| MBB/WBB 🏀 No. 2/2 Alabama Comes Back to Secure an 86-83 Victory over Arkansas on Senior Night

[alabama mike]

What are your thoughts of the Hogs coming to T'town on Saturday and playing us in Coleman?

I'd like to see more consistent play out of Bradley and Griffen than we saw in the S.C. game.

 

[UAgrad93]

Need to get out to a fast start and like you said, guard play needs to be more consistent.

 

[mando]

Been odd seeing Griffen have several great games then fall off quickly the last two. He needs to get back on track. Sears is another oddity in terms of consistency. Could use more out of Clowney also.

 

[UA Press Release]

No. 2/2 Alabama Hosts Arkansas on Senior Day at Coleman Coliseum - University of Alabama Athletics

he No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team will close out the week at home, as the Crimson Tide host Arkansas Saturday at Coleman Coliseum.

rolltide.com

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 2/2 Alabama men's basketball team will close out the week at home, as the Crimson Tide host Arkansas Saturday at Coleman Coliseum. The Tide will honor its three seniors, Adam Cottrell, Noah Gurley and Dom Welch.

The Alabama-Arkansas matchup features two of the best offenses in the Southeastern Conference, as the Razorbacks rank No. 1 in conference games, shooting 47% from the field while the Tide average 46% from the floor. Alabama is led by Brandon Miller, who ranks No. 1 in the SEC in scoring (19.5 ppg) while Arkansas' Ricky Council IV ranks No. 3 in the SEC, averaging 16.4 points per contest.

The Broadcast​

Saturday's game is set for a 1 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on ESPN2 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) 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​

• For the second time in the last three seasons, Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats was named to the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Men's Coach of the Year (Finished in the top 4 in 2021)
• Alabama has posted five wins over top-25 opponents in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history, going 10-6 over the span
• Alabama is 14-13 against AP Top 25 teams during Nate Oats' tenure
• The Crimson Tide is the first SEC team to score 100 points versus three conference opponents since the 1997-98 Arkansas team
• Alabama has won 11 SEC games by double digits, tying the program record set by the 1955-56 team
• Alabama is ranked No. 2 in the AP Top-25 Poll, the highest ranking in program history this late into the season
• The Crimson Tide is one of two schools (Houston) to rank in the top 15 in both defense adjusted efficiency (No. 5) and in offense adjusted efficiency (No. 15) according to KenPom
• Brandon Miller became the third freshman and the fastest freshman in program history to score 500 points in a single season (27 games), surpassing Collin Sexton (28 games) and James "Hollywood" Robinson (30 games)
• Miller is seven points away from tying James "Hollywood" Robinson for the second most points (554 points) scored by a freshman in a single season in UA history
• Miller is the only player in Division I to score 545 points, record 225 rebounds and make 85 three-pointers this season
• Alabama's freshmen have scored 52.4 percent (1,222 points) of the Tide's scoring this season led by Miller's 19.5 points per game

 

[PurlJam]

Possibly a trap game. Focus will be the key for us, Arkansas is very unpredictable IMO, they either play like their unbeatable or shit the bed with the closes bottle of Imodium AD at a CVS in the Himalayas.

 

[#80]

BPI gives us a 84% chance to win Vegas has the Tide as a 8' pt. favorite.

 

[rick4bama]

ROLL TIDE!!!

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Every SEC game in Coleman has been a dismantling of the opponent other than Mississippi State, hopefully it continues that way. I do think Arkansas is a team that will make some noise in Nashville, but if Bama plays their game today Tide wins by 10.

 

[bama alum]

 

[mando]

Will be a challenging game. Arkansas is playing much better than they were the first game we played them. Roll Tide gentelmen lets hope they notch another game in the win column.

 

[bama alum]

Nearly four minutes in, Bama's 0 - 6, down 4 - 0.

 

[bama alum]

They're awake now!

 

[Bammerboy321]

Officials are making it obvious calls against us

 

[bamafan9201]

Looking at the information so far, we're following the script we usually follow when we lose games. Not looking good. We're on pace for 20 turnovers (happened in almost every loss) and we're shooting well below or average (Happened in almost all the losses also) the two contributing factors to a loss are happening at the same time, we really need to get our shit together and fast.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Our offense just looks like they don't give a shit. It's ridiculous. Oats needs to fix this.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

To many distractions?

 

[BamaFan334]

What in the hell has happened to our ball handling? Do we have weak hands or what?

 

[BamaFan334]

We can't hit wide open shots. Unreal.

 

[Bammerboy321]

We don't look like we even want to play.

 

[Bammerboy321]