Live Updates: Alabama Basketball Hosts Richmond

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama men's basketball returns to Coleman Coliseum to take on the Richmond Spiders after a three-game road trip. 

The Crimson Tide (6-5) is winners of four of their last five and coming off of a 92-72 victory over Belmont. While, the Spiders (10-2) have won five of their last six and are coming off of a 73-58 loss to Radford. 

Tipoff is set for 5:30 p.m. on SEC Network. 

Pregame

• Crimson Tide starters: G Kira Lewis, Jr., G John Petty, Jr., F Herb Jones, F Alex Reese, and F Javian Davis. 

• Richmond starters: G Jacob Gilyard, G Blake Francis, G Nick Sherod, F Nathan Cayo, F Grant Golden 

First Half 

• Davis wins the tip for the Crimson Tide.
• Lewis is at the free-throw line and he sinks one of two to start the game.
• Cayo gets a dunk to put the Spiders on the board.  
• Richmond has opened the game on a 8-3 run. 
• Jaden Shackelford and Galin Smith are the first substitutes for the Crimson Tide. 
• At the first media timeout, Richmond leads 10-5. 
• Shackelford nails a three-pointer out of the timeout. He hits another on the next possession. Alabama has the lead, 11-10. 
• Beetle Bolden has entered the game. 
• Shackelford bangs home another three from the corner and the Crimson Tide has its largest lead of the game at six. 16-10 with 13:48 to go. Richmond calls a timeout. 
• Jaylen Forbes has checked in. 
• At the under 12 minute timeout, Alabama leads 18-13. 
• Jones leads the way for a transition dunk to put Alabama up 24-18.
• Lewis makes an and-one layup and Alabama's lead is 28-21 going into the under eight minute timeout. 
• Lewis makes the free-throw and the Crimson Tide is up eight with 7:16 remaining.  
• After Lewis committed that foul, Richmond is now in the bonus going forward.
• Petty drains his first three-pointer of the game and Alabama is up nine with four minutes to go. 
• At the last media timeout of the half, the Crimson Tide hold a 36-29 advantage. Shackelford leads all scorers with 11. 
• Alabama is now in the bonus and Reese hits both from the free-throw line. 
• Nate Oats just received a technical foul. Francis makes both for the Spiders. 
• After that field goal by Koureissi, the Spiders have cut Alabama's lead to only three. 38-35 with two minutes remaining. 
• Gilyard makes two free-throws and the Crimson Tide lead is one. 
• Shackelford stops the bleeding with a three-pointer. Lewis comes back on the other end and hits a tough layup. Alabama up 43-37. 
• Sherrod makes a bucket and Oats calls a timeout with Alabama up four with 39 seconds in the half. 
• The Crimson Tide will take a 43-39 lead into halftime after the Spiders could not convert multiple field goal attempts. 
• Bolden is down after a hard fall grabbing his lower back. He will slowly walk into the locker room. More info to come. 
•  Shackelford and Lewis are the only Crimson Tide players in double digits with 14 and 10, respectively. Shackelford also has a game-high six rebounds. 

Second Half

• Bolden is not on the court for the second half warmups. 
• Both teams will trot out the same starters for this half. 
• Golden scores a layup for the Spiders to open the scoring to make it 43-41. 
• Reese hits his first three-pointer of the game to make it a five-point Crimson Tide advantage. 
• Lewis banks in a three. The Crimson Tide is starting to warm up from distance after a poor effort in the first half from beyond the arc. 
• Petty gets in on the action with his first three of the evening. Crimson Tide up seven 52-45. 
• At the under-16 media timeout, Alabama owns a 54-47 lead. Crimson Tide ball when action resumes. 
• Bolden has checked back in and he hits a three-point basket. 
• Four of the Crimson Tide five baskets in this half have been three-pointers.
• Jones makes a tip in and then on the other end Shackelford takes a charge and Alabama is in business, leading 61-49 with 11:41 in the game. 
• After Shackelford's last three-pointer, he is up to 22 points on the game and the Crimson Tide lead 67-51. 
• Richmond is on a 7-0 run thanks to a three-pointer by Wojcik.
• Petty responds with another trey. This half is turning into a shootout. 
• Another three-pointer by Wojcik and three free throws by Gilyard has cut Alabama's double digit lead to six. 70-64 with eight minutes to go. 
• Shackelford is feeling it. He just hit his sixth three and now he has 27 points. Crimson Tide up 75-69 with six minutes left in the contest. 
• Richmond is now in the double bonus so it will shoot two from here on out. Wojcik makes just one from the charity stripe and Alabama leads 80-72. 
• Back to back layups by Jones and Lewis have the Crimson Tide back up double digits. 84-72 with 3:08 left. 
• The Spiders have not scored in the last 3:25. 
• A Sherrod three-pointer brings the Spiders' scoring drought to an end. Alabama leads 87-75. 
• With 57 seconds left, Alabama holds a 88-78 advantage. 
• Petty puts the exclamation point on this one with a slam dunk. 
• Alabama defeats Richmond, 90-78.