Brigham Young Cougars head coach Kevin Young yells to his players from the sidelines during a Big 12 Championship semifinal game between BYU and the Houston Cougars at the T-Mobil

Just a couple miles from where Tony Soprano was raised, Alabama basketball thrashed BYU in the NCAA Tournament with a Soprano-like coldness.

Alabama star Mark Sears is one double-digit game away from passing one of the most iconic Hall of Famers in college and professional basketball.

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.

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.

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.

Man, I really respect what he is doing at Alabama.” Oats’ reply: “Man, the way we shot it tonight, maybe we will.” In what was supposed to be a track meet,

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