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Title: "SEC Tournament Preview" Post by: Chechem on March 08, 2012, 04:24:23 AM Quote The SEC Tournament gets underway http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2012/3/7/2851147/sec-tournament-previewWhat happens if Bama falls to South Carolina? Alabama finished 5th place in the SEC this year, meaning the Tide just missed the cut for a bye on Thursday. Bama's reward for being the highest seed to play on Thursday? Facing the Gamecocks, who finished dead last in the league with a 2-14 conference record. As for Bama's chances of advancing in the SEC Tournament, this is indeed a reward, but as for Alabama's NCAA Tournament seeding, this game does Alabama absolutely no good. A win won't help Alabama's seeding even one iota, as a win over a team ranked nearly 200th in the RPI isn't going to leapfrog Alabama over any teams currently projected to be 7 or 8 seeds. A loss to such a team, however, would be devastating.... Title: Re: "SEC Tournament Preview" Post by: Catch Prothro on March 08, 2012, 08:58:35 AM Quote The SEC Tournament gets underway http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2012/3/7/2851147/sec-tournament-previewWhat happens if Bama falls to South Carolina? Alabama finished 5th place in the SEC this year, meaning the Tide just missed the cut for a bye on Thursday. Bama's reward for being the highest seed to play on Thursday? Facing the Gamecocks, who finished dead last in the league with a 2-14 conference record. As for Bama's chances of advancing in the SEC Tournament, this is indeed a reward, but as for Alabama's NCAA Tournament seeding, this game does Alabama absolutely no good. A win won't help Alabama's seeding even one iota, as a win over a team ranked nearly 200th in the RPI isn't going to leapfrog Alabama over any teams currently projected to be 7 or 8 seeds. A loss to such a team, however, would be devastating.... Title: Re: "SEC Tournament Preview" Post by: cbbama99 on March 08, 2012, 09:38:28 AM It seems that this first game against USCe is the only "must win" for CAG and the team. Anything past that would be icing on the cake. Lose to USCe, and I think we are in deep trouble as far as The Dance.
Title: Re: "SEC Tournament Preview" Post by: pmull on March 08, 2012, 09:59:40 AM A win over USCe today does not help our seeding in the tournament but a loss would be bad. A loss puts us on the bubble and even if we get in it could be one of the play-in games. No doubt about it, we need to take of business in this game and advance to play Florida.
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