Regular-Season Finale Next up for Alabama Women’s Basketball

Sunday, February 28

Fayetteville, Ark.

5 p.m. CT

Alabama

Arkansas

Regular-Season Finale Next up for Alabama Women’s Basketball

2/27/2021 1:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Crimson Tide heads to Arkansas to face the No. 16 Razorbacks on Sunday at 5 p.m.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's basketball team will close out its 2020-21 regular-season slate on Sunday, traveling to face the No. 16 Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville. Tip is set for 5 p.m. CT in Bud Walton Arena.

FOLLOW ALONG

Sunday's game will air live on the SEC Network with Eric Frede and Christy Thomaskutty on the call and can also be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network (WTBC-AM 1230 in Tuscaloosa) with Roger Hoover providing the play-by-play.

OPENING TIP

Alabama enters Sunday's regular-season finale with a 15-7 overall record and 8-7 mark in SEC play.
The Tide is currently No. 7 in the SEC standings.
Alabama ranks 31^st in the NET with six of its seven losses coming to teams ranked 18 or better in the NET in No. 3 (South Carolina, twice), No. 13 (Texas A&M), No. 14 (Tennessee), No. 15 (Georgia) and No. 18 (Kentucky).
The Tide is one of seven SEC teams ranked in the top 31 of the NET.
Alabama's 75.0 point-per-game average is the highest average it has had in nearly two decades.
The Tide is No. 1 in the SEC in free throw percentage (75.3) and top two in the league in nearly every three-point shooting category.
Alabama is led by its big three of Ariyah Copeland, Jordan Lewis and Jasmine Walker. Walker leads the way, averaging just shy of a double-double with 20.4 points and 9.9 rebounds, while Lewis adds 16.5 points, 4.4 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game and Copeland 14.4 points and 8.3 boards per outing.
Alabama has one of the top three-point shooters in the SEC and in the nation in Walker, who leads the league, and ranks top 15 nationally, in three-pointers per game (3.14), made (69) and attempted (165) and is No. 3 in the SEC in percentage (41.6).
Walker is also the only player in the SEC to rank in the top five in the conference in both scoring and rebounding.
Walker was named SEC Player of the Week last week following her record-setting performance at Auburn where she scored 41 to become Alabama's single-game scoring leader.
Walker was also recently named a finalist for the 2021 Katrina McClain Award and to the Naismith Trophy Women's Midseason Team.
The Tide has one of the most experienced point guards in the SEC in Lewis, who has started every game she's played in since she arrived on campus in 2016 (125 games).
Lewis is also the SEC's active leader in assists (491) and is No. 4 in career steals (156), No. 5 in career points (1,485) and No. 14 in career rebounds (509).

SERIES NOTES

Sunday's meeting is the 40th in the series that began back in 1980.
Arkansas leads the series, 24-15, and has won the last three straight and nine of the last 10 between the Tide and Razorbacks.
Alabama's last victory against Arkansas came on Jan. 7, 2018 in Fayetteville by a score of 83-76.

Last Five Meetings

Jan. 30, 2020		L	48-66	Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Jan. 24, 2019		L	61-72	Fayetteville, Ark.
Feb. 4, 2018		L	66-74	Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Jan. 7, 2018	W		83-76	Fayetteville, Ark.
Jan. 15, 2017		L	50-68	Tuscaloosa, Ala.

ABOUT ARKANSAS

Arkansas is 18-7 this season and 8-6 in SEC play.
The Razorbacks are currently one spot ahead of the Tide in the conference standings at sixth.
Arkansas is 11-1 at home this season with the lone loss coming in a one-point decision against Texas A&M, 74-73.
Last time out, the Razorbacks escaped Auburn Arena with a 74-69 victory over the Tigers to win their fourth straight.
Arkansas has four players averaging over 10.0 points a game, led by the top scorer in the SEC in Chelsea Dungee with 22.3 points per game.
The Razorbacks are the top-shooting team from three-point range in the SEC, hitting 39.4 percent.
Arkansas is led by fourth-year head coach Mike Neighbors, who has the most wins in the nation of any coach that has led a program for seven or fewer seasons. The Razorbacks have shown progression in the SEC standings each year since he arrived, finishing third at the conclusion of the 2019-20 season.

LAST TIME OUT

Alabama battled back to chip a 21-point deficit down to five late in the fourth, however the Crimson Tide would come no closer with time running short in the 73-67 loss to No. 3 Texas A&M on Thursday.
Lewis led the way offensively with a game-high 21 points, while Walker recorded a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Copeland added 13 points and six rebounds, and Destiny Rice played a solid 20 minutes off the bench recording 10 points and a career-best seven rebounds.
Megan Abrams and Hannah Barber added six points each, while Abrams also chipped in four assists and five rebounds to the mix.
The Tide outrebounded the Aggies, 37-32, and had 10 three-pointers in the game.
Texas A&M was able to score 36 points in the paint and took advantage of its 12 trips to the free throw line, making 11.
Walker recorded her 12th double-double of the season and 22nd of her career.
Lewis drew her seventh 20-plus point game this season, all of which have come in SEC play.

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