Alabama basketball’s NCAA Tournament run is scheduled to continue on Thursday. The Crimson Tide will face BYU in the Sweet 16 in Newark, with a chance to advance to its second consecutive Elite Eight on the line.

BYU couldn't keep up with Alabama's torrid 3-point shooting and fell 113-88 in an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game Thursday night in Newark, New Jersey.

An old basketball saying goes, “Live by the 3, die by the 3.” BYU’s 113-88 loss to No. 2 seed Alabama in Thursday’s Sweet 16 matchup was the perfect example of that idiom, because the Cougars couldn’t make ’em or defend ’em and that killed their March Madness dreams.

The Alabama Crimson Tide set an NCAA Tournament record with 25 made 3-pointers en route to beating BYU 113-88 in Thursday night’s Sweet 16 matchup. The Tide shot 49% from behind the arc. BYU, meanwhile, went dormant with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line.

Alabama came into the BYU game with 6-of-21 and 7-of-17 shooting from distance in a pair of NCAA tourney wins. As the No. 1 2-point shooting team, Young’s staff emphasized stopping that aspect of Alabama’s attack and analytically believed a struggling Mark Sears and Company would cool off. They never did, and Sears made 10 treys.

Alabama broke the 35-year-old March Madness record for 3-pointers with 25 and Mark Sears scored 30 of his 34 points on 3s in an 113-88 victory over BYU in an NCAA Tournament East Region semifinal.

The Dan Le Batard Show crew react to Alabama thrashing BYU in the Sweet 16 while setting NCAA Tournament records for 3-pointers attempted and made, with 51 and 25, respectively.

Alabama will face the winner of No. 1 Duke vs. No. 4 Arizona in the Elite Eight on Saturday, March 29. Alabama set a men's NCAA Tournament record with 25 3-pointers. Mark Sears made 10 of those 3-pointers en route to a game-high 34 points.

So egregious was their resistance in that regard, it helped the Crimson Tide, as Young alluded to, set an NCAA Tournament single-game record for made deep balls (25 of 51). Some of that was straight due to great shot-making. But the Cougars’ lapses gave ‘Bama shooters full license to feel like they were channeling Steph Freaking Curry.