{"id":1183969,"date":"2026-02-19T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1183969"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:31:50","slug":"alabama-survives-double-ot-thriller-behind-huge-night-from-mobiles-labaron-philon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-survives-double-ot-thriller-behind-huge-night-from-mobiles-labaron-philon\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Survives Double OT Thriller Behind Huge Night from Mobile&#8217;s Labaron Philon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama Crimson Tide men&#8217;s basketball team won potentially the game of the year in college hoops on Wednesday night, taking down the Arkansas Razorbacks 117-115 in double overtime to pull even with them and Tennessee for second place in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>It was Labaron Philon Jr. playing hero for Alabama with one of the best games of his young career, dropping 35 points with seven assists to hold off the Razorbacks sensational freshman <span class=\"truncate db Boxscore__AthleteName Boxscore__AthleteName--long\">Darius Acuff Jr., who had a historic 49-point effort including a circus shot at the end of regulation to send it into the first overtime.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Freshman Darius Acuff with one of the best performances we&#8217;ve seen all season \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>49 PTS | 16-27 FG | 6-10 3PT | 5 REB | 5 AST | 50 MINS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/guNnS1XBPe\">pic.twitter.com\/guNnS1XBPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Hoops (@brhoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brhoops\/status\/2024315043308052669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/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=\"es\">28 for Labaron. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n4cRPsXBrM\">pic.twitter.com\/n4cRPsXBrM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/2024301874229166547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Tide trailed by 10 at the half before fighting back in the second to take a lead late prior to the Acuff tying bucket right at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HUEY DID IT AGAIN! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJ0PxScyI4\">pic.twitter.com\/uJ0PxScyI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alabama Men\u2019s Basketball (@AlabamaMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB\/status\/2024314314820108567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both in overtime and in double overtime, Houston Mallette &#8212; who had not been an offensive factor for the entire night &#8212; hit two clutch threes for his only six points on the night to push the game to the brink.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore big man Aiden Sherrell had perhaps his best game in two years for Alabama as well and has stepped into an even bigger role following the Charles Bediako ruling making the center ineligible and pushing Sherrell into the main size role. He had 26 points and 13 rebounds including five on the offensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Young freshman Amari Allen had a double-double of his own with 19 points and 11 rebounds as well.<\/p>\n<p>The victory pushes the Crimson Tide to 9-4 in SEC play and 19-7 overall, two games behind the 11-2 Florida Gators who once again look like the best team in the conference. Alabama will get set to hit the road once again this weekend with a road game against LSU before hitting the final stretch of the regular season starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>As the season comes to a head, Nate Oats seem to have his squad trending in the right direction, making for a potentially very exciting March ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Alabama Crimson Tide men&#8217;s basketball team won potentially the game of the year in college hoops on Wednesday night, taking down the Arkansas Razorbacks <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/alabama-survives-double-ot-thriller-behind-huge-night-from-mobiles-labaron-philon\/\" title=\"Alabama Survives Double OT Thriller Behind Huge Night from Mobile&#8217;s Labaron Philon\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1183970,"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-1183969","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\/2026\/02\/dhh260107039_van_vs_bama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183969","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=1183969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183971,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183969\/revisions\/1183971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}