Aside from intense national scrutiny around Brandon Miller’s status, the past two weeks have brought a three-point shooting slump to Alabama’s men’s basketball team.

The Tide will prepare for Friday’s quarterfinal game of the SEC tournament in Nashville having shot only 22 percent on three pointers over its past four games.

After draining a season-best 47 percent in a runaway win Feb. 18 over Georgia, Alabama ranked 100th among 352 Division I teams in making 35.7 percent of its three pointers on the season. 91 misses on their past 116 attempts have dropped Alabama’s current ranking to 195th at 33.9 percent.

That is not nearly as low as last season, when Alabama finished 300th in making only 30.9 percent of its triples. But Oats placed an emphasis on improving three-point shooting in the offseason, and it will need its shooters to bounce back in order to make a deep run this March.

This week, Oats and his staff have analyzed every shot its shooters have taken this season in an attempt to find out what’s wrong.

“There’s not any fundamental flaws that we have to go in and fix, necessarily, on a shot,” Oats said. “But there were certain things with different ones. Some guys were leaning out of their shot on their misses, and they were doing it a lot more lately. Some guys weren’t getting as much lift. Part of that may be that their legs were getting a little tired, it’s getting later, so let’s get their legs back up under them.

“We showed all the guys different stuff, tried to work with them to make sure they’re doing this every time.”

Miller, despite scoring 60 points over his past three games, has been one Alabama’s coldest three-point shooters. He has made only four of his past 24 shots from beyond the arc, including only two of 12 in Saturday’s loss at Texas A&M. Elsewhere, Rylan Griffen is 0-for-11 and Noah Clowney is 2-of-12 over the past four games, and Nimari Burnett is 1-of-15 over the past five games.

“Little details were addressed,” Oats said. “Hopefully we’ll see some results this weekend, because it will certainly help if we make shots at a higher level.”

Alabama will play at noon CT on Friday inside Bridgestone Arena against the winner of Thursday’s second-round game between No. 9 seed Mississippi State and No. 8 seed Florida, which will tip off at noon. The Tide beat Florida by 28 points on Feb. 8, before star forward Colin Castleton was lost for the season because of a broken hand.

“Florida’s definitely different now that Castleton is down,” Oats said. “It took them a little bit to adjust. [Freshman guard Riley] Kugel is playing great. Other guys have stepped up. They’re different. They play smaller. They put [Alex] Fudge at the five more. If Florida ends up winning it, we’re going to have to make more adjustments from the first time we played them, just because they’re different.”

Alabama beat Mississippi State by 11 points in Starkville to open its SEC schedule in December, then erased an 11-point deficit to beat the Bulldogs by three points at home in January. It tied a late February win over Arkansas as the closest-contested home game for Alabama this season, which finished 15-0 in Coleman Coliseum.

“They played us really tough the last time,” Oats said. “They’re one of the hardest-playing teams in America. We’re going to have to come ready to go. Obviously Tolu Smith is one of the best players in the league. They say it’s hard to beat a team three times. There’s some truth [to that].

“Whatever way it ends up being, we’re going to have a tough game in front of us. These are not easy tournaments to win. You’ve got to win three tough, hard-fought games in a row.”

Oats skipped cleaning up Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M with his players in an effort not to be “too negative” with them, and he has waited to go in-depth on either possible opponent, too.

“It was good because we got back to really concentrating on us,” he said of this week’s practices. “When you play two games a week for pretty much since Christmas break, you truly prep for that team, prep for the next team, prep for the next team and you’re not focused just on you as much as you were in non-conference, whatever.”

Oats said they set a “program record” in a particular shooting drill this week.

“We got back to really cleaning up what we felt like we needed to get better at,” he said. “I feel like we’re shooting the ball a little better, which would help the situation out. I think our guys got some confidence back. Some guys that were getting a little banged up got their legs back up under them. I think they’re a little more fresh.

“We’re getting ourselves back to being the best version of us we can be.”

Alabama, the No. 1 seed in the tournament, is seeking its second tournament title in the past three seasons after not winning any since 1991.

“We’ve always bounced back after a loss pretty well this year,” Oats said. “I expect nothing different this time.”

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.