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Nate Oats says Alabama got better, but fell short of its Players Era Festival goal

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Nate Oats believes his Alabama basketball team got better in Las Vegas, but it came to the Players Era Festival to win it, and fell short of that goal.

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Nate Oats has high expectations for this Alabama basketball team. While many took a wait-and-see approach with this team, it was clear from the road win over St. John's in the second game of the season that the Crimson Tide had a higher ceiling than a lot of people believed.

After beating Illinois last week, Oats confidently proclaimed that he believed he had a team that was good enough to win the National Championship.