An NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed to the winner? ESPN’s broadcast crew — which, gloriously, included Dick Vitale after another win over cancer — may have overhyped and oversimplified a bit. Still, it was major,

The first time Auburn and Alabama men’s basketball faced off this season, it was as the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the country, the first time that had ever happened in the history of the SEC. Their second meeting was somehow even better.

Mark Sears hit a game-winning floater as time expired, and No. 7 Alabama spoiled the home finale of rival and No. 1 Auburn with a 93-91 overtime road win Saturday. The off-balance buzzer-beater from the free-throw line was only the third made basket of the game for Sears,