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

(Yesterday)

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Michael Southern@msouthern17
Every program revival starts with one player and in 2017 having Collin Sexton, a 5-star point guard from Mableton, Ga., choose the Crimson Tide meant the times of @AlabamaMBB being dismissed by blue-chip players were about to end. Credit former Alabama head coach Avery Johnson with discovering Sexton early and riding that momentum to finish with a Top Ten recruiting class. In his one collegiate season, @CollinSexton_ averaged 19.2 points, 3.6 assists and became a Crimson Tide legend, keeping Alabama competitive in a bizarre 3-on-5 finish against Minnesota and his coast-to-coast, game-winning layup against Texas A&M in the 2018 SEC Tournament. Alabama returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in six years, and reached the round-of-32 before falling to eventual national champion Villanova. Sexton earned Co-SEC Freshman of the Year and AP All-SEC first-team honors. Following the postseason run, Sexton declared for the NBA Draft but still returned for Alabama’s postseason awards banquet to celebrate with teammates and fans. The Cleveland Cavaliers later selected him eighth overall. So Collin Sexton is here to remind you the 2023-24 basketball season tips off in two days.

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I know I’m late but I never knew muss was zesty.

How is Morehead St.? Decent mid major or cupcake?

I need some input/stats/graphics for this thread LINK

I kid, Pio. All love.

its all good

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A bored billionaire with a basketball hobby scares the hell out of me.

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wish this was me

Tomorrow can’t get here fast enough…been a long offseason!

Hornets play again today, but their 1 point win yesterday against Pacers was one of the weirdest statistical anomalies I’ve seen in a long time.

Miller played 34 minutes with +17 +/- and Lamelo played 31 minutes with -15. That means in the 14 minutes that Brandon sat, Lamelo and the hornets went -15 while going +17 in the 17 minutes that Lamelo wasn’t on the court (this assumes it was +0 for shared time on the court, otherwise the run would have to be even greater while one was sitting). A 32 point +\- differential for 2 players that played over 30 minutes of the game seems extremely rare.

RollTide.com

Alabama Men’s Basketball Opens the 2023-24 Season at Coleman Coliseum Against Morehead State

The Crimson Tide faces Morehead State who was picked No. 1 in the OVC Preseason Poll

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 24/24 Alabama men's basketball team will begin the 2023-24 season against Morehead State Monday night. The Eagles are the first of four games the Crimson Tide will host at Coleman Coliseum to start the campaign.

Alabama is coming off a program-record 31 wins last season, highlighted by an SEC regular season championship and tournament title including a trip to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. The Tide welcomes 10 newcomers to its roster, including the No. 5 overall transfer class and the No. 10 class over that includes five freshmen that are rated as four-star prospects.

The Broadcast
Monday's game is set for an 7 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on the SEC Network+ with Roger Hoover (play-by-play) and Richard Hendrix (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
* Alabama has a 15-game winning streak at home, which ranks as the eighth longest streak in the country
* In his first four years at Alabama, head coach Oats has won 92 games which is the most by a coach in his first four years at Alabama
* In the last three seasons, Alabama has won a league-best 76 games overall and 41 SEC contests
* Alabama returns three players (Rylan Griffen, Nick Pringle and Mark Sears) from last year's 31-win team
* Senior transfer Grant Nelson earned First Team All-SEC Preseason honors becoming the first UA player to do so since 2021 (Jahvon Quinerly and Jaden Shackelford)
* After being named to the 2023 Second Team All-SEC, Mark Sears enters his second season with the Tide and was tabbed Second Team All-SEC Preseason honors
* Alabama captured both the SEC regular season and tournament championships in the same year in two of the last three years, the first time that's happened in program history
* Alabama has won a program-record 31 wins this season, surpassing the 2001-02 team for most wins in a single season (27)
* Oats became the first coach in UA history to win multiple SEC Regular Season and Tournament titles for the first time in program history
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About Morehead State
* Morehead State is one of six teams that Alabama will face during its non-conference schedule that was picked to finish No. 1 in their conference's preseason poll.
* Last season, the Eagles won the Ohio Valley Conference Regular Season Championship and topped Clemson in the First Round of the NIT.
* The Eagles' received 20 of the 22 first-place votes in the OVC Preseason Poll
* Morehead State's Mark Freeman and Drew Thelwell were selected to the 2023-24 Preseason All-OVC Team
* Freeman is the reigning OVC Player of the Year after averaging 15.0 points and 3.7 assists per game
* Morehead State is led by Preston Spradlin who is in his seventh season as the Eagles' head coach and has led Morehead State to three consecutive 20-win seasons
* Spradlin guided the program to its first outright OVC regular-season title in 39 years last season

Surprised they included notes about Freeman since he’s out for the year.