ATLANTA — With one payback game in the books, next up for the Kentucky men’s basketball team in the Southeastern Conference Tournament is a chance at redemption against Alabama. On the back of JaMychal Green’s 20 points, the Crimson Tide rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit Friday to stun Georgia in overtime. Alabama defeated UK in mid-January, one of the Cats’ six losses by five points or less.”Wow,” Calipari said of Alabama’s comeback. “I didn’t watch the game, so I can’t tell you all that, but all I know is they’re really good. I went down and talked to their tip-off club and I said, ‘You people don’t realize how good this team is,’ because they lost early and because they had some guys out.”Physical and defensively tough was how just about every Wildcat described their semifinals opponent. Alabama held Kentucky to 37.7 percent shooting in the first meeting, UK’s fourth-lowest mark of the year.”Outworked, outhustled, letting them be tougher than us,” was how Kentucky freshman guard Brandon Knight remembered the first matchup.In that game, Alabama led by as many as 20 points in Tuscaloosa, Ala., before a furious second-half rally from UK.”Don’t look at the final score,” Calipari said. “They smashed us.”Alabama was in a play-in game of sorts Friday. Despite winning the West’s top seed and a 12-4 mark in league play, most experts thought Alabama had to beat Georgia to earn an at-large berth. It’s debatable whether or not Friday’s win secured a spot in the Big Dance for the Crimson Tide, but a victory over the Cats in the semifinals on Saturday would almost certainly lock up a bid.”They’re going to have a lot of confidence,” UK junior Darius Miller said. “They’ve been playing good recently. It’s going to be another tough game, probably just like today. We’ll probably have to try to finish it at the end.”