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No. 8 Seed Alabama Completes Final Practice in Preparation for First Round of NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament
3/21/2024 9:18:00 PM | Women's Basketball
The eighth-seeded Crimson Tide will face ninth-seeded Florida State on Friday at 4:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 8-seeded Alabama women's basketball team took the floor at the Moody Center to finish preparing for its opening First Round NCAA Tournament game against No. 9 seed Florida State. The Crimson Tide (23-9) and Seminoles (23-10) will tipoff at approximately 4:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2.
Prior to practice, head coach Kristy Curry and student-athletes Sarah Ashlee Barker and Aaliyah Nye met with reporters. During its 90-minute practice session, the Tide worked on individual skills, positional drills, offensive and defensive sets and continued reviewing its game plan for Friday's contest.
Successful first day in ATX!#RollTide #GLG pic.twitter.com/5AN5bie1ny
— Alabama Women's Basketball (@AlabamaWBB) March 21, 2024
Broadcast Information
- Friday's contest is set to tipoff on ESPN2 with Tiffany Green (play-by-play) and Jimmy Dykes (analyst) on the call
- The radio broadcast will air on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Roger Hoover on the call
Alabama in the NCAA Tournament
- Alabama earned its 13th NCAA Tournament berth on Selection Sunday
- The Crimson Tide will make its third tournament appearance in the last four years
- Head Coach Kristy Curry will make her 12th trip to the NCAA Tournament, after capturing berths to the Big Dance at Purdue (2000-06) and Texas Tech (2011, 13) prior to UA's 2021 appearance
- Alabama is 17-12 all-time in the NCAA Tournament
- The Crimson Tide's deepest run came in 1994 with the team advancing to the Final Four
About Alabama
- The Crimson Tide has scored 2,351 points which ranks sixth in the Southeastern Conference
- The Tide is fourth in both three-point field goal percentage (.349) three-point field goal percentage defense (.291) in the conference
- Alabama is fifth in the SEC in field goal percentage (.435)
- Aaliyah Nye leads the conference in three-point field goals made with 104, which is third-best in the nation
- Essence Cody continues to pace the Tide in rebounds (6.4 rpg) and blocks (1.9 bpg)
- In her first season, Cody received SEC Freshman of the Week honor four times (Nov. 28, Jan. 30, Feb. 27 and March 4)
- Cody made all 32 starts for the Tide, averaging 22.2 minutes, 9.6 points per game and led the team with 201 rebounds (6.3 rpg)
- Sarah Ashlee Barker leads Alabama with 533 points (17.2 ppg) which ranks fifth in the SEC, while also ranking fourth in field goal percentage at 50.1 percent
- Barker recorded 25 games in double-digit scoring, including three double-doubles games
- Loyal McQueen leads the team at the stripe, shooting 79.5 percent from the free-throw line
- McQueen started in all 32 games in 2023-24, averaging 30.4 minutes per game and 9.6 points per game
- She scored in double figures in 20 games, including a season-high 16 against Vanderbilt (Feb. 5)
- Karly Weathers is finishing her sophomore season with averaging 21.9 minutes per game and 4.7 points per game
- She recorded double-digit points in three games, including her first career double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds against Arkansas (Feb. 1)
About Florida State
- Florida State finished the regular season with 12 Atlantic Coast Conference victories and made a run in the ACC Tournament before losing to NC State in the semifinals, 69-43
- The Seminoles have four student-athletes averaging double figures, including TaiNiya Latson (21.3 ppg), Makayla Timpson (14.1 ppg), O'Mariah Gordon (13.4 ppg) and Sara Bejedi (12.2 ppg)
- Timpson leads the team with 330 rebounds and 84 blocks, averaging 10 rebounds per game and 2.5 blocks per game
Practice at Moody Center ??#RollTide #GLG pic.twitter.com/3qR49lR14v
— Alabama Women's Basketball (@AlabamaWBB) March 21, 2024
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