Alabama basketball and Duke faced off in the Elite Eight of March Madness on Saturday. Here are three takeaways from the game that ended the Crimson Tide's season and sent the Blue Devils to the Final Four.
The Crimson Tide had its nonconference and conference schedules littered with the nation’s best teams all year. Then, it reached its zenith in the Elite Eight in the form of the Duke Blue Devils.
It showed early and often. Duke contested shot after shot, making life difficult for the Crimson Tide. Alabama seldom had much space with which to work. The Blue Devils didn’t give many open looks whatsoever. Duke’s length gave Alabama fits at times. Alabama has proved it doesn’t need triples to fall at a high clip to win, so long as it can do work at the rim. The problem was, shots in the paint also faced plenty of obstacles, proving even tougher than from beyond the arc.
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