Alabama currently leads the SEC with a 12-1 record. Texas A&M sits in second place at 11-2. If both teams win their next four games and the Aggies beat the Tide in the finale, then both would finish 16-2 and Texas A&M would own the tiebreaker.
Even after top-ranked Alabama lost Wednesday night to Tennessee, the Tide still controls its own destiny to win an SEC regular-season title and earn the No. 1 seed in the SEC tournament next month.
If Texas A&M wins its remaining five games, including its March 4 finale against Alabama in College Station, then the Aggies would win the SEC and head to Nashville as the No. 1 seed. Alabama hosts Georgia at 5 p.m. CT Saturday in Coleman Coliseum as it tries to recover from its loss to Tennessee while also holding onto first place in the SEC.
A regular-season title is largely a point of pride, as the top four seeds in the conference receive double byes in the SEC tournament and a tournament title ultimately determines automatic bids to the NCAA tournament. But for an Alabama team that won its first 11 SEC games this season by an average of 21 points, letting the conference slip away to Texas A&M would be a psychological setback.
“We just talk about getting better, like, where do we need to improve from the Tennessee game? How can we get better?” Oats asked Friday. “I think we’ve answered every loss so far this year pretty well. Let’s not turn Wednesday’s loss into a loss Saturday. Let’s bounce back. I thought the guys had pretty good attitudes the last two days [of practice].
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