re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

Back to #3 in the NET

Oh what a night! Can’t remember where I heard it (and haven’t fact checked it) but heard that Bama has had 6 100+ point games in the 4 years since Oats arrived and the rest of the SEC has combined for 7 during that same span. The only ‘damper’ for me was the crowd was a bit underwhelming (including the students). Would have loved to have seen the place packed out, but I get that the tip off time, weather and life all get in the way. Incredible bounce back and am happy to have witnessed history in the making. Roll Tide!

Brandon Miller winning the hard hat


Nick Pringle Commodore style

No. 4/5 Alabama Routs Vanderbilt 101-44 in Largest SEC Victory in Program History

The No. 4/5 Alabama men's basketball team recorded its largest SEC win in program history with a dominant 101-44 victory over Vanderbilt Tuesday night inside Coleman Coliseum. With the 57-point win, the Tide improved to 9-0 in conference play, 19-3 overall and 11-0 when playing in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama was dominant on both ends of the court in the opening period, taking a 43-15 lead heading into halftime. Vanderbilt (10-12, 3-6 SEC) opened the game by scoring the game's first five points, but the Tide responded by scoring 21 consecutive points to take control of the game.

The Tide shot 59 percent (36-61) from the field and 46 percent (19-41) from the field while holding the Commodores to just 25 percent (16-64 from the floor and 15 percent (3-30) from deep. 

The Tide had five players score in double figures, led by Brandon Miller with 22, his eighth time surpassing the 20-point mark in a game this season. Nimari Burnett (16), Rylan Griffen (12), Noah Gurley (11) and Charles Bediako (10) joined Miller in leading the offensive effort. 

HEAD COACH NATE OATS POSTGAME COMMENTS
"I thought our guys answered the bell after the Oklahoma game – it was a great way to respond. I was expecting a lot from us. It was just unfortunate for them that they were the team that followed the Oklahoma game. I told our guys we've kind of shown who we are and I think we're a tough, hard-nosed, blue collar, gritty team. Vanderbilt's tough, we showed a little highlight of Vanderbilt's tough plays before the game, like this is a game where we're going to try to be the tougher team. I think our guys answered the bell. They get the message. They really coached each other over the last three days, to be honest, they're a great group that kind of talked amongst themselves. This is who we want to be, this is what we got to do to get better. They did just about all that tonight. We were obviously aided by good shooting night and they didn't shoot it well, which happens. And I think for the most part we played pretty hard and locked into the defensive end tonight. So, it's good to see the improvement."

Haslametrics graded last night as our third best offensive efficiency performance and our second best defensive efficiency performance of the season. He also has @Tennessee being our only loss for the rest of the regular season.


Offensive

1) Jacksonville State (158.74)
2) LSU (155.50)
3) Vanderbilt (138.91)

Defensive

1) LSU (62.00)
2) Vanderbilt (64.22)
3) South Alabama (69.62)

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And a look at our Haslam graded efficiency over the course of the season.

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Comparisons between the Oats teams at Alabama

Stats/Records vs Top 150 teams

I want sole SEC Champion status. Assuming we go 16-2 or 15-3 in conference, I'm optimistic that this schedule can squeeze 2 more losses out of Tennessee

@Florida
Auburn
@Vandy
Missouri
Bama
@Kentucky
@A&M
BYE WEEK
Arkansas
@Auburn

I think Torvik has them if you go to the team page. It's labeled efficiency but I'm pretty sure it's PPP. They then have an adjusted efficiency number that basically compared your result vs that team to their average.

Yesterday it had us at 144.4 (1.444) and Vandy at 62.9 (0.629) efficiency. Pretty sure that's PPP.

You can download a chrome extension called ESPN Tempo Free Box that, if you have the ESPN game tracker page up in chrome, turns the box score box up top into an advanced stat box that updates when the ESPN box score updates during the game automatically. It's pretty cool.