Alabama Basketball fans approach late February, early March with an annual rite of trepidation. While fans of the top college basketball programs fret over their projected NCAA Tournament seeding, we Alabama fans agonize.
The source of the agony is too many years of dashed hopes and deadened dreams. Alabama Basketball has made the NCAA Tournament field once in the last nine seasons. To even suggest the Tide has a sliver of a chance invites the risk of ridicule.
But … it is late February and to quote the immortal Yogi Berra, “it’s Deja Vu all over again.