No. 1/1 Alabama Faces Georgia Saturday in Coleman Coliseum
2/17/2023 4:35:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Crimson Tide play their first Saturday game at home in over a month
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – For the first time since Jan. 14, the No. 1/1 Alabama men's basketball team will play a Saturday game at Coleman Coliseum, as the Crimson Tide host Georgia on Feb. 18. Alabama is looking for its 23rd win, which would match the program record for most wins through the first 27 games of the season (1975-76 season).Â
Alabama's Brandon Miller enters the game as the Southeastern Conference's leading scorer, averaging 18.7 points per game, while Georgia's Terry Roberts ranks No. 12 in the SEC, scoring 14.3 points per contest.Â
The Broadcast
Saturday's game is set for a 5 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on the SEC Network with Dave Neal (play-by-play) and Joe Kleine (analyst) on the call.
The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.
Notes You Need To Know
- For the second time in program history and first since the 2002-03 season, Alabama is ranked No. 1 in the AP Top-25 Poll
- For the first time in program history Alabama is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Top-25 Poll
- For the second time in the last three seasons, Alabama Head Coach Nate Oats was named to the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Men's Coach of the Year (Finished in the Top-4 in 2021)
- Alabama has posted five wins over top-25 opponents in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history, going 10-6 over the span
- Alabama is 14-13 against AP Top 25 teams during Nate Oats' tenure
- Alabama has won 10 SEC games by double digits, which is the second-most in program history (The 1955-56 team won 11 SEC games by double-digits)
- Alabama has won by an averaging scoring margin of +26.3 points following a loss this season
- The Crimson Tide is one of two schools (Houston) to rank in the top-15 in both defense adjusted efficiency (No. 4) and in offense adjusted efficiency (No. 15) according to KenPom
- Miller is the only player in Division I to score 480 points, record 210 rebounds and make 77 three-pointers this season
- The Crimson Tide are 3-0 on Saturday at Coleman Coliseum this season, winning by an average of 26.3 points
- Alabama's freshmen have scored 52 percent (1,131 points) of the Tide's points this season led by Miller's 18.7 points per game
About GeorgiaÂ
- With the Bulldogs win over LSU to start the week, UGA has won as many SEC games in head coach Mike White's first season in Athens as they did overall during the entire 2021-22 campaign
- Eight different Dogs have been used to comprise 11 different starting lineups for UGA this season
- All 12 Dogs who have logged playing time this season are averaging double-digit minutes per game
- Seven different Dogs have made double-digit 3s this season, the most since eight did so in 1997-98
- UGA is ranked No. 2 nationally in bench minutes, with reserves logging 45.4 percent of the Dogs' PT
- UGA's assist-to-TO ratio is up by +.26 since Thanksgiving, the best improvement by an SEC team during that span
- Georgia is 13-2 at home this season, putting the Bulldogs within one victory of matching the record for regular-season wins at Stegeman Coliseum during the venue's 60-season history
- Jailyn Ingram is 4 points from 1,500 for his career while Justin Hill is eight assists from 300 for his career and 59 points from 1,000 for his career
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