No. 2 Alabama eliminates 17-point deficit, wins SEC
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.– Alabama’s players stood at midcourt, throwing on T-shirts to celebrate an SEC regular-season championship. They did it in your home versus their biggest competitor, in a comeback that the school had not experienced for a minimum of a decade.They brought
out signs celebrating a title and cut down internet after a 90-85 overtime win versus Auburn on Wednesday. It was a frenetic game that culminated in Alabama’s 2nd regular-season conference title in 3 years.The Crimson Tide trailed by 17 points with 10:49 left in the second half, making it Alabama’s most significant return given that a minimum of the 2010-11 season. It was also the school’s very first overtime triumph over Auburn given that 1985. It was a contest that saw 3 Auburn starters– forwards Jaylin Williams and Johni Broome and guard Allen Flanigan– foul out and two Alabama players ejected for leaving the bench during a little spoken tussle in between Auburn’s Wendell Green Jr. and K.D. Johnson and Alabama’s Jahvon Quinerly, who appeared to toss the ball at Broome after encountering the lane for a steal.Editor’s Picks 1 Related Quinerly, who led the Crimson Tide with 24 points, then ran into Green, causing the spoken interaction. Rylan Griffen and Charles Bediako
came off the bench and ran towards the run-in that the referees quickly broke up, and both were ejected. Alabama coach Nate Oats said he was fretted about his team losing momentum at the time of the argument, which featured 7:31 staying and the Tide down 66-58. It was part of a 16-point run that brought Alabama back in the game and assisted it force overtime and ultimately win an SEC title
— a championship and a season that has actually had the continuous pointer of a murder investigation surrounding it because the shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Jonae Harris on Jan. 15 near Alabama’s campus.”I could not be more proud of this group, to be truthful with you,”Oats stated. “Certainly, it’s a heartbreaking situation that’s
never ever lost on us. But the kids have actually worked really hard. Winning the SEC is not an easy thing to do.”After the game, the school did not make players offered to reporters for the sixth straight media session.The past two weeks have seen increased examination of Alabama and its No.
2 basketball program for off-court reasons.Testimony in a Feb. 21 preliminary hearing for the murder of Harris exposed that Alabama’s best player, Brandon Miller, had driven the vehicle that contained the weapon used in the shooting. Miller’s ex-teammate, Darius Miles, presumably offered the gun utilized to eliminate Harris to the supposed shooter, Michael Lynn Davis. Miles and Davis are facing capital murder charges.Miller’s lawyer, Jim Standridge, said Miller did not know the weapon remained in his lorry and never managed the weapon. Oats and authorities say Miller has been complying with the investigation, and he has not been charged with any crime. Alabama’s Brandon Miller commemorates the school’s SEC regular-season title by cutting down the webs after the win over Auburn. He scored 17 points. Brandon Sumrall/Getty Images Alabama decided to allow Miller to continue to play, and he scored a career-high 41 points the following night, a Feb. 22 win at South Carolina, then had a team-high 24 in a victory over checking out Arkansas on Saturday.The controversy followed, however, as Miller and a walk-on member of the team carried out a pregame introduction regimen on Saturday that Miller had used frequently this season– a TSA-like pat-down. Oats stated Tuesday it would not take place once again, and Miller did not use the introduction prior to Wednesday’s game.Against Auburn, Miller scored 17 points, going 3-of-12
from the field and making 10 of 11 free tosses in 39 minutes.Alabama next plays on Saturday at Texas A&M, prior to next week’s SEC tournament.