It is B-ball time in T-Town on Tuesday night as Alabama basketball opens the regular season against Southern University. In his fourth season as Crimson Tide head coach, Avery Johnson will look to notch win No. 1 in the new season against the school he played for as a collegian.
Avery still holds the NCAA Assists-per-game, career and single-season records at 12 assists average for his career and 13.3 average assists in the 1987-88 season at Southern. The 2018-19 Southern Jaguars are not expected to provide tough opposition to the Crimson Tide. The Jaguars are preseason picks as the sixth best team in the Southwestern Atlantic conference.