Click here for linkAlabama came home after a demoralizing loss at Memphis on Tuesday, looking to get rid of some of that bad taste against Jacksonville State. They ultimately got it done, but it wasn’t pretty.
The first half was uglier than grandma’s curtains. The Tide scored only 29 points, the lowest total for any half of the season. Keon Ellis had 14 at the break, and to be frank he was the only thing keeping the Tide in the game. The starting backcourt of Jahvon Quinerly and Jaden Shackelford, often lauded as among the best in the nation, combined for four points with three of them coming on a Quinerly buzzer beater. The defense really wasn’t all that great either, but the Tide somehow managed to take a skinny one point lead into the break at 29-28....