Jan. 8, 1994 (defeated No. 1 Arkansas, 66-64).
- Brandon Miller is averaging 20.5 points per game, the most by any freshman in the country and No. 26 overall.
- Miller is averaging 3.67 three-pointers per game, which ranks No. 9 in the country.
- Alabama ranks No. 1 in the country in rebounds per game (49.8) and No. 2 in rebound margin (16.2) and No. 3 in offensive rebounds per game (16.3).
- Alabama's newcomers have scored 398 of the Tide's 487 points this season.
- Charles Bediako ranks No. 66 in the country averaging 3.0 offensive rebounds per game.
- Alabama has made 58 three-pointers this season, the most under Nate Oats in the first six games of the season.
- The Tide are making 9.7 three-pointers per game, which ranks No. 43 in Division I.
- Alabama welcomes the highest ranked recruiting class in program history, including McDonald's High School All-Americans Jaden Bradley and Brandon Miller, along with four-start prospects Noah Clowney and Rylan Griffen.
About North Carolina
- This was the 10th time the Tar Heels have been ranked No. 1 to begin a season (1977-78, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1993-94, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2022-23).
- UNC's 10 preseason No. 1 rankings are the most all-time, breaking a tie with Duke. UCLA is third with eight, Kentucky is fourth with six and Arizona, Indiana, Kansas and Michigan are tied with three.
- Carolina returns four starters from last season's team that went 29-10 overall, 15-5 in the ACC, was the No. 3 seed in the ACC Tournament, No. 8 seed in the East Regional in the NCAA Tournament, won the NCAA East Regional and advanced to the national championship game.
- UNC returns 71.2% of the scoring from a year ago in addition to 58.5% of its rebounding, 82.3% of its assists and 58.5% of its three- point field goals.
- Carolina is one of three teams (with Duke and Kentucky) with three players on the John R. Wooden Award preseason top 50. Armando Bacot, RJ Davis and Caleb Love are among the preseason players to watch.
- Head coach Hubert Davis's Tar Heels were picked to finish No. 1 in the ACC at the conference's preseason media day in Charlotte.
- Bacot was one of five players named to the As- sociated Press's 2022-23 Preseason All-America team. Bacot is joined on the AP team by Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky), Drew Timme (Gonzaga), Trayce Jackson-Davis (Indiana) and Marcus Sasser (Houston).
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