Alabama basketball was down 14 against Mississippi State. Here's how the Crimson Tide pulled out an SEC win.
entered Tuesday’s game at Mississippi State facing bleak circumstances. The Crimson Tide came in with just eight scholarship players,Couple all that with a rancid start to the game, and Nate Oats and company had their backs properly against the wall.
The team that Oats had called out following Saturday’s loss to Texas responded though, and Alabama won 97-82 after at one point sitting 14 points behind. Alabama did not start well. It scored the first point of the game, but at the under 16- timeout, the Bulldogs were up 10-6, and UA was 2-for-5 from the field. The ice cold shooting continued. By the under 12, UA was just 3-for-12 from the field, and 2-for-8 from three-point range. The Bulldogs started taking advantage as the half continued. They weren’t shooting especially well, but compared to the 26% shooting Alabama was putting up with 7:58 left in the first half, MSU was an offensive dynamo. Mississippi State led the game 29-15 at that point, and was on a 6-0 run.The Bulldogs were also running Alabama off the glass, outrebounding the Crimson Tide 20-9 at the under-8 timeout. Out of that timeout, Alabama got back in the game. The Crimson Tide went on a 7-0 run, buoyed by a three-pointer from Labaron Philon. UA was shooting better too. Entering the under 4 timeout, the Mississippi State lead was down to 32-27, and Alabama had made five of its previous six shots from the field. With 2:39 left, Aiden Sherrell hit a layup and drew the foul to pull Alabama within one. He sank the free throw to tie it up at 32, in the midst of a lengthy scoreless from the Bulldogs. Improbably, Alabama finished storming all the way back when Philon sank two free throws with six seconds left in the half, putting the Crimson Tide up 36-34 at the break. Philon led all scorers with 12 points in the half. The Crimson Tide finished out the first 20 minutes on a 12-2 run. Alabama got off to a far better start after halftime. MSU coach Chris Jans called a timeout with 18 minutes remaining, after the Crimson Tide got up 47-36 on a three from Sherrell.A minute later, MSU’s Brandon Walker was ejected, after he was called for a flagrant 2 foul. Walker hit Alabama’s Amari Allen in the face from behind while Allen was attempting to hit a layup.The significance of Alabama keeping Bray Hubbard for another year Alabama didn’t have much trouble the rest of the way. The Crimson Tide emptied out Humphrey Coliseum before the under-8 timeout, and led 81-62 at that point, largely due to a much-improved shooting performance from the field.UA moved to 2-2 in SEC play with the win, 12-5 overall. Philon finishing the game with a career-high in scoring: 32 points, 20 of them coming in the second half.Matt Stahl covers University of Alabama sports for AL.com. He joined AL.com in July of 2023. He previously covered University of Missouri athletics for the Columbia Daily Tribune and started his career covering...
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