Final Four

Alabama is the favorite to win the Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship, led by preseason player of the year Mark Sears. The Crimson Tide, ranked second in the AP’s preseason Top 25, are coming off the program’s first Final Four run.

The University of Alabama has announced the men's basketball team will host its 2024 NCAA Final Four banner reveal on Friday, Oct. 11 with the event beginning at 8:30 p.m. Public tickets are currently on sale for $10.

The Rocket City Classic, presented by Akima, returns in 2024 with a matchup at the VBC Propst Arena for the second straight year. Alabama will face Memphis on Oct. 28 in an NCAA-approved exhibition game benefitting the Huntsville Hospital Foundation.

Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats reassured fans in Tuscaloosa over rumors he might leave the Crimson Tide for Kentucky.

Alabama got the kind of game it wanted in its first Final Four appearance. It still wasn’t enough to beat UConn. The Tide fell 86-72 against the top-seeded Huskies, unable to contain a team down the stretch that’s steamrolled through this NCAA Tournament and is trying to become the first back-to-back champion since 2007.

In the 15 minutes before Alabama makes its first Final Four appearance in school history on Saturday, there probably won't be many warm and fuzzy moments in the locker room.

Defending national champion UConn finally touched down in Arizona for the Final Four at 3:15 a.m. Thursday after a long delay and a red-eye flight. Published reports on the Alabama/UConn game are making the case in the Tide versus Huskies.

Alabama guard Aaron Estrada is ending his five-year, four-school college basketball odyssey with a trip to the Final Four. The 6-foot-4 guard started his career at Saint Peter's before transferring to Oregon, Hofstra and finally Alabama.

Alabama coach Nate Oats has deep connections to the man he will be coaching against in the Final Four. Oats and UConn's Dan Hurley have known each other for more than a decade, going back to the days when Oats was a high school coach in the Detroit area.

Nate Oats admits it: He whiffed on Mark Sears out of high school.It's OK, though. So did every other major college coach.It is why Alabama's undersized, high-scoring point guard wound up at Ohio University before finally getting a chance to return to his home state.