The public address echoes Coleman Coliseum on Saturday – not to celebrate an Alabama Basketball basket but to put the rowdy fans in dead time.
Objects were launched on the field of the student section while the No. 1 Crimson Tide clashed not only in the best classified basketball match in Alabama against Auburn, but the highest match between two opponents dry.
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With about nine minutes to play the counter, Alabama coach Nate Oats has always found time to back down in the shoes he wore as a mathematics teacher at Romulus High in Michigan. By dragging 63-60, the oats torn off the microphone to scold the crowd.
“The one who threw stuff on the ground, dropped it,” exploded oats. “We are trying to win a basketball match. We don’t need you to also cost us points.”
Oats have given the microphone to the office and its activities coaching the game.
It is a story in development. Come back for updates after the match.
Emilee Smarr covers Alabama and Crimson Tide Athletics basketball for Tuscaloosa news. It can be contacted by e-mail at esmarr@gannett.com.
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