{"id":1151140,"date":"2025-03-28T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1151140"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:05:07","slug":"alabama-advances-to-elite-8-with-historic-record-breaking-shooting-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-advances-to-elite-8-with-historic-record-breaking-shooting-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Advances to Elite 8 with Historic, Record-Breaking Shooting Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama Crimson Tide men\u2019s basketball program is headed back to the Elite Eight after a historic 113-88 victory over the BYU Cougars in which numerous program and NCAA Tournament records were set.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama\u2019s 25 made threes broke the program record of 23 \u2013 which it set against LSU back in 2021. It was not just a record for the program however, it was a record in the NCAA Tournament which had stood for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1990, Loyola-Marymount made 21 threes against Michigan in the second round in a victory where they scored a ridiculous 149 points as a team.<\/p>\n<p>Even with just 113 points however, the Tide shattered the record of deep balls, scoring 75 points from deep alone.<\/p>\n<p>Following several cold shooting games down the stretch of the season, it was Mark Sears playing one of the best games of his career and tying an Alabama program record with 10 made three-pointers himself, something John Petty did twice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MARK SEARS HITS HIS 10TH TRIPLE \ud83d\ude31<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchMadness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchMadness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlabamaMBB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pK7Pt3DHWJ\">pic.twitter.com\/pK7Pt3DHWJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1905428685043233255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sears\u2019 10 threes fell just shy of the NCAA Tournament record of 11 set by Jeff Fryer for Loyola-Marymount in that same game game against Michigan back in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>With eight assists to go along with his 34 points, Sears factored in for 56 \u2013 nearly half \u2013 of the Tide\u2019s points on the night as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Sears was not the only Tide star to have a big night either with Aden Holloway coming off the bench to hit six threes and score 23 points and Chris Youngblood scoring 19 himself on five from deep as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alabama CANNOT MISS \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchMadness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchMadness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlabamaMBB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2UXpqiPtC7\">pic.twitter.com\/2UXpqiPtC7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1905425270313488760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 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\">BAMA CANNOT STOP MAKING THREES! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUzJhbpGhI\">pic.twitter.com\/aUzJhbpGhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports (@CBSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSports\/status\/1905426441887494595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For head coach Nate Oats, it was a historic night as well as with the breaking of Wimp Sanderson\u2019s record for most NCAA Tournament wins for a coach in program history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the first time in history Alabama has played in back-to-back Elite Eights and will be just the third time the program ever has after playing in the Final Four last season.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge facing the Tide in order to return to the biggest stage in the sport however is now immense in a Saturday night date with the Duke Blue Devils, who entered the tournament as one of the favorites to win it all and have looked absolutely dominant thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Generational Duke superstar Cooper Flagg had another 30-point effort in the Blue Devils\u2019 win over Arizona last night to earn the right to face Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Things tip off at 7:49 p.m. CST on Saturday night on TBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Alabama Crimson Tide men\u2019s basketball program is headed back to the Elite Eight after a historic 113-88 victory over the BYU Cougars in which <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-advances-to-elite-8-with-historic-record-breaking-shooting-performance\/\" title=\"Alabama Advances to Elite 8 with Historic, Record-Breaking Shooting Performance\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1051259,"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-1151140","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\/03\/dhh24010654van_vs_ala.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151140","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=1151140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151141,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151140\/revisions\/1151141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}