Tuesday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama basketball was outplayed from start to finish by the Richmond Spiders. Unlike football, where outcomes invariably come down to a small number of great plays, basketball games can be won without a single great play. In basketball, teams can win with good plays, made over and over and over.
That is exactly how Richmond defeated the Crimson Tide 71-64 in the NIT opening round. The outcome of the game is no fluke for close followers of basketball. The truth is Alabama never really had much of a chance.
SEC teams do not often see the style of basketball played by the Spiders.