Basketball Prediction Thread sponsored by Ely's - State vs Alabama

[dawgstudent]

17-3 (6-1). Losses to Purdue, Oregon and Ole Miss.

2024-25 Men's Basketball Schedule - Alabama Athletics

The official 2024-25 Men's Basketball schedule for the Alabama Crimson Tide

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[dawgstudent]

We just don't match up well with them but this is the game where we shoot lights out. I can feel it in my loins.

State 82 Alabama 75

 

[Choctaw Dawg]

Alabama 79
State 73

 

[columbiadawg2]

Bama 85
State 78

 

[KentuckyDawg13]

MSU 74 bama 72

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Bammer 85 MSU 82

 

[Air Raid 2.0]

81 - 77 State

 

[dgsmith15]

We just don't match up well with them but this is the game where we shoot lights out. I can feel it in my loins.

State 82 Alabama 75

 

[Shmuley]

17-3 (6-1). Losses to Purdue, Oregon and Ole Miss.

2024-25 Men's Basketball Schedule - Alabama Athletics

The official 2024-25 Men's Basketball schedule for the Alabama Crimson Tide

rolltide.com

Close enough to hurt. Again.

 

[maroonmania]

Bama 80 State 72. Just don't see this as a good matchup for us. Bama is another 3 point shooting team which we don't defend well.

 

[pseudonym]

Alabama 80, State 79

I hope to be wrong, obviously.

 

[JackShephard]

Gotta stick with what got us here (I like to believe I have some control over it).

Bama 88
State 74

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Is sears playing? Sears will go for 45.

Otherwise, his 45 is spread amongst a couple of rats.

This'll be another "thank goodness we beat Vanderbilt" game.

 

[POTUS]

Sears goes nuclear. Our offensive woes continue. But we get right against Mizzou.

 

[FlotownDawg]

Bama 80 State 72. Just don't see this as a good matchup for us. Bama is another 3 point shooting team which we don't defend well.

Bama shoots a lot of threes, but they don’t make them at a high rate. They are ranked 231st in the country at 32.5%. By comparison, Kentucky is 48th in the country at 36.9%. We are 254th at 32.1%. Bama really makes its hay from the free throw line. They are one of the best teams in the nation at free throw attempts and free throw makes per game. We need to keep them off the line, hope their three-point shooting stays on average and Hubbard finally has a good night shooting the ball. I’m optimistically hoping those things will happen
State 76, Bama 72

 

[pseudonym]

Alabama quad-1 away games:

• @ Purdue - L
• @ North Carolina - W
• @ Texas A&M - W
• @ Kentucky - W

State quad-1 home games:

• Kentucky - L
• Ole Miss - W

To this point, Alabama has been more impressive in this type of game.

 

[FreshAsHail]

17-3 (6-1). Losses to Purdue, Oregon and Ole Miss.

2024-25 Men's Basketball Schedule - Alabama Athletics

The official 2024-25 Men's Basketball schedule for the Alabama Crimson Tide

rolltide.com

ALABAMA 84, MSU 81 Yet another close heartbreaking loss.

 

[POTUS]

Bama shoots a lot of threes, but they don’t make them at a high rate.

 

[jackbaddawg]

Bamer 78 MSU 73

 

[Baddog11]

It will be the most lopsided officiated game you have ever watched (or at least since the last time we played bama) even the announcers will have a hard time explaining why the officials treat bama like they are their boss, deciding their fate.
There will be lots of booing. Give me Jans odds on a technical and subsequent ejection and I’d sprinkle a little money on it. We know after all these years what’s about to happen. Robbery.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

BAMA - 73
MSU - 63