College basketball, rightly or wrongly, does not measure success by regular season play. Even winning a conference tournament is secondary to the seasonal goal of making the Big Dance. Alabama basketball fans can never count on a NCAA bid.
While the fans of college basketball blue-bloods only concern themselves with NCAA Tournament seeding, it is different in Tuscaloosa. Seemingly a perennial bubble team, Alabama basketball fans either sweat Selection Sunday every season or bemoan another NIT bracket.
NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch
Alabama basketball has an NCAA NET Rating of 45, a Strength of Schedule (SOS) of 19 and an RPI of 32.