The Tide broke Arkansas's nine game winning streak on Saturday.
Next up is a contest with Mississippi State on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN2 or ESPNU. Bama will try to pay back the Bullies after losing in Starkville on January 15th. A huge win for the Tide to get back to .500 in league play. Arkansas shot 11-35 for 31% in the second including 5-14 from three and 8-12 from the line. In the second half Bama shot 12-30 for 40%, 1-13 for 7% from three, and 6-9 from the line. Bediako finished with the nine he scored in the first half, while Rojas added eight points and four boards. Individually Davison led the way with 11 points and added four assists, four rebounds, but six big turnovers. The freshman scored seven straight on drives to the basket and a free throw to stake the Tide to a 57-44 lead with 9:47 left on the clock. The Tide turned to Gurley in the paint and he made a go ahead shot over Jaylin Williams. Gurley was called for a foul on the other end, and after two makes the Hogs pushed ahead 67-66 with 48 seconds left. Bama went to the well again and Gurley used some nice post moves to drop in the final points for the Tide. With 18 seconds left Arkansas had the ball with a chance to try for a last second shot and win. In the first half Bama shot 12-26 for 42% with 6-16 from deep for 38% while making 7-8 free throws. Bama improved to 16-9 overall and 6-6 in the SEC while breaking the Hogs’ nine game winning streak, leaving Arkansas at 19-6 and 8-4 in the league. Arkansas was held to 31% on 11-35 and made only 1-7 from three and 9-12 free throws.
Alabama Basketball overcame 24 turnovers to outlast the Arkansas Razorbacks, 68-67 to get a key SEC home game win on Saturday.
Darius Miles led the Tide with seven rebounds. In the most obvious statement of the Crimson Tide’s season, Oats said his team made too many turnovers. In addition to the Crimson Tide’s turnover-marred performance, the Tide was outshot from outside the arc, making only 24 percent and out-rebounded, 46-40, giving up 21 offensive rebounds. We’ve got to do a better job rebounding the ball. It was the worst turnover stat for the Tide this season. The SEC’s leading scorer JD Notae played four minutes in the first half.
Gulrey hit consecutive shots in the final minute of the game, including a turnaround jumpier at the charity stripe to give the Crimson Tide a 1-point lead at 68 ...
A miss from Notae off the top of the board at the other end was enough to seal the win for the Crimson Tide after a mid-court heave, as time expired, fell short. Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. Alabama basketball upended Arkansas, 68-67, Saturday at home to snap the Razorbacks' nine-game winning streak behind two clutch shots from Noah Gurley in the final moments and a disruptive defensive effort against JD Notae, the SEC's leading scorer.
Arkansas basketball didn't have a poll ranking prior to Saturday, no number to put in front of it to add yet another top ranked opponent to Alabama ...
Arkansas went on a 9-0 run to climb right back into the game. It had 15 turnovers in the first half. Meanwhile, Alabama climbed back into the game and built a lead. The game, set for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Coleman Coliseum, will be televised on ESPN2/U. His two buckets gave Alabama the 68-67 lead. It turned the ball over five times in a five-minute span. Arkansas rolled through SEC opponent after SEC opponent, including Auburn, the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 poll. But Alabama battled late to snap the run, thanks to two buckets from Charles Bediako. The Crimson Tide held a 37-32 lead at halftime. He stepped up when Alabama needed him most. And it's a good thing he did. The Crimson Tide went 6-for-12 from deep to start the game, which gave Alabama a 24-16 lead just over midway into the first half. Instead it had something perhaps more dangerous.
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The hottest team in the SEC came to Coleman Coliseum to face one of the league's most erratic basketball teams. Arkansas' ninth straight win Tuesday came ...
Darius Miles’ 3-pointer with 14:51 left -- Alabama’s only make from the perimeter in the final 30:06 -- gave the hosts its first 13-point lead. The edge was 60-47 after Rojas steal and dunk with 9:01 left but that’s where Arkansas got hot. Oats said they wanted Gurley and his fellow big bodies to take his share of 3s with the way Arkansas guards taller opponents. Charles Bediako scored five straight late in the half with a dunk punctuating his personal run. While the Tide committed 24 turnovers to the Razorbacks’ 16, Alabama outscored the visitors 24-16 on points off turnovers. What kept Alabama from paying for those miscues was defense and Arkansas’ response. Quinerly missed the front-end of the 1-and-1 with the rebound going to Davis. A few dribbles later, he had a clean look from mid-court that missed. “What happened was, with the way they play pick and rolls, (Jaylin) Williams dropped all the way back and our guards are coming off ball-screens and just firing and getting a bunch of non-assisted field goal attempts,” Oats said. The Crimson Tide connected on 6 of its first 11 and didn’t even take a shot inside the arc for nearly seven minutes while building an early lead. Gurley, whose 7.3-point scoring average is sixth on the team, later described the two key baskets he made in the stretch run. Some of them are just careless. “Some of them are playing scared, almost.