🏀 🏆 NCAA Tournament 2021: Alabama (-17) to face Iona, Saturday at 4 ET on TBS

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Bama has to whip ole Slick Rick ! I expect this game to be a real struggle with Bama winning by less than 10.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Might have to roll out portable goals out into the parking lot .

Looks like he got the an extra hour in a gym... better than having to throw balled up paper into the hotel room trash can I suppose...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Oats has earned the respect of several SEC coaches in the short time he’s been at UA. Here’s another good example...

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"Food got much better, Monday night's dinner was outstanding, had a steak."
quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"Quarantine wasn't too bad, lasted until about 9 pm Monday night. Tuesday full practice, today full practice, I thought they've been good, guys are sharp. Guys lifted yesterday. So far all the accommodations have been good."

quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"I've had a chance to watch a few Iona games - they're good. They have two experienced guards at the 1 and 2."

quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"Joshua Primo is not even really jogging or anything yet. He's feeling better every day but we're not going to rush him. Unless significant progress over the next few days, I don't know if he'll be playing Saturday. Was able to shoot."

quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"Calipari texted me yesterday. His advice was 'don't change much, keep doing what you're doing.'"

quote:
@AlabamaMBB head coach Nate Oats:

"People as smart as @JayBilas are picking us to be in the Final Four."

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

A few of the ways Rick Pitino’s motivating underdog Iona before facing Alabama - al.com


Gene Hackman famously broke out a tape measure when his Hickory High team stepped into the state championship gym in the movie Hoosiers.


The point was to show his underdog team the foul line was just as far and the rim just as high as the gym back home. Once a disgraced college coach, he faced long odds in the movie based on an actual Indiana high school game in 1954.


That gym was Hinkle Fieldhouse, where heavily favored Alabama (24-6) will face tiny Iona at 3 p.m. CT Saturday in the NCAA tournament. The Gaels will be coached by Rick Pitino, fired amid scandal at Louisville four years ago.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

But Norman Dale wasn’t a slimy piece of shit

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

 

[BamaFan334]

Is that Pettway in the black wife beater? Looking pretty dang large.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@Brandon Van de Graaff

Worked on hurricane in Saint Thomas....they flew us in airline meals....breakfast andsupper.....lunch was snacks....

the alternative was MREs.... which is what Army guys had.... (we offered to provide them airline meals ( at agency expense).... army said no...

between airline meals and MREs.....we came our better...

 

[252BAMA]

Odds in title had me going to the Sportsbook.