{"id":1144435,"date":"2025-02-26T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1144435"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:18:55","slug":"tide-destroy-bulldogs-keep-pace-in-sec-ahead-of-brutal-end-of-season-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/tide-destroy-bulldogs-keep-pace-in-sec-ahead-of-brutal-end-of-season-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Tide Destroy Bulldogs, Keep Pace in SEC Ahead of Brutal End of Season Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 6 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide had one of its best performances of the season on Tuesday night with a dominating victory over the No. 24 Mississippi State Bulldogs in Coleman Coliseum to keep pace in the SEC standings and climb to a game and a half behind the Auburn Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>With a 53-point first half and an even bigger second half, Alabama claimed a 38-point 111-73 win behind huge nights from Chris Youngblood and Mark Sears. The former set a Crimson Tide career high with 27, while the latter added 21 points of his own with 10 assists as well.<\/p>\n<p>Using a 21-4 run in the first half to build a big halftime lead, it was never much of a game in Coleman Coliseum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unlimited Range.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RollTide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RollTide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueCollarBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueCollarBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WmQlZhmCYs\">pic.twitter.com\/WmQlZhmCYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/1894576571828027473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Content Nelson \ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RollTide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RollTide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueCollarBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueCollarBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HGuoHcCoHy\">pic.twitter.com\/HGuoHcCoHy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/1894578652882288749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh My CY \ud83d\udc4c\ud83c\udffc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RollTide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RollTide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueCollarBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueCollarBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E3L3o4vDWg\">pic.twitter.com\/E3L3o4vDWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/1894579578506522795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The three-point shooting was immaculate for Alabama with the 22 long balls in the night coming just shy of the program record in a game overall. It was however the most threes in program history against a team ranked in the AP Poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\ud83d\udcaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OtjucRFQko\">pic.twitter.com\/OtjucRFQko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/1894601449251680396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">fancy move #4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8fNgVylZ67\">pic.twitter.com\/8fNgVylZ67<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/1894596604612501870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, things are not easy for the Tide. In order to have any chance at even a share of an SEC regular season title, Alabama likely has to defeat both Tennessee on the road as well as Florida at home, both top-five teams ahead of the regular season finale against Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers would also have to lose at least one of their remaining games at home against Ole Miss or on the road against Kentucky and Texas A&amp;M for the Tide to have a shot at the title in Neville Arena to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Alabama seems to have hit a stride over the previous two games and they will need to continue to be at their best in order to have any chance at both a conference title as well as a deep run in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The No. 6 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide had one of its best performances of the season on Tuesday night with a dominating victory over the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/tide-destroy-bulldogs-keep-pace-in-sec-ahead-of-brutal-end-of-season-schedule\/\" title=\"Tide Destroy Bulldogs, Keep Pace in SEC Ahead of Brutal End of Season Schedule\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1073995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,8,91,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1144435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-al-basketball","8":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","9":"category-alabama","10":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dhh240301514sect_fla_vs_ala.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144436,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144435\/revisions\/1144436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}