FAYETTEVILLE -- Alternative facts have crossed from politics into sports.
Alabama basketball Coach Avery Johnson put them there. Johnson didn't specifically apply the "alternative facts" that the Trump administration's Kellyanne Conway introduced to the national vocabulary, but he did utter an alternative facts disconnect.
He said statistics documenting the Arkansas Razorbacks' 99-71 loss in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge last Saturday at Oklahoma State didn't compute with what he saw during the Razorbacks in Wednesday night's 87-68 swamping of Johnson's Crimson Tide at Walton Arena.
Furthermore, he said Alabama's Wednesday Waterloo against the Razorbacks did not correlate to Alabama winning four of its past five SEC games.