Well, last week’s MGM Grand Main Event certainly could have gone better for the Alabama Crimson Tide (3-2). Avery Johnson’s squad looked, for lack of a better term, terrible. Losing to Valparaiso in the manner that Alabama did was bad enough, but it would have been nothing compared to the toxin that would have seeped all over Alabama’s resume had Saint Louis held on for the upset win in the consolation game. There is no way to sugar-coat it: Alabama looks like a bad basketball team right now.
Of course, it’s only been a few weeks, and there is still plenty of time for a group that includes six new-comers to gel and get this thing turned around.