🌱 Tide Hoops Updates + Longtime UA Trustee Dies

Get on up, T-Town! It's setting up to be a busy week so let's get you all caught up before you get out the door.

In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...

• Tide hoops.
• Fatal Sumter County wreck.
• Longtime UA trustee dies

But first, today's weather: Mostly sunny. High: 59 | Low: 34 🌞

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Monday morning goes to West Alabama men's basketball, despite seeing its season coming to an end in a loss to Alabama Huntsville Sunday evening in the semifinals round of the NCAA Division II South Regional Tournament at Rick Case Arena. (More)

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Top seeded Alabama men's basketball got sweet revenge over the Texas A&M Aggies with an 82-63 win to claim its second SEC Tournament Title in three years and the eighth in program history. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. Alabama men's basketball (29-5, 17-2 SEC) received the overall No. 1 seed and the No. 1 seed for the South Region in the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and will open the Big Dance in Birmingham at Legacy Arena. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. Two people are dead following a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Sumter County. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
4. The University of Alabama System is mourning the death of longtime trustee Jim Wilson, who served on the board for the last two decades and died Saturday morning. (Stephen Dethrage, Tuscaloosa Thread)
5. While the Crimson Tide men's basketball won big on Sunday, the UA Adapted Athletics Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team claimed its 9th national title in school history over the week. Don't miss this photo gallery of the historic occasion. (Gary Cosby, Jr., Tuscaloosa News)

5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. Gallery: Alabama Men's Basketball | SEC Championship Game (David Gray, Crimson White)
2. Family of missing Walker County woman seeking answers 5 years after disappearance (David Lamb, CBS 42 News)
3. With a 'ceiling like no other' is No. 1 seed Alabama peaking at the right time? (Nick Alvarez, AL.com)
4. Alabama Legislature honors U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (John H. Glenn, Alabama Political Reporter)
5. Ivey to send lawmakers her '24 budget proposals after special session (Mary Sell, Alabama Daily News)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

Clara Mae Smith, 84 of Northport (Magnolia Chapel)

Milton Ward "Dick" Holley, Jr., 81, of Tuscaloosa (Magnolia Chapel)

Ryan Childers, 30, of Jasper (Nelson Funeral Home)

Jacqueline Hughes Mungo, 81, of Fayette (Norwood-Wyatt Chapel)

James Beavers, 59, of Reform (Sunset Chapel)

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You're all caught up for today! See you all tomorrow morning for your next update.

— RP

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