Despite the college basketball season ending just about a month ago, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi is already taking a crack at predicting the 2023 field. Lunardi has been ESPN’s lead analyst for college basketball and in 2008 picked the entire 65 team tournament correctly. In other words, he is one of if not the best minds in college hoops.
Currently, he sees the Big 10, SEC and Big 12 each leading the way with seven teams to each qualify. Among those seven SEC teams are the Alabama Crimson Tide who he predicts as a five seed in the West (Las Vegas) region. He predicts that they would meet up with the Liberty Flames.
[autotag]Nate Oats[/autotag] and company are still more than capable of competing for an SEC title, even after losing a plethora of talent to the NBA draft and transfer portal. Fortunately, Alabama was able to bring [autotag]Jahvon Quinerly[/autotag] back for one more season as well as [autotag]Nimarri Burnett[/autotag] being one of the most anticipated newcomers in recent memory.
The Tide are still looking to bring in a player or two from the portal. When the time comes though, the Tide will be ready to roll.
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