Alabama Basketball Defeats Wichita State 64-60

The coach’s daughter, Maggie Marshall, said she was “thankful he is okay” in a tweet in which she said Grady would be “out for a few days”.

“We put two pretty good halves together defensively”, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. Their struggles are pretty simple, then: They aren’t making shots, and they’re letting opponents get easy points at the free throw line. Getting stops created easy baskets and WSU perked up with an 18-2 run, cutting Iowa’s lead to 66-51 on three-pointers by Hamilton and Zach Brown. There was no immediate word on his condition.Wichita State was without guard Fred VanVleet, an All-American candidate who missed his third game because of a hamstring injury, and backup freshman point guard Landry Shamet (foot).The Tide had lost 21 consecutive games against ranked teams, dating to a January 18, 2011, win over Kentucky. For the game, the Tide shot 40.5 percent (17-42) from the floor compared to 31.1 percent (19-61) for the Shockers.

“I was scared when he fell because to me it looked like a heart issue”, said Shocker coach Gregg Marshall, according to Lutz. As soon as we’re done here, we’re going to go check on him. However, Hale did not seem all that active in the other aspects of the game, and would disappear for long stretches. “I’m proud of them”.

Wichita released a statement following the team’s 84-62 loss to Iowa on Sunday in which Grady thanked his friends, family and supporters for “all of the love and encouragement” he has received following his injury.

“Our prayers are with him”, Alabama’s Riley Norris said. “Going forward, I can’t predict. I want to make sure it’s the right time”.

USC (5-0) got 15 points from Jordan McLaughlin.

“Seeing your brother on the court like that, obviously it’s more than the game at that point”, WSU senior Ron Baker said. That could have been any one of my players out there in that situation, it could have been any of our children.

After the Trojans had their lead cut to one, Boatwright’s three from the corner gave USC a 64-60 advantage with 4½ minutes left.

Alabama basketball bounced back from yesterday’s loss to upset the 20th-ranked Wichita State Shockers, 64-60, at the AdvoCare Invitational on Friday.

And on Sunday morning, Wichita State couldn’t even keep it competitive against Iowa. “I thought we pushed the ball well, Dazon (Ingram), Justin (Coleman) orchestrated the offense really well today and got us the easy shots, and we were able to score more”.

The Crimson Tide made 8 of 9 free throws in the final thre minutes of the half.

Baker hit a three-pointer with three seconds left during a late surge that pulled the Shockers to within 71-69.

Like turning on a light switch, the Hawkeyes reverted back to their first half/early second half selves to quickly re-up the lead to 25 (in large part to six points by Peter Jok).