What has been nicknamed the Iron Bowl of Basketball is there for Alabama and Auburn.
However, the ESPN analyst and the AU AUCH ALUN Davis cannot share the historic football tradition with basketball.
The “Ibob” has become a beloved title in the heart of many Crimson tide Fans, but some like Davis do not support it.
“I’m not sure I’m on board with all the basketball bowl,” Davis said on Friday.
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“I mean, everything people want to call is cool,” said Davis. “But for me, when you won as many championships at the conference as these two teams, they stand in a way alone.”
The analyst of “College Gameday”, Acvis, suggests that the basketball rivalry of Alabama-Auburn cannot even “need a name”
Davis suggested that the rivalry of Alabama and Auburn in basketball may not even “need a name”.
“Maybe you do it just like the Rocky Films, because they play twice, we know: “Davis joked”. They could play three times and could play four. “”
The first match in the Alabama-Auburn series starts at 3 p.m. at the Coleman Coliseum on Saturday with the broadcast of Gameday d’Espn from 9 a.m. to close the regular season, the Crimson Tide will go to the plains on March 8.
Emilee Smarr covers Alabama and Crimson Tide Athletics basketball for Tuscaloosa news. It can be contacted by e-mail at esmarr@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Tuscaloosa news: Acvis Davis of an uncertain ESPN if the Alabama-Auburn basketball rivalry needs a nickname
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