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Eye On College Basketball

Summer Shootaround Series: Alabama has its best-rated recruiting class ever, and the Tide are again Top 25-good (College Basketball 07/20)

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the 2022 Summer Shootaround series, where the Eye On College Basketball podcast will highlight the 20 most noteworthy storylines heading into the 2022-2023 College Basketball season. We'll start this series with the Alabama Crimson Tide, a team that brings in the third highest recruiting class. But lacks the veteran experience that a team likely needs to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break down the Crimson Tide's chances.


(03:00) - Alabama can recruit well

(08:00) - Can Bama overcome the loss of Javon Quinnerly?


 

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's scary, parents. Welcome back to the CBS Sports. I own college basketball

0:05.2

podcast where we sometimes discuss Kamel fighting, Dodo birds and Leaky Black, Matt Norlander is

0:10.7

here with me. If you're watching live on YouTube, please smash the like button like your

0:13.8

brand and Davies. You have consent while you're smashed. And let me tell you, what we're

0:17.7

gonna have going on for the next 10 weeks. It's called the Summer Shooter rounds, a series

0:23.7

during which we're gonna focus on 20 notable teams over Spana 10 weeks, two per week,

0:28.7

20 teams and 10 weeks. And we're gonna do the schools in alphabetical order, which means

0:33.1

we're starting today with Alabama. Crimson tide coming off a season where they went 19

0:39.1

and 14 got a 6C in the NCAA tournament, lost a Notre Dame in the round the 64. Actually

0:44.6

finished the season on a four game losing streak, but still finished ranked 28th at Kenpom.

0:49.5

If you remember, Alabama was one of the weirdest teams in the country last season.

0:54.9

Pete Gonzaga, Houston, Baylor, Tennessee, but lost to Iona, Missouri, Georgia and Vanderbilt.

1:00.9

Put another way. The Crimson tide beat four top 10 Kenpom teams and lost to four sub 60

1:07.5

Kenpom teams. They beat the team that finished first at Kenpom and they lost to the team that

1:11.2

finished 219th at Kenpom, just all over the place. Basically all season from that team,

1:17.9

they lost Jane Chack for Keon Ellis, JD Davis and Johan Gary. So four of the top seven scores,

1:24.3

but they're bringing back Johan Quinterly, Charles Badiaco, Noah Gurley, Darius Smiles.

1:29.8

That's four of the top eight scores, although it should be noted that Quinterly suffered

1:34.2

a tornado in the NCAA tournament. Odds are he's not going to be available to start the

1:38.8

season. Deadleg, I've got Alabama 21st in the top 25 and one. Where are you at on the

1:45.1

Crimson tide? Well, you covered a few things there that I was going to mention, but yeah,

1:49.6

Notre Dame loss. That was one where if you weren't like dialed into that game, unless you

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