The 3 points: to remember from victory n ° 7 of the Alabama on the n ° 1 Auburn

Auburn, Alary. – A basketball bowl with low play-in-play issues turned into an instant classic on Saturday. Of the five additional minutes of basketball were necessary during the 93-91 victory of Alabama against Auburn n ° 1. But the crimson tide put a heroic performance on the road and it was Mark Sears Who set sail to win it for Alabama with a buzzer float.

Sears has finished with only nine points, which normally spends Doom for Alabama given its importance. But he also managed the team with seven assists and raised his team when she needed him most. His teammates made a lot of heavy lifting at both ends, and an inspired Alabama was set up for a race in the most important ways, while tearing rights to boost his archrival.

Here are three points to remember from the victory of Alabama over Auburn

Alabama was much better around the edge than in its defeat against Florida. The two teams exchanged painting points to all matches, but it was the Alabama that put the late buckets inside to seal the victory.

The presence of the Alabama in the path was intense the whole game. It exceeded Auburn 20-16, including five o-boards which turned into 11 second chance points in the first half. The tide finished the first half with 22 of its 45 points in the painting and maintained this effort in the second period, winning the battle of rebound 41-33 and limiting Auburn to nine Boards O, while the tide caught 10 of itself.

Auburn has always had a lot of looks in the painting by his offensive side. Star John Broome Played as the national candidate of the player of the year he is, leading all the scorers with 16 points in the first half and ending with 34. Alabama let Clifford Omouryi,, Aiden Sherrell And even Give nelson Keep him in head, but Broome was too much for each of them, constantly turning to his right shoulder. When the Alabama sent help, he made a good dish to a teammate in the paint. In overtime, Broome has shown its range, buried two 3 to send it to a second extension

Unlike the first edition of this match, Alabama had its own answers in Broome in attack. In the first half, Nelson scored 15 points in the first 20 minutes. Nelson played the rebound, attacking his games aggressively and going to the rim without fear. He played with much more confidence and his 23 were the most marked in a match since the victory on the Alabama road against Kentucky in January.

Nelson had a second half quieter, but the collective effort of Alabama on the track kept the wave in the game. Omoruyi ended with 15, including a second half’s emphatic dunk, followed by a lot of waste with Auburn students. Sherrell had to play a great minutes with Omoruyi in big problems and increased occasionally, ending with eight points and seven rebounds in 16 minutes.

While the two teams tried to get advantage of the painting, none helped the free throw line. Alabama finished 66.7%, including two free throws missed per Chris Youngblood After Auburn Chad Baker-Mazara was expelled to flow it in the second half. Auburn was not much better, reaching 64.7% of its free throws. But it was the 4 out of 4 of the tide in overtime that helped make the difference in its narrow victory.

Alabama has a strong defensive change against the country’s most effective offensive. The tide limited Auburn to only eight attempts to deeply first half. While the tigers converted out of four of them, the Alabama did a good job by fighting through high ball screens and exploding dribble transfers to prevent the looks of capture and open shots.

Deep tigers ‘tigers’ firing volume was higher, but the Alabama challenged even when it did not succeed in screens fairly quickly. Auburn pulled 6 out of 18 in the last 20 minutes and overtime.

The Defense Halfcourt of the tide was sufficient to keep the game in the scale, but it was the transition game where the game was almost won for the two teams. Auburn scored its just part of points in transition and almost made the Alabama pay in the second half. After a sequence of 15-3 for Alabama, Auburn returned to resume the assault by generating a transitional offense. The tigers seemed to mark each time they were lucky to go out and run. After two rapid possessions of the empty Alabama, Auburn made a quick burst of 5-0 which forced the oats to call for a dead time with the Alabama hung on a three-point lead. Auburn scored 20 points out of 15 tidal gifts and finished with 10 flight points.

But Alabama refused to be outdone in an area it likes to dominate to win matches. Alabama scored 10 points on the nine Auburn reversals. The most critical came when Labanan Philon steal the ball Tahaad Pettiford in overtime. The Alabama collected 13 fast breakdown points in total.

The tide held Auburn to a single point by possession in the second half, increasingly increasing the pressure to compensate for the Broome score. held auburn Denver Jones Only nine points after scoring 16 in the first game. The ejection of Baker-Mazara canceled it as an offensive factor, and the Alabama continued to fight on screens and challenge the shots beyond the arc to prevent Auburn from spreading the Alabama offensively.

The Alabama did not dug a quick hole as it did in the first match. The tide dropped 9-0 in Coleman and never recovered, but came out with much better intensity on Saturday than the first time against Auburn and in his last match against Florida.

There were not too many denigration incidents in the first matchuo Ibob. But a game that had fewer participation in the playoffs and resisted itself with pure boastful rights turned into a classic in first half. Youngblood was called to a fault on Broome which was examined for a blatant. Nelson posed a crimson crane after a vicious dunk on Auburn Dylan CardwellMaking the favor after Aburn struck the pose after his victory to Coleman. This game was also examined.

The adjustment of the attitude of the Alabama after the loss of Florida resulted in a solid first half on the ground that oats were looking for. Alabama collected the same number of assists – eight – in the first 20 minutes as all the first confrontation against Auburn. Youngblood has converted a layout of a game coming out of a dead time with five minutes to do. Auburn generated points, but the Alabama settled the tempo and was the best team on the glass, which raised the tide in the second period and in overtime.

Alabama will go to Nashville, Tennessee, for the SEC tournament. The Tide will play her first game on Friday as a seeded n ° 3 after his massive victory in Auburn.