Nate Oats and Mark Pope are two of the best offensive minds in college basketball. Their brilliance was put on full display Saturday in Rupp Arena as Alabama and Kentucky combined to score 199 points in a 102-97 win for the Crimson Tide.
In particular, Alabama attacked a trio of Kentucky guards — Koby Brea, Jaxson Robinson and Travis Perry — and had a great deal of success doing so. Wildcats head coach Mark Pope noticed it, but there wasn't much he or his team could do about it.
Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats didn't spare the top of his roster ... And in response, the top of the roster spared Kentucky no mercy. Seniors Mark Sears and Grant Nelson led the Crimson ...
Mark Sears was benched over the weekend against LSU, but he bounced back nicely against Mississippi State.
Alabama (15-3, 4-1 SEC) trailed for the next eight minutes before starting forward Grant Nelson reclaimed a lead that had been denied by Kentucky's non-starters. TIME TO PANIC?Why Nate Oats and ...
But of all the games on the schedule that you didn’t think you’d have to worry about, it’s this one: The perpetually-slumbering Georgia Bulldogs. And that is a team I simply do not want to play in Athens.
Host Mason Woods and guest Joe Gaither dive into all things Crimson Tide this week, talking recruiting, Senior Bowl and more.
The Alabama men’s basketball team set an SEC record for the longest single-season streak of road games with 85 or more points on Wednesday night at Mississippi State. The Crimson Tide is 6-1 in games played at Coleman Coliseum this season.
Compared to other teams in the SEC, it wasn't that long ago that Georgia tasted a win against Alabama basketball. Picks and predictions for Saturday.
The best part of Dan Hurley’s latest week at the center of sports villain discourse was his hard pivot on a podcast that was unfolding as expected — a little bit of damage control, a touch of mea culpa,
In benching Sears, Oats made sure that his point guard would be ready for the fight. And if Sears needs a rest, well, Alabama’s cutthroat, win-first coach planned ahead by taking Auburn’s old point guard and making him better.