Mississippi State may have come into Coleman tonight at 1-6 in SEC play, but they showed up intending to win. They brought a level of intensity to the floor that Alabama hasn’t seen often in the early season. To make things even tougher, the Tide had a rough night shooting the three pointer.
Still, the Tide just had a little too much firepower at the end and they managed to overcome what had been a seven point halftime deficit to stay unbeaten in SEC play. As Nate Oats has said, if the defense shows up to play every night then the three will simply determine the margin of victory, and that was the case on this night.