Well, that was something, wasn’t it? Apologies to the Mississippi State Bulldogs, they didn't deserve to be absolutely embarrassed like that yesterday, but the Crimson Tide wasn’t playing. Honestly, there isn’t a team in college basketball that would have beaten Alabama the way it was playing yesterday. That team is capable of playing into April. The scary thing is that the Tide didn’t even shoot that well (13/36 from three). Imagine what a hot shooting night would look like with that kind of performance.
With the Tide’s evisceration of Mississippi State now in the rearview mirror, Nate Oats has to quickly get his guys ready to go back out and do the same thing today against a much better opponent - the fourth-seeded Tennessee Volunteers (18-7, 10-7 SEC, NET: 18, Kenpom: 20).