Mark Sears leaves some big shoes to fill for Alabama basketball, but Nate Oats expects his team to be pretty good again in 2025-26.
Alabama basketball is coming off the most successful three-year run in program history. From winning the SEC regular season and tournament titles in 2022-23, to the program's first Final Four in 2024, to a second consecutive Elite Eight in 2025. Alabama has made the second weekend of the tournament three consecutive seasons, and advanced past the program's Sweet 16 class ceiling in back-to-back seasons.