Alabama one game shy of tying 1995-96 Kentucky for most 100-point games by SEC team in a season

The Alabama basketball team is getting into some rarefied air with its powerful offense.

After a 100-75 win over Texas A&M on Saturday, the Crimson Tide have now scored 100 or more points in eight different games this year, a mark that leads the country by a wide margin.

According to ESPN Stats and Info, no other team in the country has hit 100 points more than five times this season.

The only SEC team to put up 100 points eight or more times in the last 30 years was 1995-96 Kentucky, a team that went on to win the national championship and was an absolute offensive juggernaut. Alabama has that same kind of potential if it keeps scoring the way it does.

While some of Alabama’s 100-point outings have come against significantly inferior opponents, the last three have come against SEC foes: against LSU twice and against Texas A&M.

The Crimson Tide have gotten their scoring from a wide array of players, but only four players are currently averaging double figures.

The leader among them is a huge part of Alabama’s punch. Guard Mark Sears is averaging 20.5 points per game and has produced a 20-point outing in eight straight games now. He has topped 30 points twice.

His streak of 20 points in eight or more games is the longest by an Alabama player in the last 20 seasons, according to ESPN’s Cole Cubelic.

All of this, of course, is setting Alabama up for the postseason.

And on Saturday, the first reveal of the current top 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament from the selection committee showed Alabama is in great shape to receive a quality seed.

The Crimson Tide were tabbed as the No. 3 seed in the South Region by the committee.

Of course, first Alabama has six regular season games and the SEC Tournament to close things out. Next up is a tilt with surging Florida, at home. That game will be played on Wednesday with a 7 p.m. tipoff time on ESPN2.