The Rebel hoopsters wrecked Alabama on The Pavilion's opening weekend. Can they repeat January's showing in Nashville?
Two first team all-SEC players face off Thursday as Stefan Moody and Retin Obasohan lead their clubs into Nashville for the conference tournament's second round. Moody, the season's scoring title winner, and Obasohan, the scholar athlete, have closed out their senior years on absolute tears.
Alabama, 17-13 (8-10 SEC), was for a time gaining talk as one of the year's great bubble bursters. With consecutive February wins over regular season champs Texas A&M, then Florida and LSU, some bracketologists were projecting Roll Tide into the field of 68.