Alabama guard Mark Sears has endured a topsy-turvy season in which he twice was held scoreless and was benched for the entire second half in the more recent blanking.

The best available shooter on the Alabama team this year has been Aden Holloway, and it’s not particularly close, either.

Almost exactly a decade ago, a seventh-grader sat in the nosebleeds at Coleman Coliseum taking in his first ever Alabama men’s basketball game. He woke up one January 2015 day and made the trip from ...