Alabama Basketball 2021-22 Season Preview: Guards
By Matt Melton
Darius Miles
Miles enters year two with the Crimson Tide after appearing in 17 games a year ago in which he averaged 4.3 MPG as a freshman. Across those 17 games, Miles averaged 2.2 PPG on 41.4% from the field, 35% from three, and 87.5% from the free throw line.
A former three-star prospect according to 247Sports, Miles averaged 13.6 PPG, 5.7 RPG, and 2.2 APG during the 2018-19 campaign at Theodore Roosevelt (DC), before spending the 2019-20 season with IMG Academy’s (FL) postgraduate team averaging 12.1 PPG. Coming to Tuscaloosa as a talented scorer, we could see more of that from Miles this season as a key piece on the Crimson Tide’s bench.
Despite a fairly limited sample-size a year ago, the sophomore will likely play a bigger role in the Crimson Tide’s rotation, which makes the sophomore guard a potential breakout candidate during the 2021-22 season. Flashing some moments of what he is capable of offensively a year ago, expect Miles to play an important role off the Alabama bench as a player capable of playing anywhere from the 1-3.
2021-22 Season Prediction: 4.3 PPG, 2.1 RPG, 0.9 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.5 BPG, 39.5 FG%, 34.3 3P%, 82.1 FT%