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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - The Alabama basketball team will provide a sneak preview at 7 p.m. today with an exhibition game against a team that isn't going to sneak up on the Crimson Tide.

UAH, ranked No. 2 in the preseason NCAA Division II poll, visits Coleman Coliseum for the second consecutive season.

A year ago, the Chargers lost 73-68 in double overtime.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/11/uah_will_test_crimson_tide_ton.html

Wow, I am ready for this and I hope some of our members of CRS can make it as well. RTR!!!  :clap:

Bama started their season tonight beating UAH 67-60. It wasn't the prettiest game to watch but Bama got a good test from UAH and I think they come away from this game learning a lot about themselves. At times Bama looked like barnburners then at times they looked like they had a lot of underclassmen on the team and they do, Bama started two freshmen tonight.

UAH has a quality basketball program, they are well coached and have some very good shooters on the team, they were firing up some long threes and making them. They gave Bama exactly what Bama needed, a close ball game.

Good report.  :clap:

So the outside shooting was better?

The first half it was, I found a link with the story of the game.


http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/110711aaa.html

UAH is a quality Div II school. They took us to Double OT last year. It looks like Greene, Mitchell and Releford played well. Based on the stats it looked like Rodney cooper had the best game of the new guys. He played 29 minutes and had 8 points. Randolph and Lacey's numbers did not look so good. Hankerson had good stats in the few minutes he played.

We get those young guys up to speed and this team will be fun to watch.

AL.com article link:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/11/veterans_shine_as_tide_holds_o.html

Thanks for the report.  It sounds like the freshmen have their work cut out for them.

Not bad at all: 50% from the floor 41% 3s

Probably that game (Div II) doesn't count in the home win streak.

With Bama shooting so well in the first half, UAH made an adjustment at the half and played a tenacious zone the second half. This really exposed the weakness of the younger players trying to work the ball inside to Green and Mitchell, it was very physical with Green getting one technical called on him. The younger players weren't as quick to pull the trigger from the outside against the zone as I thought they would do, probably because UAH was sagging underneath and made it almost impossible to get an offensive rebound. They learned a lot tonight but will have to learn to trust their shot more against these zones.

This is why this game was so good for Bama because they will see a lot of zone defenses this year and I don't think any of them will be any better than what UAH played. UAH's Smith was the guy that kept the game close, he was deadly from long range and just as deadly from the free throw line.

The fact that we forced them to go zone in the second half is a huge improvement.

Good stuff Jamos. More information than the two articles I read. We have to learn how to attack the zone. We will see a lot of it this year until we either beat it or shoot our way out of it. This was a good oppontent for an exhibition game. You can not learn much from beating an under manned team by 50 points. I did like the comment from the UAH coach who said we are a much better team than they played last year.

I would venture to say CAG saw our weakness tonight and he will build on that no doubt. He is going to take us places we have not been in a long time. RTR!

The link below is an excellant article by RollBamaRoll that has a lot of good information about last nights game.


http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2011/11/8/2547180/observations-from-basketball-scrimmage#storyjump