Yesterday, Nate Oats had his final presser on eve of Alabama’s First Round meeting with the better-than-you-think play-in Fighting Irish. One thing in particular caught my eye — this tibit on maintaining discipline while still pressuring the Irish, who as we noted yesterday, are smart, tough, scrappy and don’t beat themselves.
“They’re a really good team,” Oats said. “Shoot, to beat Rutgers, Rutgers is tough. If you look at all the wins Rutgers had in the middle of the season, end of the season, for them to beat Rutgers in a game like that showed you how tough they are.