Alabama: Happy Bracket Day

[CajunCrimson]

From SDS:

Predicting how far every SEC team will go in the NCAA Tournament

I just don’t see Tennessee at Elite 8. A single hot shooting team beats them. They can’t put up enough points consistently.

 

[AUDub]

I just don’t see Tennessee at Elite 8. A single hot shooting team beats them. They can’t put up enough points consistently.

For us, I'm more worried about Miami than I would be Wisconsin. Guard heavy teams can go far in March if they start shooting hot, and Miami's best players are their guards.

Wisconsin is also probably overseeded.

 

[CajunCrimson]

 

[BamaMike05]

For us, I'm more worried about Miami than I would be Wisconsin. Guard heavy teams can go far in March if they start shooting hot, and Miami's best players are their guards.

Wisconsin is also probably overseeded.

USC can give you guys trouble too. Their defensive percentage vs 2 point shooting is less than 40%. They have the interior defense to give Kessler trouble on the PNR. Especially without him being fully healthy.

 

[BAMAVILLE]

March Madness 2022: Everything you need to know about all 68 men's teams

From Gonzaga to Wright State, here's your look at every team appearing in the 2022 men's NCAA tournament field.

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Pretty much spot on ...

Alabama Crimson Tide

You'll get a headache if you try to understand Alabama's 2021-22 season. The Crimson Tide own wins over Gonzaga, Houston, Baylor, Tennessee, LSU and Arkansas, victories that helped them proceed through the season knowing they had an at-large bid mostly locked up. They finished the regular season in the 90s in adjusted defensive efficiency on KenPom, however, putting them among teams that are volatile in the postseason.

The same Alabama team, led by Jaden Shackelford (16.7 PPG), has losses to Iona, Missouri and Georgia. A more recent snapshot of this crew, which plays at a top-20 pace, doesn't help, either: Since Valentine's Day, Alabama has made 55.9% of its shots inside the arc, per Barttorvik.com. That's good, right? But Nate Oats' squad has also committed turnovers nearly once every four trips up the floor. That's not good. This feels like a team that either marches to an Elite Eight appearance or gets stopped in the first round.

 

[AUDub]

USC can give you guys trouble too. Their defensive percentage vs 2 point shooting is less than 40%. They have the interior defense to give Kessler trouble on the PNR. Especially without him being fully healthy.

He looked way healthier against aTm than he had in past weeks. Hope the extended rest helps as well.

 

[BamaMike05]

Congrats but they are only the bid because of an idiotic NCAA rule.

At the end of the day, they were still regular season champions of the league. IMO a regular season championship is more impressive than getting hit over a 3-4 day period.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

At the end of the day, they were still regular season champions of the league. IMO a regular season championship is more impressive than getting hit over a 3-4 day period.

True, but had Bellermine won the regular season, they still wouldn't have gotten in due to that same stupid rule.

 

[BamaMike05]

True, but had Bellermine won the regular season, they still wouldn't have gotten in due to that same stupid rule.

But they didn’t. JSU did, and deserved to be in the tournament. One could argue that it’s stupid to be able to earn an auto bid off of a 3 or 4 day hot steak.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Norlander Love.