TUSCALOOSA — They weren’t exactly the Crimson Cabaret, but Alabama’s Alonzo Gee, Senario Hillman and Mikhail Torrance were leading cheers and waving towels the final few minutes of the Crimson Tide’s 88-67 victory over Arkansas on Wednesday night.

Finally, a breather. It was Alabama’s largest margin of victory in a Southeastern Conference game since it beat Auburn, 94-53, in March 2005.

Every Alabama player scored, including seldom-used junior Greg Cage, whose free throw and driving layup in the final minutes drew two of the game’s largest ovations from the announced crowd of 9,161.

“He surprised us with the drive,” reserve forward Yamene Coleman said. “He usually catches it and passes, but he surprised us with that.”

Coleman played a significant role Wednesday night. He was a perfect 6-for-6 from the floor and grabbed six rebounds in 21 minutes. His 12 points were 2 shy of his career high.

“I didn’t do it by myself,” Coleman said. “I got a couple of my baskets from Senario Hillman by him penetrating and getting me the ball.”

In fact, Hillman recorded a career high with seven assists to go with 13 points.

“Every time I penetrated they were doubling me, so I wanted to get it to the open man,” Hillman said.

There were open men because Arkansas tried to find an answer for Gee, who followed Saturday’s 28-point performance against Mississippi State with a dominating first half.

“Alonzo was huge again tonight, certainly early in the game,” Alabama interim coach Philip Pearson said.

Gee hit six straight shots — five of them 3-pointers — in a 12-minute stretch. His first bucket came with Alabama trailing 8-3. That started a 20-2 run for the Tide that opened a 23-10 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half.

The Tide kept rolling to a 49-23 halftime lead.

Gee finished with 23 points on 8-of-14 shooting, 5-of-6 from 3-point range. His five treys were a career high.

“Senario Hillman and Mikhail Torrance got me some great looks,” Gee said. “It felt great to make some shots tonight. After I made that first shot I just knew it was going to be a good night for me.”

“Gee, when he is playing well, is as good as anybody in our league and one of the best in the country,” Arkansas coach John Pelphrey said. “He’s really special.”

Alabama (15-12 overall, 5-8 SEC) shot 64 percent from the field on 18-of-28 shooting in the first half, including 7-of-11 from 3-point range. By contrast, the Razorbacks (13-13, 1-12 SEC) were 8-of-29 and 1-of-14 from long range in the first half.

That’s no way to get healthy on the road in the Southeastern Conference.

“Tonight’s something that hasn’t happened to us in league play,” said Pelphrey, whose team started three freshmen and had four others on the bench. “This is different for us. We haven’t had to deal with this. We’re disappointed. We’ve just got to play better. Give credit to Alabama ... The perimeter shot was something that really opened the game up for them. They did a good job of getting the ball where it needed to be ... We couldn’t make a basket.”

Pearson said Alabama was worried about Arkansas’ outside shooting with freshman point guard Courtney Fortson and freshman sharpshooter Rotnei Clarke.

“I thought Senario Hillman early did a good job of taking Clarke out of the basketball game, which I thought was key,” Pearson said.

There was no drama in the second half. Alabama led by as many as 30 points and the Arkansas got no closer than 20.

Fortson led the Razorbacks with 21 points. Clarke finished with 16, but 11 of those came in the second half.

Arkansas reserve guard Jason Henry was taken out of the game after he was hit in the head.

“He was out of it,” Pelphrey said. “He was just sitting with his head in his hands. I felt like doing the same thing.”

Alabama next plays Saturday at Ole Miss at 3 p.m. The Tide’s next home game is Tuesday at 8 p.m. against Auburn.