Tide used two streaks to win...
Alabama used a red-hot 19-4 start and then added a 22-0 run in the second half to put a way a game but out-manned Northeastern. The final score was 62-43 and near the end the only drama was whether the visitors could score 40 points. They did and had to fight for everyone of them. It should be noted that the top player for Northeastern did not dress to an injury. The Crimson Tide finally found an opponent that the could dominate inside. Not all of those paint points came from either of the Tide's two big men, but was an accumulation of points by all the Tide.
Someone asked me to describe the game today. I told them I went to an NIT basketball game and a 40 minute nap broke out. Only 2500 turned out to support the Tide. Coleman might have been Grant's tomb for all the silence coming from the stands. For Alabama the win was a recovery from the Florida game and gave them their 22nd game to top 12 losses. The Tide will play the Stanford Cardinal (19-14) who played a thriller last night over Stephen F. Austin 58-57. The game tips off at 11 in the morning this Saturday.
I didn't expect a big crowd last night. But at 9 dollars a ticket I thought we might have drawn 8,000. You could have set off a hand grenade in the upper half of the stands and no one would have been hurt. 2,500 is a number that should completely embarrass Tide fans. I suspect that number might represent the real base number of die hard fans who support the program with their money and attendance. I understand that Bobby Knight who was the color man for the game commented about absence of fans. I talked with Coach Knight after the game. He's a nice man who loves basketball, and he said it was hard to believe how few people were in attendance. Coach Knight is a lot like Wimp in many ways. I bet their hearts don't beat but bounce like a basketball. Hope a few more people will come out this weekend. I know the students are on Spring break but honestly they don't come out in large numbers anyway. A little home crowd support goes a long way. The PAC 12 is a good basketball league and this game will be highly competitive.
Randolph leads the way...
Embarrassingly small crowd supports the Crimson...
Someone asked me to describe the game today. I told them I went to an NIT basketball game and a 40 minute nap broke out. Only 2500 turned out to support the Tide. Coleman might have been Grant's tomb for all the silence coming from the stands. For Alabama the win was a recovery from the Florida game and gave them their 22nd game to top 12 losses. The Tide will play the Stanford Cardinal (19-14) who played a thriller last night over Stephen F. Austin 58-57. The game tips off at 11 in the morning this Saturday.
I didn't expect a big crowd last night. But at 9 dollars a ticket I thought we might have drawn 8,000. You could have set off a hand grenade in the upper half of the stands and no one would have been hurt. 2,500 is a number that should completely embarrass Tide fans. I suspect that number might represent the real base number of die hard fans who support the program with their money and attendance. I understand that Bobby Knight who was the color man for the game commented about absence of fans. I talked with Coach Knight after the game. He's a nice man who loves basketball, and he said it was hard to believe how few people were in attendance. Coach Knight is a lot like Wimp in many ways. I bet their hearts don't beat but bounce like a basketball. Hope a few more people will come out this weekend. I know the students are on Spring break but honestly they don't come out in large numbers anyway. A little home crowd support goes a long way. The PAC 12 is a good basketball league and this game will be highly competitive.
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