NASHVILLE — The rousing cheers for Brandon Miller began during the announcement of the starting lineup and continued with each 3-pointer he knocked down, each rebound he gobbled up and each assist he dished out in Alabama’s 72-49 rout on Friday of Mississippi State in a Southeastern Conference men’s basketball tournament quarterfinal.
The applause commenced just as prosecutors in Tuscaloosa, Ala., some 250 miles away, announced that a grand jury had returned a capital murder indictment against Miller’s former teammate, Darius Miles, and Miles’s friend Michael Davis, in a case in which Miller and another Alabama player, Jaden Bradley, had been interviewed as witnesses.