Scarbinsky: When it gets in, Alabama will be a tough out come
March Madness  Kevin Scarbinsky | By Kevin Scarbinsky | Email
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updated February 08, 2011 at 6:47 AM  releford-msu.jpgTrevor
Releford has been a big part of Alabama's climb. (The Birmingham
News / Mark Almond)  The head coach isn't on the hot seat. He
hasn't been removed and replaced by an interim guy. There's no
ongoing search for a new coach.  Despite the absence of those
headline-grabbing conditions, Alabama basketball is doing a lot
more than filling the time between Signing Day and the start of
spring practice.  It's making a football state take notice for
all the right reasons, chief among them leading the SEC at the
halfway point of the conference season.  It's forcing the
basketball world to sit up and pay attention, too. Alabama's
trying to prove that you can struggle through your non-
conference schedule and still make the NCAA Tournament by
surging through your conference slate