Summer Shootaround '24: Alabama looks STACKED, but it needs to improve the defense to win a national title
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Alabama Crimson Tide came the closest to knocking off the UConn Huskies in the NCAA Tournament last season. With Mark Sears returning to lead the charge, can this team improve its defense to finish the job? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break down the Crimson Tide's chances in the latest Summer Shootaround episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Scary Parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball |
| 0:09.3 | Podcast where we sometimes discuss Camel fighting Dodo birds and Leaky Black. |
| 0:14.0 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:15.0 | If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. |
| 0:18.0 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. |
| 0:19.0 | If you haven't yet, subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball |
| 0:22.0 | YouTube channel. |
| 0:23.0 | Obviously, we'd appreciate it if you did that while you're here. |
| 0:26.0 | Either way, let's get into it. |
| 0:28.0 | Today we are continuing our Summer Shoot Around series that we're going to be doing over the next few weeks. |
| 0:32.0 | A little different setup than we've done in previous years. |
| 0:35.0 | This summer, we're going to go through the top 10 of my top 25 of one in the order that the schools are ranked. |
| 0:41.0 | We've already done number one, Kansas. |
| 0:42.0 | Hope you didn't miss that one. So now we're |
| 0:44.8 | going to turn our attention to number two Alabama. Crimson Time went 25 and 12 overall last season, |
| 0:51.7 | 13 and 5 in the SEC, |
| 0:53.8 | finished tied for second in the league standings, |
| 0:56.6 | lost the opening game in the SEC tournament to Florida. |
| 1:00.2 | They got a four seed in the NCAA tournament, |
| 1:02.4 | then beat Charleston, Grand Canyon, |
| 1:04.1 | North Carolina, and Clemson to make the final four of the NCAA tournament for the first time |
| 1:08.9 | in school history. Got Yukon in the national semi-finals. You know how that went. Alabama finished |
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