Alabama, as a basketball program, has been stuck in the mud now for a while. Since the 2006 season, there have been just three NCAA tournaments, no seasons with single digit losses, and just one season where they didn’t finish between 51 - 100 in KenPom.
Almost all of those years, through Mark Gottfried, Anthony Grant, and Avery Johnson, it felt like Alabama was likely to land in the low 60s in KenPom, look really good some nights, terrible on others, be decent defensively, but never break through.
All this despite the fact the Tide always recruited well.