Good was mixed with bad as Alabama basketball stumbled, struggled and fought to a two-point SEC road loss in College Station. Some Alabama basketball fans will blame the loss on officiating. A TAMU player was ejected but the Tide and the Aggies each shot a pair of free throws due to dual technicals. The game’s outcome might have hinged on the referee decisions. But when a road team shoots 31 free throws, that road team cannot use officiating as an excuse for a loss.
Alabama basketball lost to TAMU because it did not value possessions well enough and at the end ran out of them.