NCAA Basketball: 10 takeaways from Week 3

Some crazy things happened over Week 3 of the 2017-18 college basketball season. Here are 10 takeaways.

The week of Thanksgiving gave us some exciting college basketball moments and games. Top teams won, top teams lost, and Alabama almost beat Minnesota with just three players on the court.

Here are 10 takeaways from Week 3 of the 2017-18 college basketball season:

Collin Sexton is the new top SEC Freshman  

The Alabama Crimson Tide game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers will go down in history as one of the strangest occurrences in college basketball of all time.

After the entire Crimson Tide bench was ejected for leaving the bench, fouls (and injuries) led to Alabama playing with only three players on the court, one of whom was freshman Collin Sexton.

Assuming the game was over at that point, I stopped following, until I heard that Alabama was mounting an impossible comeback behind the play of Sexton.

The Crimson Tide would fall just short, but a masterful, 38-point performance by Sexton was enough to keep a game against a ranked opponent close and cement him as one of the best scorers in all of college basketball.

Michael Porter Jr. is out for the season (RIP Missouri Tigers), meaning that the title of SEC Freshman of the Year is up for grabs. Kentucky has struggled a bit to open the season and their plethora of freshmen hinder efforts at Freshman of the Year honors.

Either way, Sexton is fun to watch, and this Alabama team is going to be a problem when they are allowed to have more than three players on the court.