The Alabama basketball team pulled out all the stops for its Saturday night showdown with a Georgia team that was 0-5 in the SEC.

Turns out that on Friday night, a day before the Alabama basketball team played Georgia, Saban sat them down and gave them some sort of a fiery pep talk. Who said the man couldn’t whip any team into a frenzy? And it worked.

Yep. It worked all right. A 75-70 win over a team that had just lost by 26 at Florida and fired its coach. Way to go, Lombardi.