quote:
The 1976 team was a very good team. Leon Douglas, Anthony Murry, Reggie King, TR Dunn, Ricky Brown...

Indiana was the media darling that year. We got screwed.

...and Wimp had some great players but outcoached himself when the NCAA tournament came around.

I was at that Ala/Indiana game @ Baton Rouge in the NCAA tournament. After the game Bobby Knight came into Alabama's locker room and told them that they were the best team his undefeated Indiana team had played the entire year!

PS- Take a look back at Alabama's '56 team (the Rocket-Eight) I was around for that season, too! (geezer material!) I was in the stands in Montgomery, Ala. when Alabama put the FIRST 100 point game on a Kentucky Wildcats team.
I remember, with about 2 minutes left in the game, Coach Adolph Rupp putting his head in his hands and not looking up until the horn sounded!
Some interesting reading for Alabama fans:

The 1950s marked unprecedented success for the Alabama program with the emergence of the team referred to as “Rocket 8,” in reference to a popular model of Oldsmobile at the time. Former University of Notre Dame player and assistant Johnny Dee took over the program in 1952, bringing with him five players he recruited from the Midwest. In four seasons, the team tallied a 68-25 record. In 1955-56, it won 21 games, claimed the SEC championship, and finished fifth in the final Associated Press (AP) poll. Additionally, its 101-77 victory over Kentucky on February 27, 1956, marked the first time any team beat an Adolph Rupp-coached squad by scoring 100 points. Two of the group, Jerry Harper and George Linn, were voted All-Americans. Harper was Alabama’s first two-time All-American and was voted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Linn pulled off the most famous shot in the history of UA basketball. On January 4, 1955, against the University of North Carolina at Foster Auditorium, Linn made a full-court shot at the end of the first half (Alabama would go on to win the game 77-55). The 84-foot, 11-inch basket remains the longest in UA history and was the longest made in a sanctioned NCAA basketball game at that time....I was there for that, too! The funny thing about it was that Linn and the other players had already started walking off to the locker room, and only a few of them saw the ball go through the net!