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The Alabama Crimson Tide gave UConn all the things they’d, however nonetheless got here up quick of their Last 4 sport on Saturday evening, 86-72.
It was the most effective seasons general for Alabama, ending with this system’s first look within the Last 4. The crew reached the Candy 16 final season and didn’t advance out of the primary spherical in 2022.
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Nate Oats of the Alabama Crimson Tide speaks throughout a press convention on the semifinals of the NCAA Males’s Basketball Event Last 4 at State Farm Stadium on April 6, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Alysa Rubin/NCAA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs)
Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats lamented one side of their loss to the defending champions: They could not make as many three-point pictures as they’d have preferred. Alabama shot 23 three-pointers however made solely 11 of their makes an attempt. They made 26 three-pointers in a win over North Carolina earlier within the match.
“We knew they had been going to attempt to run us away, bodily,” Oats stated of the Huskies, by way of ESPN. “Sure, 23 is just not splendid. We might slightly push at 3s, round mid-thirties. However they had been clearly going to attempt to get us off the road.
“Once they took us off the road, we drove it in. They did a greater job of forcing us to take extra non-edge 2s than we in all probability have all yr… Practically a 3rd of our pictures ended up not being -edge-2’s. 2s. That is not how we usually play.”
Nate Oats of the Alabama Crimson Tide talks to his crew in the course of the first NCAA Males’s Basketball Event Last 4 sport in opposition to the Connecticut Huskies at State Farm Stadium on April 6, 2024 in Glendale. (Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs)
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Alabama trailed by solely 4 factors at halftime, however was unable to get again into the sport as they noticed their deficit enhance towards the top of the sport.
Mark Sears led the crew with 24 factors.
UConn shot a ridiculous 50% from the sector. Each participant in his beginning lineup was in double figures in scoring.
Connecticut head coach Dan Hurley and Alabama head coach Nate Oats meet after the Huskies defeated the Crimson Tide 86-72 of their Last 4 sport on April 6, 2024. (Christian Petersen/Getty Photographs)
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UConn will now play Purdue within the nationwide title sport on Monday.
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