MBB: Tide holds off Baylor, 79-76
by Mac T on Nov 26, 2009 9:23 PM CST
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PrintAlabama Defeats Baylor, 79-76, In Old Spice Classic Opener
Box score and play-by-play
After a back-and-forth first half, the Tide pulled away in the second, then had to hold on through some iffy foul shooting to preserve a win against the Bears. JaMychal Green had 22 points and six rebounds, Mikhail Torrence had 20 and six assists, and Senario Hillman had 15.
Baylor pulled out to an eight point lead six minutes into the game, and held the lead to about halfway through the first half, but Alabama pulled even. Tied with a minute to go in the first half, the Tide scored the last six points to take the lead for good.
They couldn't quite shake Baylor, but held a lead of six to ten points most of the rest of the way. Things broke down when Baylor got desperate and started to foul, as Bama missed five of twelve free throws in the last minute and nine seconds of the game; the steady Torrance was 4-4 but the rest of the team, not so steady. Baylor got within three, but one of two by Hillman and two by Torrance got the lead back to six to basically put the game away -- Baylor wound up hitting a meaningless three at the end to make the score more respectable.
Tony Mitchell left the game with 7:10 to go when he was clobbered by a Baylor big man on an obvious over-the-back rebounding foul that wasn't called. He was bleeding from his nose, which I have to assume was broken. (UPDATE: It was a gash over his eye, turns out. That's obviously much better news.)
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Roll Tide
Man I love seeing go to a neutral court and beat a quality opponent. If we continue to improve we could win some games this year. I’m just going to enjoy the ride. Bama basketball is fun to watch again.
Looking forward to a great matchup with (likely) FSU. Only thing of course is that we’ll have to miss the first half or so due to the overlap with the Iron Bowl. Oh well, as long as we keep winning I won’t complain.
Roll Tide
There was another over the back that wasn't called
Closer to the end of the game (last 3 minutes or so)
It was a dunk for Baylor on a 2nd attempt
Fumbles. It was always Fumbles
Yeah, but
When a guy gets clocked and is bleeding copiously from his nose and then collapses on the court, I think that even the dumbest official — say, Marc Curles — could see that’s a foul.
Wasn't bleeding....
…from the nose.
He got cracked on the forehead.
Gotta agree with you though on the BS of the no-call.
Watched most of this game...
…but then showed how bad of a basketball fan I am as I switched over the Texas vs. Texas A&M football game.
dude
Texas has no D and can’t protect their QB, did you see those missed tackles on the aTm runningback in the second half? imagine if that had been Ingram/Tebow
also, who is this team and what has Anthony Grant done to them?
gutsy drives to the basket from multiple players, successful full court pressure, gutting out opponent runs only to respond with our own runs, I’m feeling good about this team!
only downer, is that we need to be more consistent with the free throws
Terrence Cody eats your field goal!
by Wallacewade04 on Nov 27, 2009 12:21 AM CST up reply actions
Tony Grant Qoute
The announcers said he told them, “We’re undersized and underskilled. So we have to play overheartedly.”
And that they did, Sir. I haven’t seen a Tide team work that hard out on the wood in a long time. They seem to just have that will to win. Great game.
Rex E Mathis
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