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The penultimate week of the Southeastern Convention common season will get underway for No. 25 Alabama and Vanderbilt on Tuesday once they sq. off in Nashville.
The Crimson Tide (17-10, 7-7 SEC) are in a four-way tie for fifth place within the convention with LSU, Florida and South Carolina after squandering a 13-point lead in a 90-81 loss at Kentucky on Saturday. Keon Ellis scored 28 factors and Jaden Shackelford added 18 within the setback.
Alabama was let down by its protection, as Kentucky shot 53.2 % from the sector and 64.3 % from 3-point vary.
“We saved telling them by the new begin that our protection wasn’t going to be adequate to win the sport,” Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats stated. “And that is what ended up taking place — 1.48 (factors per possession) on the finish of the sport is what we gave up defensively. Our offense was one hundred pc adequate to win this sport, however we could not get stops once we wanted to.”
The defensive problem won’t get any simpler for Alabama with the SEC’s main scorer Scotty Pippen Jr. (19.5 factors per sport) and Vanderbilt (14-12, 6-8) subsequent on the slate.
The Commodores jumped as much as tenth within the convention standings with a 72-67 dwelling win over Texas A&M on Saturday. Pippen scored 24 factors for Vanderbilt, which acquired 62 factors from its beginning 5 within the win.
“Nice win,” Commodores head coach Jerry Stackhouse stated. “That workforce (Texas A&M) is hard to play, one of many higher defensive groups in our league.”
Tuesday is the one scheduled assembly of the season between the groups, and the primary since Alabama’s slender 82-78 win within the matchup final season.
That sport featured massive scoring nights from two gamers who determine to do the identical on Tuesday. Shackelford scored 27 factors in that sport for Alabama, whereas Pippen added 24 for Vanderbilt.
Alabama received 77-62 the final time the groups met in Nashville again in Jan. 22, 2020.
–Discipline Degree Media
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