re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

I’d like to keep him a secret but all of the basketball coaches probably already do the analytics at some level.

I've convinced myself we win.

We play a style that will bother them, and these boys have been told all week that we will lose by 30. 82-77 Bama

John Henson on Field of 68 completely changed his tune last night after watching Bama practice. All week he'd called for a blowout, and now thinks Bama can play with them. Said Bama was way bigger and more athletic than he realized. Said it doesn't come across on TV.

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Would be a good option for a Miles College?

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IMG? The rumor I saw is they're looking at the Birmingham-Southern Campus.

This is the day we’ve all dreamed of our entire lives. Alabama is FINALLY playing in the Final Four tonight. Let’s enjoy this!!! ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!

I just saw Kristin Saban at my hotel, I haven’t seen him, I assume he is here. My wheels are spinning, I should have played golf today as well. Think I’m going to hit the spa or something lol.

Over on the uconn board, most of them are predicting us to score in the 60's. I think they're in for a rude awakening.

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I think that is unlikely. It would have to be an epic meltdown.

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GCU held us to 72, so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities (even in a win). If you look at UConn’s points given up, more often then not it’s less than 70, even against good teams.

Last I checked, Vegas had us projected at 73 to 74 points, so not crazy to think the game could have cold shooters in the football stadium and end up 5-10 points below Vegas expectations.

That said, if they do keep us under 70, we just need to hold them to 1 point less than us with our not so secret weapon analytics guy helping us hold them to 0.84 in the most surprising defensive performance in Bama basketball history!

Find a way, any way, and let’s win this!!!

I actually think a game in the 70’s favors us. I actually think a high scoring game could resemble the Kentucky game or Florida games

Wyatt Fulton game simulations on X

After 3,142 simulations, the projection for Alabama and UConn tonight

Mark Sears missed the buzzer-beating three-point shot

81-80 bad guys

The sim is 4-0 this postseason
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Nooooo, let’s make it 4-1 smh

I have successfully talked myself into Bama winning today.

I think there's a better shot than what a lot of media members are giving us credit for but hey that's why we play the games.

I think we're going to need a big performance from Grant Nelson tonight, he's going to have to hit a couple 3's and make the UConn bigs uncomfortable guarding on the perimeter.

Push the pace and make them run, more possessions means more shots. Get the shots up early before the defense has a chance to set. I think defensively we just try and set them up to take perimeter shots and hope they stay shooting relatively cool They're probably going to eat us alive on the glass.