After a wild opening weekend of March Madness that featured 48 games in the first two rounds, the SEC heads into the Sweet 16 tied in first place as the conference with the most teams remaining (3).
Alabama gymnastics advances to the NCAA National Championship semifinals with a second place finish in the Seattle Regional Finals. The Tide scored a 198.175 which is the second highest score in program history. They had eight scores of 9.950 with seven different gymnasts scoring them. Lilly Hudson scored two 9.950s Saturday night. Alabama gets a couple weeks off from competition before traveling to Ft. Worth, TX for the Championship Semifinals on April 14.
Alabama gymnastics put on a show in Seattle Thursday afternoon. Shallon Olsen earned and tied her career-best scores on balance beam and vault with a 9.950. Luisa Blanco performed on the uneven bars and scored a 9.900 while Makarri Doggette may have retweaked her ankle injury on her bar dismount. She still scored a 9.900, however. Griffin James made her competition debut on floor in place of Blanco and scored a solid 9.875. The Crimson Tide along with Michigan State will compete Saturday at 7 p.m. against the top two teams from session two Thursday night.
Senior cornerback Ronald Williams will be moving onto the Big 10 to play for Mel Tucker and the Michigan State Spartans after just one year in Tuscaloosa.
With the threshold for qualifying for the Big 10 Championship being that six games must be played, it begs the question: What would happen if Ohio State was forced to miss the championship?