Road wins are nice, no matter where that road takes you

By Chris Stewart
"Welcome to Macon, Georgia."
"That's a sentence I've never uttered before."

At least not until I opened the Crimson Tide Sports Network broadcast of Alabama basketball at Mercer Tuesday night. The Tide went into a tough place - the beautiful little 3,200 seat Univeristy Center on the Mercer campus - and walked away with a 90-83 victory.

It was a really good win for Alabama. Mark Gottfried took a young team on the road and beat a squad that was three days removed from a 16-point win at #18 USC. Richard Hendrix was a monster inside again with 28 points and 14 boards.

It was also nice to see Alonzo Gee step up and hit some big shots in the 2nd half, en route to a 16-point night. He and Justin Tubbs hit big shots every time the Bears tried to make a serious run at the Tide.

Senario Hillman played well in front of a lot of family and friends. A true freshman from nearby Irwinton, Georgia, Hillman scored nine points, dished out 5 assists, and did not turn the ball over a single time while playing 29 minutes in only his second collegiate game.

This team still has plenty of work to do. But they got better and learned how to win a road game in front of a hostile crowd.

That's a good lesson, and a good start.

Chris Stewart is the pre and post game host for the Crimson Tide Sports Network's coverage of Alabama Football. In addition, he hosts a talk show each weekday morning from 7 until 9 on Tuscaloosa's Sports Radio 1420, The Tusk. Stewart is also the radio play-by-play announcer for University of Alabama men's basketball.   Bama Fever is a company devoted to providing University of Alabama Crimson Tide merchandise. We have stores in Birmingham, Tuscaloosa  and Huntsville and have now created an online catalog for Crimson Tide fans all over the world searching for that hard to find merchandise. We carry over 7,000 items in our stores and have posted many of these items right here in our online catalog.

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