How Alabama basketball made its way back to the top of the SEC standings
New York TimesIt’s hard to sneak up on anybody when you’re less than a year removed from winning 31 games and earning the No. If we’re going to win, we need him out on the floor playing super hard every possession.” Sears has apparently figured that out, because he’s leading the SEC in scoring and has been off-the-charts good through Alabama’s first nine league games: 21.3 points, 4.1 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 2.1 steals while shooting 51 percent from the field, 44 percent from 3 and 95 percent at the free-throw line. “I’m not sure people realized how much we had to replace, from players to staff,” Oats said. “Based on expected value, the quality of shots both teams took, we should’ve won most of those games,” Oats said. Us being in first place halfway through validates the fact that, even though people were definitely questioning it, there was some wisdom in the staff we hired and some wisdom in the transfers we brought in.” It’s almost as if Oats, who is in position to win a third SEC title in four years, knows exactly what he’s doing.
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