Overview
- Alabama improved to 6-2 with a 90-84 home win after Clemson erased a big first-half deficit to draw even and briefly lead.
- Labaron Philon Jr. hit a clutch jumper at 2:07 to make it 86-83 and finished with 29 points on 9-of-17 shooting and 8-of-8 free throws.
- Freshman Amari Allen posted a career-best 20 points with 11 rebounds for his first double-double.
- Freshman London Jemison added 13 points and went 3-for-6 from deep, including a go-ahead three in the closing stretch.
- Alabama played without Aden Holloway, Latrell Wrightsell Jr., Keitenn Bristow and Collins Onyejiaka, while transfer Jalil Bethea made his season debut in limited minutes; UTSA visits Sunday at 1 p.m. CT on SEC Network.