9 nationally, well ahead of the 2005 team’s No. Last year’s Tide won a share of the SEC regular-season title for the first time since 2002, claimed the SEC tournament championship for the first time since 1991 and posted the program’s highest final rating in the KenPom era by a significant margin, finishing No. Regardless of how it ended, 2020-21 was nevertheless the most successful season of Alabama men’s basketball in roughly 20 years, dating back to the early days of Mark Gottfried’s (ultimately ill-fated) tenure.
The reluctance stems from the ending - an unexpected want-to-have-it-back Sweet 16 loss to UCLA - but creates an odd dichotomy. As Nate Oats puts it, neither he nor his players are particularly interested in talking about last year.
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