Alabama Basketball: Takeaways from Tide’s upset win over unbeaten Auburn

Alabama Basketball handed the Auburn Tigers their first loss since April on Wednesday night, so what does this tell us about the Crimson Tide?

Alabama basketball has been a very underrated team throughout the 2019-20 season. With a record that now sits at 9-7, the Crimson Tide don’t exactly look like a great team on paper, but that is not the case.

Alabama is much better than a 9-7 basketball team and the NET Rankings believe so as well. The Crimson Tide are ranked 44th in the NET Rankings and are also the highest-ranked nine-win team in the nation.

Of Alabama’s seven losses, five of them have come by single-digits, including their double-overtime loss in Gainesville against Florida, one point loss against Penn and two-point loss against Penn State.

This goes to show you that Alabama has played in several very close games and had one play in some games and a couple in other games, gone their way, we might be talking about an Alabama team ranked in the top-10, but instead, we are talking about an unranked Bama squad.

However, beating one of two undefeated teams in the nation could signify that Alabama is a force to be reckoned with and it could be a complete turnaround for the Tide as well.

Over the last couple of games, especially Wednesday night’s game against Auburn, Alabama has played a lot of great basketball and now Alabama is in a good position to make a run for March.

So without further ado, here is what Alabama’s 83-64 win over Auburn on Wednesday, means: