TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 16/16 Alabama men’s basketball team will wrap up this week’s Southeastern Conference road trip Saturday at LSU. Tipoff is set for 11 a.m. CT at the Pete Maravich Center.

The matchup features three of the top-15 scorers during SEC play in Alabama’s Mark Sears (No. 3, 21.7 ppg) along with LSU’s Jordan Wright (No. 14, 16.1 ppg) and Jalen Cook (No. 15, 16.0 ppg). The Crimson Tide comes into the contest in a three-way tie for first place in the SEC with Auburn and South Carolina at 8-2.

The Crimson Tide will be looking for the season sweep of the Tigers, as Alabama posted a 109-88 home victory over LSU just two weeks ago (Jan. 27). 

The Broadcast

Saturday’s game is set for an 11 a.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on ESPN with Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play) and Carolyn Peck (analyst) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.

Notes You Need To Know

• Since Oats arrived at Alabama in 2019-20, the Crimson Tide has won a league-best 57 SEC contests
• Alabama has not lost back-to-back SEC games since March 5, 2022 (vs. Texas A&M and at LSU)
• Alabama has scored 100 points in eight SEC games during Oats’ tenure. The rest of the league has a combined 10 100-point games during that span.
• According to KenPom, Mark Sears ranks No. 8 in the National Player of the Year standings and ranks No. 3 in Barttorvik’s player rankings
• Sears is the only player in Division I that has 465 points, 95 rebounds, 90 assists and 50 three-pointers this season
• Sears has recorded 20-points or more in 14 games this season, matching Brandon Miller (2022-23) and Retin Obasohan (2015-16) and most since Collin Sexton in 2017-18 (16 games)
• last season and the most since Collin Sexton (16 games)
• Sears ranks No. 1 in the SEC in scoring (20.4 ppg), No. 4 in field goal percentage (52.3) and No. 8 in assists (3.9 apg)
• Sears (21.7 ppg) is one of four SEC players (Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht, 26.9 ppg, Texas A&M’s Wade Taylor IV, 22.7 ppg and Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves, 20.6 ppg) that is averaging over 20 points per game during conference play
• The Crimson Tide owns the No. 2 scoring offense in the country (89.5 ppg) and the No. 2-ranked offense, according to KenPom
• Alabama is one of three schools (Purdue and Wright State) in the country that has two players on its current roster that has scored at least 1,700 points throughout their career in Sears (1,822 points) and Estrada (1,768 points)

About LSU

• LSU’s four wins during SEC play surpasses last year’s win total (2)
• During SEC play, LSU is 3-1 at home, with one win over an AP Top-25 opponent (No. 22 Ole Miss)
• LSU has two players ranked in the top 15 in scoring during SEC play in Jordan Wright (No. 14, 16.1 ppg) and Jalen Cook (No. 15, 16.0 ppg)
• LSU has three players averaging double figures during conference play in Wright, Cook and Will Baker (11.0 ppg)
• During LSU’s last four contests, Wright is averaging 17.3 points per game
• Wright’s 1.9 steals per game ranks No. 4 in the SEC and No. 69 in Division I
• The Tigers will be playing its fifth-ranked team (1-4) in the AP Poll this season
• In its last six contests, LSU has made 60 three-pointers led by Mike Williams III’s 13 threes made and 41.9 percent three-point percentage

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