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Unusual time for today's game. It's on the SEC Network @ 1:30 pm.

Game is in T-town and a sellout was announced on Thursday. What do A&M, Florida, USC, & LSU all have in common? They are all projected to make the Big Dance & Bama beat all of them. Tide shown as last 4 in by Lunardi today. What am I missing with this "logic"?





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PROJECTED SEEDS



Alabama Last 4 in
16-9
RPI  30
SOS 12


LSU 11
16-10
RPI  81
SOS 71


A&M 6
19-7
RPI  26
SOS 53


Florida 7
RPI  31
SOS  9


USC 8
20-5
RPI  35
SOS 159



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13-12 Tide. MSU playing good D right now & have hit two 3's.



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The missing FT's is habit forming I believe. I think they just Jimmie Taylor i think, was 32 out of 83 FT's. Dog gone. RTR!

We are looking sloppy & missing too many shots. Hale 0/4 shooting right now. 22-18 MSU.

We're shooting 30% & can't hit a free throw 1-1. Very ugly. 24-18 MSU.


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Hale scores 9 straight for Bama, 32-27 MSU. 32-29 Half.

Good news is Tide has been sloppy & shot poorly but trails by only 3.

Very bad call by refs resulting in at least 4 point turn around & maybe even 7 points against Tide.



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We have plenty of time to win the game, but we have looked so ugly & discobobulated. We need to reward this crowd.

47-41 MSU, 11:13 left.

52-47 MSU. Tide looking a little better, especially on D.

Tide playing much better, 6/7 last 7 shot attempts. 58-57 MSU. Still lots of time, 4:23.



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Tide 11/21 FT's, 52%, absolutely no excuse for this.




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The Grant dribble offense lives on!! We're running out of time and we run around dribbling the ball then at last second, we shoot ugly shot and miss. 64-57 MSU. Two huge turnovers by Tide with 2 minutes left, and some bad shots, plus missed FT's. 65-59 MSU.




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Tide loses 67-61 in an ugly, pathetic performance.



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Pathetic performance is right. We are not a good enough team to play uninspired and still win. I did not see this coming. We played awful.

MD, forget the good. It was all bad and ugly today.

maybe they read our posts about how good i thought we were getting and they thought they were the best now. I guess i got brought back down to earth we are still not that team we want to be where we win 5 or 6 in a row. The sad part of this to me is we lost at home. People came to see the change that we all had talked about and the change was not there as much as I had said it was. RTR!

Kids will break your heart if given the chance.  :(

 >:( Yes sir you are so right. I was so looking forward to what was going to be said about Alabama this coming week when we won this game. I still believe we might get in the big dance if we win some more games and go 2 deep in the tourney, but our seeding I don't think we will be higher than #12. Maybe an even if we are blessed but I don't think we will be any higher. My reasoning is that we just don't play up to the higher seeds placing. RTR!

Perfect description.



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 :lol:, yes sir I would say you are correct. RTR!

It was a tough loss but give MSU some credit, they have improved the second half of the season but that isn't to say they were the reason Bama lost today. Mentally, Bama was a train wreck today and you can blame all that played.

Bama looked good in their shoot around and at the first of the game but after that, they were not a good team. It was a tough loss but the season isn't over, they need to put this game behind them and get ready for Tuesday night. Hale should have had over 20 points in the first half, he missed a lot of shots from underneath the basket. Coleman didn't have a clue as to what he was supposed to do today. Obasohan just ran out of gas but those three were not just their reason for their losing, it was all of them that played. I might add too that we had one official that had a bad game as well.

Anyway, it's Kentucky Tuesday night and maybe the team can get refocused by then and give Kentucky a run for their money, you never know it could happen.

Everything Bama gained with back-to-back wins over Florida and A&M was negated in the loss to Miss State. Our RPI jumped 12 points to 42 and our strength of schedule increased to 23. Even after beating us MSU's RPI is 15.

It will take a very strong finish to reach the goals we reset for this team a few days ago. We have to get a good win to offset the bad loss. It may also take 2 SEC Tournament wins. 

I hope the team can rebound from the loss. It burst my bubble, I hope it did not burst theirs.

The game was announced as a sell out and the box score shows a full house 15,383. On TV you could see empty seats scattered all over. It is hard to estimate the size of the crowd on TV because all you can see is close to the floor and behind the baskets. All those empty seats are not at concessions and bathrooms.

In order to have a good home crowd they need to do away with Tide Pride football status tied to basketball games. We need basketball fans in those seats.

The same may be true for baseball. Two sell outs and I see empty seats.

I was considering going to T-Town yesterday and enjoy a basketball-baseball doubleheader but on Thursday basketball was sold out and only 500 baseball tickets remained. I stayed home and played golf instead. That did not go well either.

Sorry about your golf, mull.  I'm hoping to just get back and play ... poorly, if necessary.
I want to get back to baseball and T-town too.  I see that in my future!

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Well, whether you like it or not, here it is:


THE GOOD

Obasohan 22 points, 8/18 FG, 6 Rebounds
Hale 22 points 7/15 FG, 4/8 3 pointers
Sellout of 15,000 at Coleman
Bench points: Tide 26, MSU 14


THE BAD

Tide lost in front of loud sellout crowd of 15,000


AND THE UGLY

Tide slept-walked in front of sellout crowd
Tide played with energy of a snail
Riley Norris, 2nd leading scorer was 0/0 FG attempts
Coleman 0/2 FG's
Edwards 2/11 FG's
Points off turnovers: Tide 9, MSU 19 (both teams had 11 turnovers)







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