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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 7:41 p.m. / AP Mercer's Jeff Smith, right, blocks Alabama's Charvez Davis during an NCAA college basketball game in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday, Dec.

Former St. Jude star and Mr. Basketball JaMychal Green scored a late tiebreaking basket and then made the lead stand.

Alabama's basketball team took a step forward Friday night when the Crimson Tide scored the game's final 10 points and defeated Big East member Providence 84-75. Mikhail Torrance scored 26 points - six in the final 44 seconds - to lead the Crimson Tide to a victory in front of an announced crowd of 10,032. Andrew Steele's basket off a nice inbounds ...

Five stats, facts and people you need to know before Alabama's game against the Friars.

An AlA abama basketball season starts today, and one of the teams on the ColeA man Coliseum court will be a two-time defending conference champion that has made two conA secutive NCAA TournaA ment appearances.

Scouting Alabama Coach: Anthony Grant Record: 0-0 Last time out: Forward JaMychal Green scored 12 points, and the Crimson Tide overcame 23 turnovers to beat Augusta State, 61-55, in an exhibition game Tuesday at Coleman Coliseum.

A week ago, Alabama played its first exhibition basketball game of the 2009-10 season and easily defeated Montevallo 81-53. Tonight, the Crimson Tide is taking on a different team from the Division II Peach Belt Conference, and it's a different story.

At some point during an open scrimmage during Thursday's basketball practice at Alabama, junior guard Senario Hillman hit the floor -- hard.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: F Tony Mitchell, a four-star prospect , signed a year ago but had academic issues to clear up and thus was delayed a year.

Basketball season at Alabama is going to be different, Mikhail Torrance promised.

Anthony Grant's first Alabama basketball team is going to run. It started running weeks ago, it will continue running when practice officially starts Friday, and it will run all the way through a season that starts Nov.

The Crimson Tide faithful have shed the shadows of Mark Gottfried's mediocrity and are hoping for a resurgence to being once again regarded as a powerhouse in the SEC Western Division, and the conference as a whole.