Roll ‘Bama Roll’s hoops previews have taken on the title, ‘Bama Basketball Breakdown’ since I started covering the basketball team five years ago. Breakdown, in this instance, meaning a breakdown of the coming match-up with whoever the opponent happens to be. But we may be searching for another name, because Alabama (5-3) had a complete breakdown, meaning collapse, in their last outing against Georgia State.
There is no other way to put it: Tuesday night’s meltdown against the Panthers was the worst loss of the Avery Johnson era. And that’s not to discredit Georgia State, they are a legitimately strong team that has as good of a chance as anyone in their conference of making it back to the NCAA Tournament come March.