College basketball rankings: Alabama headlines closing High 25 And 1 earlier than 2023 NCAA Tournament
The Crimson Tide enter the March Madness festivities because the No. 1 overall seed within the bracket
Alabama is No. 1 in Monday morning’s closing update of the CBS Sports High 25 And 1 day-to-day school basketball rankings for this season. Nate Oats’ program vaulted to the stop achieve after defeating Texas A&M in Sunday’s championship game of the SEC Tournament while Houston misplaced to Memphis in Sunday’s championship game of the American Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Crimson Tide are also the No. 1 overall seed within the 2023 NCAA Tournament. So, for better or worse, Brandon Miller is now the face of faculty basketball’s postseason as Alabama tries to seize its first national championship below undeniably awkward conditions.
Why awkward?
Because Miller, Alabama’s simplest participant and a projected high-five preserve within the 2023 NBA Draft, allegedly drove a gun to a scene the achieve it changed into, very rapidly after his arrival, aged to abolish a 23-year-used mother no longer up to 2 months ago. Regardless, Miller has never been publicly disciplined by this map or school, the achieve utilizing spherical Tuscaloosa after 1 a.m. with a loaded gun in your automobile and turning in it to a teammate who correct texted you that he wanted it because he changed into in some form of altercation is it sounds as if no violation of any physique of workers policy or rule. That is what Alabama officials bear talked about, on the least.
So the Crimson Tide’s season has marched on and not utilizing a well-known interruption, even supposing a dude who done 13 minutes in opposition to Memphis in December (Darius Miles) is now facing a capital assassinate fee, and even supposing his most excessive-profile teammate (Miller) is actually the final phrase motive the gun that killed the mother of a 5-year-used boy changed into there that night to be aged to abolish the mother of a 5-year-used boy.
It in actuality is impossible.
That talked about, there would possibly perhaps be now not any getting spherical the reality that in spite of those rather elephantine distractions and considerations, Alabama’s basketball physique of workers is … awesome. The Crimson Tide were the outright SEC champions and SEC Tournament champions. They ought to be No. 1 within the High 25 And 1 and the No. 1 overall seed within the NCAA Tournament. Now, it would possibly perhaps well maybe perhaps well be arresting to mosey making an strive to get them strive to discontinuance within the bracket accordingly while every press conference is crammed with journalists asking questions about the taking pictures loss of life of a younger lady discontinuance to campus in January
