Alabama head coach Kristy Curry talked in regards to the problem of beating a staff 3 times, and it proved too troublesome for her staff to do Thursday evening within the Crimson Tide's opening recreation of the SEC Match towards Florida.
After shedding to Alabama twice within the common season, the 11-seed Gators led nearly your entire recreation and pulled off the primary upset of the match thus far with the 63-61 win over 6-seed Alabama.
"I believe on an evening like tonight, as an alternative of coming in and speaking about all of the issues that we didn't do, you simply need to credit score your opponent," Curry stated after the sport. "Thought Florida performed nice, performed with quite a lot of vitality, was extra aggressive, and assault mentality than we had been."
Florida led by eight factors with 49 seconds left, and but Alabama had an opportunity to win with the ball on the ultimate possession. Some missed free throws by Florida and clutch 3s by Zaay Inexperienced and Sarah Ashlee Barker reduce the Gator result in 62-61 with 16 seconds left.
Alabama instantly fouled on protection, and Florida solely made certainly one of two free throws on the line. Diana Collins had a large open look from 3 for the win for the Crimson Tide with about 5 seconds left, however couldn't get the shot to fall. Alabama received the offensive rebounds, however Barker's shot on the buzzer was blocked by the Gators.
It was certainly one of Alabama's worst offensive performances of the season. The Crimson Tide is without doubt one of the greatest 3-point taking pictures groups within the nation, however struggled from past the arc all evening and completed taking pictures 28 p.c.
The offense had scoring droughts in each quarter. Within the first quarter it took Alabama nearly 4 minutes to attain a area objective, and it was even worse within the second. The Tide didn't rating its first area objective within the second quarter till there was 2:43 left within the half.
Alabama (23-8) had no solutions for Florida's (16-16) Liv McGill, who completed with 29 factors. Barker led Alabama with 24 factors and was visibly emotional after the loss.
"They only outplayed us tonight, out hustled us on the boards," Barker stated. "In each class they out-did us. That's the place we have now to return to watching movie and hoping we will clear up a few of these issues and transfer on and go to the NCAA match."
This marks the third straight season Alabama has gone one-and-done within the SEC Match.
No. 19 Alabama will now await its NCAA Match destiny. The Crimson Tide is unquestionably within the area however hoping to be a top-four seed with the intention to host the opening weekend of video games.
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Katie Windham is the assistant editor for BamaCentral, primarily overlaying soccer, basketball gymnastics and softball. She is a two-time graduate of the College of Alabama and has lined a wide range of Crimson Tide athletics since 2019 for shops like The Tuscaloosa Information, The Crimson White and the Related Press earlier than becoming a member of BamaCentral full time in 2021. Windham has lined School Soccer Playoff video games, the Ladies's School World Collection, NCAA March Insanity, SEC Tournaments and championships in a number of sports activities.
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