It’s finally Opening Day of the 2023 NCAA Tournament, and your top-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide will be opening up play relatively early in the day. The twice-over SEC champs will have the benefit of beginning their March journey with a match-up with the 16th seeded Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Islanders, who do shoot the ball quite well from the arc and the line. Regardless, Alabama is favored by 24-points in this one, so the Tide should roll into the Second Round quite easily. But again, the Islanders - who already have a win in this year’s event - are surprisingly strong in a couple of key areas of the game.
NCAA Tournament First Round Game Thread: #1 Alabama v #16 Texas A&M CC
