Everything Nate Oats, Mark Sears and Grant Nelson Said After Alabama Lost to UConn in the Final Four
The Crimson Tide came up short against the tournament’s top seeded team on Saturday night
The Alabama Crimson Tide came up short on Saturday night, falling to the UConn Huskies 86-72 in the Final Four. Alabama head coach Nate Oats along with standout players Mark Sears and Grant Nelson met with the media after the loss and discussed the game and the post season run that just transpired.
NATE OATS: First, just want to thank our guys for getting this school to a Final Four for the first time in school history. We had an unbelievable run. Guys kind of got us over the hump to get there. So can’t say enough about the leadership of these guys, particularly in the last few weeks.
Unfortunate that it ended tonight, but we played arguably the best team in the country. I mean, UConn is top five in offense and defense. It showed tonight. I thought our guys did a good job staying in there, not giving up big runs. After we tied it there in the second half, I think they went on an 8-0 run after that, I if remember that, it was pretty quick.
They’re good. Like Danny says, they’re close to being bulletproof. When you’re that great on both sides of the ball, you out-rebound teams, the official box score had us down for zero fast break points. The first time all year that that’s happened to us. We’re used to getting out in transition. This game ended up being 64 possessions, which is a lot slower than we like. We kind of know they play a lot slower.
They got out in transition on us a little bit. They hit a three in transition. They got that dunk early in the second half. We let it get away from us a little bit.
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