Auburn vs. Alabama: A Historic #1 vs. #2 SEC Showdown

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00:00Joe tomorrow, we make some history for the first ever time

00:05in SEC men's basketball. We have a matchup between the number

00:09one team in the AP poll, and the number two team in the AP poll.

00:14And it's a rivalry now amplified the iron basketball if you will

00:20between number one Auburn and number two Alabama tomorrow

00:24inside Coleman Coliseum a 4pm Eastern Time tip is when we

00:29expect to get things underway between one versus two, the

00:35line is already out. You don't often get lines for Saturday

00:39this early on a Friday morning, unless the game is a monumental

00:42matchup. And that's what we have the tide in ever so slight

00:47favorite at home, but it's basically a pick them with an

00:50outlandishly high total of 171 and a half. That's what you have

00:56when you have Alabama one of the best offenses in the country.

00:59And an Auburn team that of course can keep pace just to say

01:04what is at stake for this game, not just the first one versus

01:08two ever in the history of SEC men's basketball. Our first one

01:12versus two in men's hoops since November 2021 just our fifth one

01:17versus two game in the last decade in men's college

01:21basketball. And oh yeah, not only a rivalry between the

01:25Tigers in the tide, but a game Joe that could decide the top

01:29spot in the SEC with all of that history and all of that

01:35significance on the line tomorrow afternoon in Tuscaloosa

01:39Joe. Will the game match the hype?

01:43Yeah, well, you got to think of well, look at a total been like

01:46171 and a half. And I don't think people realize how

01:49unbelievably rare this is. They went to 64 teams been back in

01:551984 and 85 for the tournament. And since then, we've only had

02:0016 regular season matchups between number one and number

02:05two. The most recent was in 2021 when Gonzaga destroyed number

02:10two UCLA. But outside of that, we've only had eight matchups

02:15that have actually ever come from the same conference. I

02:17mean, this is rarefied college basketball that we're going to

02:21get where number one and number two are facing each other from

02:25the same conference at this point in the season here. And by

02:28the way, usually, those two teams or at least history tells

02:32us they make a deep run in March here. None of them have ever

02:36wanted to have those 16 games. No team has ever actually won

02:40at all. But boy, oh boy, they have. They have made a run. And

02:43you look at these two teams, man, number one and number two

02:46and offensive efficiency. It's why that total is the way it is.

02:49And don't forget to start the season, Alabama couldn't hit a

02:53three if their life dependent on it. Not so much anymore here,

02:57man. Now they're hitting almost 40% of their threes. They're now

03:0240th in the country in three point efficiency. I don't expect

03:06a lot of defense. I expect a lot of points in this game.

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