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Patrick Murphy and his delusional disciples will celebrate a “series win”. But this felt like a setback against a team with a losing record. GAME 1: ALABAMA 2, MISSOURI 1 Continuing a disturbing trend from Tuesday’s game against ULM, the Crimson Tide offense was a bit lackadaisical, outside of two swings. Solo home runs by […]
Another year, another opening game win in the NCAA Tournament for Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide, as the guys battled back from an early deficit to roll Hofstra 90-70 on Friday afternoon. In fact, the win for Oats moved him into a tie with the great Wimp Sanderson for most NCAA Tournament victories […]
Nate Oats crew had to overcome the loss of guard Aden Holloway and sloppy early play from the Tide — as well as ridiculous officiating from the referees — in the first round of the NCAAM Tournament to top 13-seed Hofstra on Friday afternoon. Despite the issues for Alabama, the 4th seeded Crimson Tide led […]
Nate Oats crew had to overcome the loss of guard Aden Holloway and sloppy early play from the Tide — as well as ridiculous officiating from the referees — in the first round of the NCAAM Tournament to top 13-seed Hofstra on Friday afternoon. Despite the issues for Alabama, the 4th seeded Crimson Tide led […]
The 4th seeded Tide got 29 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists from Labaron Philon and defeated 13th seeded Hofstra 90-70 on Friday afternoon in Tampa. The Alabama Crimson Tide opened NCAA Tournament play on Friday afternoon in Tampa, FL. The 4th seeded Crimson Tide defeated the 13th seeded Hofstra Pride 90-70 in the game […]
Alabama came into the first round heavily favored against 13-seed Hofstra and won going away, by a score of 90-70. Things started out great for the Tide, as they jumped out to a 8-2 lead in the first couple of minutes. Unfortunately, the dumb basketball that we’ve seen from this team at times showed up, […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, as the Alabama Crimson Tide join in on the NCAA Tournament action for the sixth season in a row! With all of the distractions caused by Aden Holloway’s arrest earlier this week, the 4th-seeded Tide has been put on upset watch by a lot of folks in […]
With tougher series on the horizon, it is important that the Crimson Tide bats keep churning out the hits and earn a sweep in Columbia. TUESDAY: ALABAMA 4, ULM 1 I told y’all: Patrick Murphy gets all his ideas from RBR. 😉 Ambrey Taylor got the start at third base against ULM (17-15) and hit […]
Day One of the 2026 NCAA Tournament is officially in the books, and boy was it a doozy of a day. A trio of teams seeded 11 or worse pulled off outright upsets – highlighted by High Point’s electric win over Wisconsin – and we came awfully close to seeing our third ever 16-seed advance […]
In case you missed it, here is first installment breaking down all of Alabama’s incoming offensive linemen. This first article focused on the freshmen and a JUCO, while today’s piece is focused on the massive haul the Tide got in from the Transfer Portal this year. With Alabama losing 4 of their 5 starters from […]
Update: We’ll go ahead and keep this one up until Alabama plays this afternoon. The Friday schedule is now posted below for you. It’s that time of year again, folks. Alabama fans will have to wait a day to see the Tide play as the Midwest 4-seed, but there is plenty of basketball on for […]
Happy Thursday, everyone. The NCAA Tournament starts in earnest today, and we will have an open thread for you. Alabama doesn’t play until tomorrow afternoon against Hofstra. Former Tide standout Aaron Estrada, a key cog on Nate Oats’ Final Four team, was a transfer from Hofstra and will be rooting for the Pride over the […]
Alabama enters the NCAAM Tournament as the #4 seed and will be tipping off against Hofstra on Friday afternoon. Despite the Tide losing guard Aden Holloway to a recent arrest, Alabama is still expected to take down the #13 seeded Hofstra Pride. According to the FanDuel sportsbook, the Tide opens up favored by -11.5 points, […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide came home from a road trip to Kentucky where there were swept in a three game series, just to turn around and travel to Mobile to play South Alabama on Tuesday. The Tide lost that contest by a score of 6-3 in an ugly display of baseball. Alabama committed five errors […]
Happy Gump Day, everyone. A couple of days before Alabama takes the court in NCAA tournament action, Theodore Fernandez of SI notes that you should probably get to know the name Cruz Davis. Davis is one of the best guards in the nation, regardless of level. The CAA Player of the Year averaged 20.2 points […]
On Monday, Zach Barnett of FootballScoop.com made an interesting observation that “total offense was down to its lowest point in a generation last season”. Barnett cites this past season’s North Texas offense and goes on about Baylor offenses of yore. But for our purposes, we want to get to the root of why this trend […]
Well the big news yesterday was that Aden Holloway was arrested for marijuana. With the NCAA tournament just days away, Alabama will likely be without one of its most important players. Junior guard Aden Holloway was arrested Monday after authorities allegedly found over a pound of marijuana during a narcotics search at a Tuscaloosa residence, […]
Happy Monday, everyone. The Gym Tide fell in a close one to 6th-ranked Georgia on Friday night but posted a solid 197.425 score. Softball took two of three from Arkansas, and baseball was swept at 21st-ranked Kentucky. That result doesn’t bode well for Rob Vaughn’s squad in a typically loaded SEC that boasts 11 ranked […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide went on the road to open SEC play and were swept by the 16th ranked Kentucky Wildcats, losing all three games. The Tide fell to 15-6 overall and 0-3 in conference. The Cats improved to 18-2 and 3-0 in SEC play. Game One- Lost 7-4 Alabama right hander Tyler Fay faced […]
GAME 1: ALABAMA 4, ARKANSAS 1 Jocelyn Briski has arrived. She came into Tuscaloosa two years ago with much fanfare as one of the nation’s top recruit, but had never lived up to the billing of a No. 1 pitcher on the Crimson Tide staff. Friday night, she impressed. And it wasn’t just the complete […]
Despite an early exit in the SEC Tournament for Alabama basketball, the Crimson Tide was still assigned a four seed in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament as they head to the Midwest Region. They will face Hofstra in the opening round on Friday. Win that game and they get the winner of Texas Tech-Akron on […]
It’s Selection Sunday, and while the Alabama Crimson Tide had a much shorter than anticipated stint in Nashville this week, Tide fans can – once again – rest easy knowing that Nate Oats’ squad will have its name called later today during the NCAA Tournament selection show. Not every school in the state can say […]
So much for the double bye. The 2nd seeded Alabama Crimson Tide didn’t start SEC Tournament play until Friday, earning a double bye. The Tides opponent was 15th seeded Ole Miss, who had lost 14 of their 15 games entering play in Nashville. The Rebels began SEC Tournament on Wednesday and were playing their third […]
In a few short hours, the 2-seed Crimson Tide will be tipping off against the 15-seed Rebels after Ole Miss surprising beat both Texas and Georgia while Alabama got to sit idle with a bye for the first two rounds. The two squads already played once in February, with Alabama drubbing the Rebels for a […]
Alabama improved to 24-0, surpassing the 22-0 start from 2013 for the fifth best start in program history, now just one win shy of tying the 25-0 start in 2007. But Arkansas is not going to make it easy for the Tide. TUESDAY: ALABAMA 8, SAMFORD 1 Bama had 11 hits highlighted by a pair […]