Nate Oats off and running to start frenetic basketball offseason
Four days ago, Nate Oats wrapped up his fourth season as head coach of Buffalo with a tough loss in the second round of the NCAA tournament.Three days ago he was checking voicemails after landing back in upstate New York and discovered one from Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne.
Commentary: Thoughts on a basketball interregnum
With Avery Johnson officially out after four seasons as Alabama’s basketball coach, a few scattered thoughts...
Defections are coming, but that would have happened either way:
Bama hires Nate Oats as Men’s Basketball Coach
Alabama AD Greg Byrne tweeted a welcome to Buffalo’s Nate Oats as the Crimson Tide’s new head coach. We will have full details soon...
Avery Johnson needs to use NIT to focus on future
In two previous NIT trips, Avery Johnson stuck with his conventional strategies and rotations - and got a pair of lackluster losses for his trouble with teams that clearly were uninterested in playing any more basketball.
Alabama’s postseason fate may depend on upsetting Wildcats again
By Chris DePew
TideFans.com Staff
March 15, 2019
Where to watch: Alabama (18-14 - #60 Pomeroy Rating) vs. No. 4 Kentucky (26-5 - #8), Today 6 p.m....
Arkansas trip is last best chance to reverse ugly trends
Whether it is an over reliance on 17-year-old Kira Lewis late in the year or teams getting more tape on Avery Johnson’s offensive sets, Bama’s last best chance to correct course will be against the Hogs, who are giving up 72.9 points per game and haven’t held anyone besides Vanderbilt under 70 points since the end of January.
Norfolk State 80, Alabama 79: A change has got to come at the top
In an unsatisfactory yet entirely appropriate ending to a lost season, top-seeded Alabama blew yet another double-digit lead at Coleman Coliseum and fell 80-79 in overtime to No. 8 Norfolk State in the first round of the NIT.
This Week In The SEC: The S.S. Commodore is now a plague ship
By Chris DePew
TideFans.com Staff
Jan. 12, 2016
Everything and everybody said this was Vanderbilt’s year.
After three straight years of NCAA Tournament misses, the Commodores were a...
Alabama 74, LSU 66: Shorthanded Tide grinds out a gut check win
Alabama survived 19 turnovers and the absence of Donta Hall to secure its first road win of the season, a 74-66 victory at LSU.
Kentucky 73, Alabama 55: Tide falls meekly as UK approaches peak form
For the fourth consecutive season, the Crimson Tide crashed out of the SEC tournament on a Big Blue wave, as fourth-ranked Kentucky dispatched Alabama 73-55 in a quarterfinal matchup in Nashville.
