This was a legitimately good win.
Alabama had a big lead and everything to play for, and we thoroughly outplayed them over the last 12 minutes. It was one of our best stretches of basketball all year.
This looked like the win at Mizzou, redux. That’s not necessarily a great thing, because it means we put ourselves in a hole with some horrendous early offensive play.
I can already hear the questions. “How bad could it be?” “Don’t we do this all the time?” “Shouldn’t we be numb to long stretches of offensive ineptitude?”
Friends, we had 11 points on the board with seven minutes remaining in the first half.