Alabama basketball and the Mississippi State Bulldogs don’t quite face an elimination game Tuesday night. Both teams will have at least four more games after Tuesday – before learning their postseason fates.
With a win, one of the teams will greatly enhance its NCAA, at-large berth chances. The loser will limp forward with no further margin for error. Both head coaches are battlers to whom backing off is never an option. The game has all the ingredients needed for greatness.
Forget about the January contest in Tuscaloosa when Alabama basketball won 90-69. The Tide shot almost 42 percent outside the arc.