Alabama basketball fans who missed Saturday’s game, and later saw the final score of 88-74, may think the Tide got a comfortable win. They will be wrong. There was nothing comfortable about it until the last two minutes. It was, in fact, a hard-fought win that defied basketball odds.
Missouri took an early lead and held it for almost four minutes. Midway through the first half, the Crimson Tide starting raining threes. In a five-minute stretch, Alex Reese and Beetle Bolden hit treys, followed by John Petty Jr. adding three more long-range bombs. At 8:47 in the first half, the Alabama basketball lead was 10 points.