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

Wow. South Alabama blew a 2nd half lead. Tied it to go to OT. Got down by 7 with like 3:00 left in OT…and came back and won 80-79…

AND I frickING JINXED IT. They put 1.0 seconds back on the clock and Nichols tied it to send it to a 2nd OT


And Nichols wins in 3OT. I jinxed South

Mizzou just came back from 20 down on the road in Minnesota!! SEC!

whats the story about her dad and car?

yall keep posting about it

I remember when that happened. Had no idea that was his daughter.

Men’s Basketball Closes Out Homestand Friday Night Against Mercer

The Crimson Tide looks for its fourth-straight win at Coleman Coliseum to start the season

The No. 22/22 Alabama men's basketball team will host the final game of its four-game homestand to start the 2023-24 season, as the Crimson Tide will face Mercer at 7 p.m. CT Friday night inside Coleman Coliseum.

The Tide has currently won 18-straight games at Coleman, which ranks as the fifth-longest home winning streak in Division I, winning by an average of 26.6 points per contest. 

In its first three games of the season, Alabama has scored 309 points (103.0 ppg) which is the most in program history since the 1956-57 season (315 points). UA enters the contest as one of six teams in the country that is averaging 100 points per game.

The Broadcast
Friday's game is set for a 7 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on the SEC Network+ with Gray Robertson (play-by-play), Richard Hendrix (analyst) and Nathan Brown (sideline) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play), Bryan Passink (analyst) and Roger Hoover (sideline) 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 school history, and first since 1956-57, Alabama has opened a season with three consecutive 100-point games
* The Crimson Tide is averaging 103.0 points per game, which ranks No. 4 in the country and the best among Power Five programs
* The Crimson Tide is the only SEC team averaging over 88.0 points per game on offense
* UA is shooting 50.7 percent from three-point range, which ranks No. 7 in Division I
* Alabama has an 18-game winning streak at home, which ranks as the fifth-longest streak in the country
* During Alabama's winning streak, UA has won by double-digits 14 times and by an average of 26.6 points per contest at home
* UA has won 17-straight non-conference games at Coleman Coliseum (last defeat was vs. Western Kentucky on Dec. 19, 2020)
* In the last four seasons, Alabama has won a league-best 79 games overall and 41 SEC contests
* Senior transfer Grant Nelson was named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List, which annually recognizes the top player in college basketball and the Karl Malone Award Watch List for the top power forward in Division I
* Alabama's trio of Aaron Estrada, Nelson and Mark Sears have each scored over 1,000 points throughout their college career, which is tied for the third most in the country (St. John's & TCU with four each)
* In his first five years at Alabama, head coach Nate Oats has won 95 games which is the most by a coach in UA program history

About Mercer
* Mercer has forced 18.0 turnovers per game through three outings, good enough for 33rd, nationally
* MU has turned in 9.3 steals per game (68th NCAA) this season
* Mercer's 13 steals at Morehead State on Tuesday marked its most swipes in nearly a full calendar year
* Jalyn McCreary was named to the Preseason All-SoCon team
* The Bears returned one starter (McCreary) off of last season's 14-19 club, as well as four other returning letterwinners and 10 newcomers. The cast of newcomers includes six transfers
* Jah Quinones has recorded eight steals this season, which ranks No. 41 in Division
* Robby Carmody has attempted 19 free throws this season, which ranks No. 69 in the country
* Head Coach Greg Gary won 51 games in his first three seasons at Mercer, the most by any coach in school history

fwiw the '56-57 team that keeps getting mentioned scored 100+ in their first four games, 109 points in game 4 but it was Jax St, Bham Southern, Eastern Ken and Howard as opponents.

They lost 4 of 5 after that. Finished 15-11.

The only thing better than LSU blowing a huge lead late yesterday is them losing again today before noon.

So you're saying we should stop at 99 tonight? I'm good with that.

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I did not see the final play live, but I saw the replay last night during halftime of some game. I think that may have been, given the situation, the single worst defensive effort I have ever seen from a basketball team. Might as well have been 5 traffic cones out there. Multiple guys just kinda standing around looking at each other confused about what to do while Dayton is literally running a play. If their fans weren't such trashy, classless fricks I'd almost feel sorry for them having to endure a significantly worse team than any of the shite we had for that stretch of amazingly consistent mediocrity from late stage Gottfried through Avery.

Apparently it is Basketball A Club Alumni Weekend this weekend

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Game day let’s roll the bears. I’ll never forget the game they beat us under Grant.

Here’s a picture with more in there - I recognized a handful but not most of them…

Past and present

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