Alabama's Offense Excels in Victory Over Vanderbilt

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00:00Mike, great to have you back here on Newswire.

00:01Really appreciate you coming on.

00:02Let's start off with Roll Tide.

00:04Another 100 points for them.

00:05This should not be a surprise.

00:07They wipe out Vandy, 103 to 87.

00:10Another nice game for Mark Sears,

00:12one of the best college basketball players in the country.

00:1421 points, 7 assists, hit most of his free throws as well.

00:19Alabama's, you know, certainly one of those teams

00:21that in the end, with the amount of points they score

00:24and when their offense is humming,

00:25they're going to be tough to beat over the next few months.

00:28Well, they were my preseason pick

00:30to win the championship, Craig.

00:32But the one thing that has to happen

00:35for them to fulfill that,

00:37and certainly they have the offensive talent to do that,

00:40is you have to be better on defense than they've been.

00:43And I'm not talking about giving up 87 points to Vandy.

00:46If you're scoring 110,

00:48the other team's going to probably score a lot.

00:50It's not really so much about that,

00:51it's how efficient you are,

00:53how effective you can be at getting big stops.

00:57I think they did a really nice job of that

00:59in the Kentucky game over the weekend.

01:02Again, you win 102 to 97.

01:06That's a huge victory over a great offensive team,

01:09but you have to have a more efficient defense

01:12than they've shown.

01:13Very few teams have gone into the NCAA tournament

01:16at the level where Alabama is

01:19on Ken Palm's defensive efficiency chart.

01:21Last time I looked, they were around 47.

01:24If you're not top 20,

01:26at least by the time you get halfway through the tournament,

01:29you're probably not going to win those last couple of games.

01:32So they've made a lot of progress with their offense.

01:34They're a great basketball team,

01:36but the defense has to be tighter as they go through.

01:40And it's not easy to do that in this league.

01:42The SEC is an amazing conference.

01:44Not going to be easy,

01:45but it also gives you the opportunity

01:47to challenge yourself constantly

01:49against teams that are elite offensively.

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