Following Alabama’s huge road win against the South Carolina Gamecocks on Tuesday night, the Crimson Tide now find themselves at 17-11 (8-7 SEC) with three games left to play in the regular season. As the calendar flips to March, the annual and inevitable question among college basketball fans everywhere remains: are we in? And if we aren’t, what do we need to do to get there?
For Avery Johnson’s club, the answer might surprise the more pessimistic portion of the Tide Hoops fan base, because the Tide are really close to securing an at-large bid. Nothing can ever be certain when it comes to the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee and how they operate, especially since this is the first year they’ve subbed their new NET rankings in for the old, antiquated RPI metric, but Alabama is very likely only a win away from making a second straight appearance in the Big Dance.