Top 10 College Basketball Clash: #5 Florida vs. #7 Alabama

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00:00Let's get to college basketball, a couple of monumental games on this Wednesday.

00:04SEC regular season crowd already decided, but two SEC teams, DRS, still trying to hunt down the one line

00:12in a top ten tilt tonight in Tuscaloosa. It's number seven Alabama, it's number five Florida.

00:18The Crimson Tide, a two and a half point home favorite tonight inside Coleman Coliseum against

00:23the Gators. Now make it three and a half, the updated number on the FanDuel Sportsbook,

00:28and of course a very lofty total any time the Tide are playing in a basketball game,

00:33178 and a half. What gives tonight in this top ten tilt in Tuscaloosa? That's crazy,

00:40a buck 80 on the board at this point, rightfully so. Both teams play with a little bit of tempo

00:44here. Florida, a very good offense, and the best offense due to efficiency in SEC play is the

00:49Alabama Crimson Tide. Understand this to me, sometimes it comes down to, again, styles just

00:53make fights here. Both of these teams are very good at making the three-point shot. You take a

00:56look at the Florida offense, which is very good, as I've said. 44 percent of their shots come from

01:01three-point range on offense. That's number two in the conference at firing away from three,

01:05and they make 36 percent, which is great. Look at Alabama's defense. They don't turn you over all

01:10that much, but they play very good defense at the three-point line, holding opponents to 31 percent

01:15from three-point range in conference play. That's third out of 16 teams. Then if you look at

01:19defending the three-point line as not saying, okay, how do we defend the shots? It's not letting you

01:24get shots there. They're number one in conference play, so if you say Florida loves to shoot the

01:28three and Alabama is the best team to chasing you off of the three-point line, that's a win for

01:32Alabama. Flip it over to Alabama's offense here. At home, you typically play better at home than you

01:37do on the road. Number one is we talked about inefficiency on offense, and also number three,

01:41at making the three-point shot at 38 percent. They're third in the conference, just behind

01:45Florida at shooting the three-point shot at 44 percent of their total offensive shots. You take

01:50a look at Florida's defense. Seventh in conference play, chasing you off the line. So, Florida likes

01:54to shoot the three. Alabama will defend it and chase you off the line. Alabama likes to shoot

01:59the three, but Florida not going to chase you off the line as much at this point. Advantage for me,

02:03Alabama in a great bounce back spot tonight. I agree with that line movement. Earlier today,

02:07it was two and a half. Now, it's up to three and a half. If they're going to win this basketball

02:10game, they're going to cover this game. Also, Ben, real quick, close games at the end. Who's

02:14the worst free throw shooting team at SEC play? That's your Florida Gators. That could hurt you

02:18in a close game.