TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama’s record-setting season continues on Wednesday when it hosts Florida on Wednesday.
The No. 3 crew within the nation is trying to enhance to 11-0 in SEC play for the second time in program historical past, following within the footsteps of the 1955-56 Crimson Tide who went 14-0 that season. Alabama can also be trying to set this system report for the most effective report by means of 24 video games as a 21-3 stretch would mark the primary time it had finished that because the 1975-76 season.
In order to perform these feats, Alabama should defeat Florida which is coming off an upset win over Tennessee final week.
“They are the tenth protection within the nation on Kenpom, so our offense gonna get examined, however I feel we have had two good days of observe,” Alabama head coach Nate Oats stated on Tuesday. “We’re getting good manufacturing from our bench. This is gonna be a giant check for us. It’s a giant house sport for us coming down the wire. We do not have that many extra house video games left. So hopefully we will get the group to return out, and hopefully, the coed part might be packed. We do not have too many extra left right here in Coleman after this one.”
Here’s the whole lot you could know as Alabama hosts Florida.
How to look at
Who: Florida (13-10, 6-4 within the SEC) at No. 4 Alabama (20-3, 10-0 within the SEC)
When: 8 p.m. CT, Wednesday, Feb. 8
Where: Coleman Coliseum, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Watch: ESPN2 (play-by-play: Tom Hart; analyst: Jimmy Dykes)
Listen: Crimson Tide Sports Network (play-by-play: Chris Stewart; analyst: Bryan Passink; engineer Tom Stipe)
Alabama’s projected starters
Jaden Bradley: 6-foot-3, 185 kilos, freshman
Stats: 7.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.3 apg, 41.3% FG, 31.6% 3-pt
Mark Sears: 6-foot-1, 185 kilos, junior
Stats: 13.7 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.9 apg, 41.2% FG, 38.3% 3-pt
Brandon Miller: 6-foot-9, 200 kilos, freshman
Stats: 18.8ppg, 8.2 rpg, 2.0 apg, 45.2% FG, 45.7% 3-pt
Noah Clowney: 6-foot-10, 210 kilos, freshman
Stats: 10.0 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 0.8 apg, 48.7% FG, 25.6% 3-pt
Charles Bediako: 7-foot, 225 kilos, sophomore
Stats: 5.5 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 0.6 apg, 60.6% FG
Florida’s projected starters
Kyle Lofton: 6-foot-3, 186 kilos, senior
Stats: 9.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 3.0 apg, 42.8% FG, 31.9% 3-pt
Myreon Jones: 6-foot-3, 177 kilos, senior
Stats: 5.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.3 apg, 33.6% FG, 28.4% 3-pt
Will Richard: 6-foot-4, 2006 kilos, sophomore
Stats: 10.3 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.9 apg, 47.1% FG, 41.1% 3-pt
Alex Fudge: 6-foot-9, 194 kilos, sophomore
Stats: 6.7 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 0.4 apg, 43.0% FG, 32.3% 3-pt
Colin Castleton: 6-foot-11, 240 kilos, senior
Stats: 15.6 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 2.7 apg, 50.0% FG, 14.3 3-pt
Alabama’s power off the bench
Jumbling lineups resulting from damage isn’t a super scenario.
It can disrupt chemistry, short-circuit the offense and scramble defensive rotations. Or it will possibly develop into a catalyst for one thing each championship crew wants — depth.
Alabama used this season to construct a deeper rotation after Nimari Burnett and Dom Welch missed time resulting from accidents. Oats was vocal that this yr’s crew had extra depth than it did final yr, citing if gamers did not play nicely, he could not simply substitute gamers into the sport off the bench.
This season, the Crimson Tide wanted its bench scoring 31 factors in its 79-69 win over a pesky LSU crew on Saturday.
“I feel over the past 5 contests, I feel our bench is averaging 34 factors a sport,” Oats stated. “So while you get that sort of manufacturing off your bench, generally when you have a tricky begin to the sport, it’s possible you’ll get a lift. Quinerly are available in and get you going. Nimari is available in and will get you a few photographs like he did at LSU. Rylan is available in and will get one thing going for us like that.
“It’s been good to have manufacturing off the bench. It’s nice to have spirited, aggressive practices, particularly since we performed Saturday, we don’t play until Wednesday, so Sunday’s off. So we sort of actually acquired after it Monday. It wasn’t the day after an off day, and it wasn’t the day earlier than a sport. I assumed we actually acquired higher on Monday in some stuff that we weren’t superb at on Saturday.”
Games notes
— On Feb. 3, 2023 Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats acquired a contract extension to maintain him in control of the Crimson Tide basketball program by means of March 14, 2029
— Alabama is trying to enhance to 21-3, which might match this system’s best-ever report by means of 24 video games and first because the 1975-76 season
— Alabama’s is trying to enhance to 11-0 in SEC play for the second time in program historical past (1955-56 completed with a 14-0 report)
— Alabama is ranked No. 3 in AP Top-25 Poll, which is the very best rating in program historical past this late into the season
— The Tide is one in every of 4 groups and the one Power 5 crew left this season with an unbeaten report in convention play
— The Crimson Tide is one in every of three faculties (UConn and Houston) to rank within the top-20 in each protection adjusted effectivity (No. 5) and in offense adjusted effectivity (No. 20) in response to KenPom
— Alabama has posted 5 wins over top-25 opponents in back-to-back seasons for the primary time in program historical past, going 10-5 over the span
— Over the final 5 contests, UA’s bench is averaging 33.8 factors per sport
— Brandon Miller is averaging 18.8 factors per sport, essentially the most by any freshman within the nation and No. 45 total
— Miller is the one participant in Division I to attain 430 factors, report 185 rebounds and make 70 three-pointers this season
— Miller is taking pictures 44.2 p.c from three-point vary, which ranks No. 13 in Division I
— Miller is one in every of 9 gamers in Division I, the one participant within the SEC and the one freshman within the nation that has scored 430 factors and recorded 185 rebounds this season
