They always have an excuse
I know some don't like the fan turnout for basketball games, but what do you expect?
Suttles tweeted at 5:06 last night "If you're heading 20/59 Tuscaloosa bound from Birmingham, good luck. Traffic is backed up for miles."
That's no excuse to me. Seems pretty reasonable. Tipoff is at 6 on a Wednesday night. 20/59 has never been the easiest interstate when it comes to traffic. A wreck or construction only makes it worse. Therefore, fans are delayed in getting to the game, or some might hear about the road issues and decide to stay in Birmingham.
This discussion is had every year. Weeknight games are not going to be well attended by those outside of Tuscaloosa unless it's a big game because of location and time.
A solution would be to either let season ticket holders give their tickets back for games and open those seats up to anyone or allow season ticket holders to only buy weekend games at a lesser price and then allow anyone to buy those seats.
Run some promotions or something to get the Tuscaloosa area crowd to the games to make up for the lack of the Birmingham and Montgomery crowd.