Alabama head coach Nate Oats talks about moving to 3-0 in SEC play by defeating Mississippi State

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00:00 I mean, it's a tough place to get a win.

00:03 I mean, Coach Jans is one of the best coaches in the country,

00:07 coaching defense toughness.

00:09 And it's one of the tougher teams.

00:11 I mean, you saw what they did to Tennessee here last game.

00:14 I think Tennessee's one of the tougher teams

00:16 and they thought I toughed them for most of the game.

00:20 So for us to come in here and get a big win,

00:23 I thought, and we had some guys really step up defensively.

00:26 I thought Charlie was one of them.

00:28 I thought Corrine Nelson's defense inside on Tolu

00:32 was huge for us.

00:33 Rylan starting to come around, really guard and play well.

00:38 Obviously it was not one of our better offensive games,

00:40 but it's good to win on the road

00:44 when you don't play great on offense all the time.

00:45 So we made free throws too.

00:47 Our four guards went 16 and 16 at the free throw line

00:50 between Charlie, Rylan, Mark and Aaron.

00:53 They didn't miss a free throw.

00:54 So a lot of positives.

00:56 We had them out rebounding for most of the game.

00:58 We ended up losing by one, but the team that rebounds

01:01 as well as they do, I thought we did a pretty good job

01:02 for most of the game.

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