Retin Obasohan led three players in double figures with 18 as the Tide defeated Kennesaw State 77-64 Friday night.
The Avery Johnson era began in Tuscaloosa with a solid, although sloppy, 77-64 victory over the Kennesaw State Owls of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The game was played before a excited crowd of 14,970, the largest opening day crowd since a capacity crowd of 15,043 in 1989 when the Tide played the North Carolina Tar Heels.
'Bama opened with a starting five of Jimmie Taylor, Shannon Hale, Arthur Edwards, Dazon Ingram and Retin Obasohan.