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Tide turning at right time

By Pat Forde
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Alabama has done this dance before. The Big Dance dance. The are-we-in-or-are-we-out two-step. The bubble boogie. Put on your John Travolta white leisure suit, Mark Gottfried, and prepare for Late February Fever. Mr. Bubble at least has some practice at this shuffle. For the third time in the last four seasons, the Crimson Tide enters the homestretch awash in NCAA Tournament uncertainty. Once again, Team Cliffhanger is in need of victories -- just to have the right to sweat out Selection Sund ...

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