From an early age, I learned a rule of thumb when it came to college basketball. If that school was a strong football school, then I could assume their basketball team was generally subpar. And if they were a name I didn’t recognize (or Kentucky), then their hoops team was probably terrifying.
There’s always exceptions, like Ohio State and Florida in those years they won NCAA Championships in both sports in the same year, but, for the most part. It holds. Football and men’s basketball are inverses of each other at any given school.
Well I don’t know who makes those rules, but somehow or another, Alabama really got on their bad side.