As you can see: No. 7 Alabama Basketball against No. 5 Florida

Tuscaloosa, Ala – number 80 would look much better than 79 for Mark Sears 'Finale' victory in Coleman Coliseum. The graduate -Point Guard would also prefer to see a No. 1 seed next to Alabama's name than the current No. 2 seed production of the flood.

Sears can cross one of these goals on Wednesday evening and help his team to take a big step towards the other, since Alabama No. 7 (23-6, 12-4) houses No. 5 Florida (25-4, 12-4) for his senior night.

Sears will be one of five seniors who were honored with the starter colleagues Grant Nelson, Clifford Omoruyi and Chris Youngblood and the walk-on Max Scharnowski on Wednesday evening. The injured waking up Houston Mallet and Latrell Wrightsell Jr. will not take part in the ceremony because they pursue medical redshirts to return with the flood for another season.

The Matchup on Wednesday will mark Alabama's second top 5 opponent, as the flood at that time no no was suffering from a Summer-Theater defeat. 5 Tennessee over the weekend. Alabama will complete his regular season with a trip to the first -class Auburn this weekend.

A victory on Wednesday would secure Alabama at the SEC tournament in the next week and earn the double-bye before starting the game for a week from Friday. Alabama and Florida also competes for a seed number 1 in the NCAA tournament.

You need to know the following before the top 10 matchup.

Who: No. 7 Alabama (23-6, 12-4 seconds) against No. 5 Florida (25-4, 12-4)

When: 6 p.m. CT, Wednesday, March 5th

Where: Coleman Coliseum

Regard: ESPN2 (Play-by-Play: Dave Pasch, Analyst: Jay Bilas, Analyst: Molly McGrath)

Hear: Crimson Tide Sports Network | Sirius/XM 134/201 (Play-by-Play: Chris Stewart, Analyst: Bryan Passink)

Mark Sears: 6-foot-1, 190 pounds, graduate

Statistics: 19.1 ppg, 3.0 RPG, 5.0 APG, 41.2% FG, 36.1% 3-PT

Chris Youngblood: 6-foot-4, 177 pounds, newcomer

Statistics: 10.2 ppg, 2.6 RPG, 1.0 APG, 44.0% FG, 38.2% 3-PT

Labaron Philon: 6-foot-4, 177 pounds, newcomer

Statistics: 10.4 ppg, 3.2 RPG, 3.5 APG, 45.9% FG, 29.5% 3-PT

Grant Nelson: 6-foot-11, £ 230, graduate

Statistics: 11.8 ppg, 8.0 RPG, 1.7 APG, 53.0% FG, 25.0% 3-PT

Clifford Omoruyi: 6-foot-11, 250 pounds, graduate

Statistics: 7.1 ppg, 6.8 RPG, 0.8 APG, 72.3% FG

Walter Clayton Jr.: 6-foot 3, 195 pound, senior

statistics: 16.9 ppg, 3.7 RPG, 4.0 APG, 43.9% FG, 36.3% 3-PT

Alijah Martin: 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, graduate

Statistics: 14.7 ppg, 4.7 RPG, 2.4 APG, 44.2% FG, 36.0% 3-PT

Will Richard: 6-foot-4, 206 pounds, senior

Statistics: 13.6 ppg, 4.8 RPG, 1.8 APG, 50.9% FG, 37.7% 3-PT

Thomas Hagh: 6-foot-9, 210 pounds, in the second year

Statistics: 9.1 ppg, 6.1 RPG, 1.9 APG, 48.2% FG, 34.3% 3-PT

Rueben Chinyelu: 6-foot-10, 255 pounds, in the second year

Statistics: 5.9 ppg, 6.3 RPG, 0.8 APG, 58.7% FG

Nate Oats took over a lead in Alabama in Alabama in the last minute of his 79:76 defeat in Tennessee over the weekend, which corresponds to a 4-point lead in the 79: 76 defeat. The head coach made a few delayed substitution errors and did not exceed time to prevent an initial violation against Labaron Philon Alabama with five seconds, with the game still 3.8 seconds on the clock. These mistakes made it possible to hit Tennessee Guard Jahmai Mashack to hit a game-winning Summer Theater from around half space.

The loss ended Alabama's hopes for a second title in the regular season and put a small bump in the NCAA tournament of the Tide CV. However, oats swore on Tuesday that it would be the last late game errors of his team this season.

“We will repair it,” said Oats about his team's mistakes against Tennessee. “As an opportunity, we will take a better team for the SEC tournament for the NCAA tournament. We will be the most prepared team for the future situations at the end of the game, and we will use it to take a better team for our run in March. “

Oats was not shy to call his players after mistakes this season. This weekend he captured the same standard and explained that he had “failed” his team with his decisions. While Hafer was not the only reason why Alabama suffered a breakdown at the last minute, his accountability in the changing room of the flood went a long way.

“When you hear your head coach, it is reassuring because he sticks to a high standard and he says that he lets us know that he is sticking to a high standard,” said Youngblood. “He practices what he preaches. It's always a good feeling. “

As painful as the loss against Tennessee for Alabama was, the flood can take out a few positive aspects from the defeat. Alabama looked like the better team for everyone to the last 30 seconds of the game and proved that his high -flying attack can hang with one of the toughest defenses in the nation.

Sears recorded his fourth game in a row with 20 or more points and shot 7 out of 16 from the ground, including 4 out of 9 from Deep. He also scored his third game in a row with three or less sales and only followed two against the volunteers.

Alabama competed on last year's NCAA tournament and lost four of his last six games before draining his first run on the last four. With the flood, which hopes for a more smooth end of the regular season this year, Oats said that his team focuses on the daily improvement to take his step into the tournament game.

“We have to play our best basketball in March, that's really the goal,” said Oats. “So we come to the point where we are currently playing the best basketball that we played all year round, and I think we are honestly close. If we had closed this Tennessee game, this would have been one of our best games on both sides of the ball. We were 30 seconds from closing.

“If these teamed up the coaching team for 30 seconds, the players are a much better situational basketball team of the game, at the end of half … and that spreads us to win some games at the NCAA tournament, it may have been the best thing that happened to us.”

– This will be the second meeting between Alabama and Florida, with both teams classified in the top 10 of the Associated Press survey. Alabama won the first meeting on February 23, 2002, 65-64, in the Coleman Coliseum.

-Alabama has nine victories over AP Top 25 opponents who violate their previous program record of seven years in the 2022-23 season.

-Alabama's three victories against AP Top 10 teams this year have been most of them since the 1982/83 campaign.

-Aden Holloway scored 10 points or more from the bank in a Sec-Leading 21 games this season.

– Alabama enters the game with 43.7 rebounds per game as the best reconciliation team in the country. Florida is located in the country with an average of 42.0 rebounds.

-Will Richard von Florida scored 25 points against Texas A&M last week and a career high of 30 points against Georgia. He has been the fourth gator in the last 30 years, who publish consecutive 25-point games in Sec Action and have connected Colin Castleton, Anthony Roberson and Jason Williams.