UNC is a 4.5 point fav. But it is out west, so no home court type advantage. Most Bama fans think we have overachieved this year, our top big defensive men all left at one time except for Pringle.

Can we beat UNC? Of course, we beat them last year 103-101 in OT so that gives these players some confidence, no doubt. UNC is by no mean unbeatable, they lost to N. C. State, in the ACC Tourney, to Georgia Tech Villanova and Syracuse (all bad teams or not NCAA tourney teams) and of course to Clemson, Kentucky and UCONN.

My prognosis of the game is different from most. I think Bama went down hill late in the season because they are taking rushed 3 point shots too many time instead of looking for the extra pass. This gives other teams more chances to go down low and get us in foul trouble. We should only run when we have the numbers, we should run our offense and try to get back door lay ups or open threes.

If we run and gun as usual we will lose unless we are hot, then we can beat anyone, as people saw throughout the year. This team seems to want to jack up bad threes before the defense is set, but that means before we have rebounders in place, if we slow it down a wee bit, I think we have a better shot. But UNC is favored for a reason, they are a better team. But, we were favored vs. San Diego St. last year and lost, so who knows.

This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 3:04 pm