Chris Youngblood made 3-pointers in 124 of his first 133 college basketball games.

But seven?

His performance Wednesday night in Alabama’s 88-84 win at No. 14 Mississippi State was a career-best for the senior.

The transfer who previously played at Kennesaw State and South Florida went 7-for-10 from long range to score a season-high 23 points and key the Crimson Tide’s most accurate perimeter shooting night of the season.

Alabama (18-3, 7-1 SEC) made 15 of 31 shots from behind the arc for a season-best 48.4 shooting percentage on 3-point shots. Its previous high was 44.4% against UNC Asheville (8-for-18) while the 15 made shots is second best behind the 19 (on 55 attempts) against South Dakota State.

Youngblood made nearly half of those deep balls on a night Alabama scrapped with the Bulldogs from the opening tip.

He went 4-for-5 in the first half before making three straight late in the second — each coming with the game either tied or within a basket of it.

He put the Tide up 80-77 with 4:15 left on his final shot from the field while his two free throws with 10 seconds left gave the visitors an 87-84 lead.

Youngblood was asked in the postgame newsconference if he’d ever had a game where he made 70% of 10 shots from the perimeter.

“I’m pretty humbly speaking, I’m pretty sure I have,” Youngblood said. “But yeah, you just don’t really think about it. Go shot for shot. Don’t think about the next shot or last shot. I missed two free throws in a row. That was crazy. But, you know, just. Just keep it going.”

If he had another 7-for-10 game, it wasn’t on the collegiate level. He made six 3-pointers on three occasions including a 6-for-7 night last February at Rice when playing for South Florida.

Mark Sears added 17 points while making 3 of his 5 shots from the perimeter but it was Grant Nelson’s shot from the corner that put the Tide up for good. The game was knotted at 80 when Sears spotted him with 2:30 left. His only made 3 in five attempts gave Alabama a lead it wouldn’t surrender.

But it was Youngblood’s deadeye shooting that had the visitors in that position.

“Hopefully, this is Chris’s coming out party here,” Alabama coach Nate Oats said, “because he looked pretty, pretty good on both ends of the floor.”

Nelson had 15 points for Alabama while Aden Holloway had 12 while going 3-for-7 from 3-point range.

This was a game that included 11 lead changes and seven ties but Alabama led for 24:28 while MSU was up for 12:03.

Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.