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Posted on 9/19/21 at 5:49 pm to BigBird09
Posted on 9/19/21 at 5:49 pm to BigBird09
Mo Williams and Andrew Steele are following the Tide's lead in scheduling at Alabama State. Check out their early slate:
9/10 @ Vandy
9/16 @ Iowa St
9/18 @ Iowa
12/1 @ Dayton
12/11 @ Pepperdine
12/15 @ UCLA
12/21 @ Memphis
12/28 @ Texas Tech
Good luck Hornets!
9/10 @ Vandy
9/16 @ Iowa St
9/18 @ Iowa
12/1 @ Dayton
12/11 @ Pepperdine
12/15 @ UCLA
12/21 @ Memphis
12/28 @ Texas Tech
Good luck Hornets!
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Posted on 9/19/21 at 6:58 pm to McGregor
They gotta help foot the bill for their AD 
I think Steele went to Tennessee Tech this off-season though.
I think Steele went to Tennessee Tech this off-season though.
Posted on 9/19/21 at 9:11 pm to mistaken4193
quote:Leave me alone
Chad has to start it...NOT BAMAFAN!! He is a Jinx.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 9:50 am to Bamafan18
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2022 Top-150 prospect Malique Ewin will announce his college decision on Oct. 12, he tells @On3Recruits.
Holds offers from Alabama, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, among others.
Ole Miss looks like the favorite. Not sure we are still actively recruiting him or not.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 9:52 am to Chadaristic
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Virginia Tech’s Mike Young will be in tomorrow for four-star senior Chandler Jackson, he told @Stockrisers. Florida State will send in an assistant on Wednesday.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:24 am to Chadaristic
Brandon miller has postponed his announcement…
Posted on 9/20/21 at 11:53 am to TrojanTide
from cbs.sports LINK
College basketball starts in 50 days, so here are 50 things to know about the 2021-22 season
49. The Champions Classic doubleheader offers the only appealing inter-conference game between power-league teams on opening night. But for the counterculture diehards (who are reading college hoops content like this in the middle of September; I see you and I love you), here are five other tasty opening-night games worth following.
Louisiana Tech at Alabama: The Crimson Tide are coming off their best regular season, statistically, in school history. They'll open up against a Tech team that could win Conference USA.
6. Down in the SEC you'll have a lot of buzz about the return of Kentucky, a team that I'll remind you went 9-16 last season, one of the worst campaigns (we're talking bottom five) in the 118-year history of the program. I can't go with UK to win the SEC, but the Cats will easily be a single-digit seed. Instead, give me Alabama. A probable preseason top 10 team that brings back enough while also infusing some tasty talent. Auburn is your dark horse.
College basketball starts in 50 days, so here are 50 things to know about the 2021-22 season
49. The Champions Classic doubleheader offers the only appealing inter-conference game between power-league teams on opening night. But for the counterculture diehards (who are reading college hoops content like this in the middle of September; I see you and I love you), here are five other tasty opening-night games worth following.
Louisiana Tech at Alabama: The Crimson Tide are coming off their best regular season, statistically, in school history. They'll open up against a Tech team that could win Conference USA.
6. Down in the SEC you'll have a lot of buzz about the return of Kentucky, a team that I'll remind you went 9-16 last season, one of the worst campaigns (we're talking bottom five) in the 118-year history of the program. I can't go with UK to win the SEC, but the Cats will easily be a single-digit seed. Instead, give me Alabama. A probable preseason top 10 team that brings back enough while also infusing some tasty talent. Auburn is your dark horse.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 12:53 pm to TrojanTide
FWIW, the "connected posters" on Arkansas 247 all seem to believe that Smith is committing to Arkansas on Wednesday.
I'm not buying in till I see it happen.
I'm not buying in till I see it happen.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 12:59 pm to rockiee
I would believe it. Don't like that Miller delayed his announcement either.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 1:15 pm to Gary Busey
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Auburn’s Bruce Pearl and NC State’s staff will be in today for senior guard Rylan Griffen, a source told @Stockrisers. The Tigers had full staff in last Wednesday and Pearl is in once again.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 1:23 pm to Chadaristic
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Nate Oats explains how Nimari Burnett got hurt, what it means
Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats said Monday that the season-ending injury suffered earlier this month by transfer guard Nimari Burnett happened during a warm-up drill early in a practice.
“Like, a 3-on-0, kind of breakdown drill we’re you’re not even going full speed,” Oats said. “It’s just one of those freak injuries that you probably couldn’t have avoided. Unfortunate for him, unfortunate for us. I thought he was gonna be a huge part of what we were doing this year.”
Oats, who spoke Monday to the Monday Morning Quarterback Club in Birmingham, said Burnett had been “playing great” before his injury in fall workouts.
“He had been shooting 60 percent from three,” he said. “He had just had his best workout, by far, the one before he went down. It’s disappointing.”
A former McDonald’s high school all-American and a transfer from Texas Tech, Burnett was expected to be part of a backcourt that will still include Jahvon Quinerly, returning leading scorer Jaden Shackelford, incoming five-star freshman JD Davison and senior Keon Ellis.
Burnett’s injury came after forward James Rojas tore his ACL in June. He still is expected to play this season, returning at some point during conference play.
“Hopefully still gonna get back at some point during SEC play,” Oats said Monday of Rojas. “His happened during the summer -- it happened a lot earlier, so he’s got some time to recover and still actually play some games.”
Oats added that second-year forward Alex Tchikou is not yet fully cleared from his Achilles injury suffered last year.
“Our depth is gonna be affected quite a bit,” Oats said. “We’re down to 10 scholarship guys cleared to play. Our depth is not what quite what we’d like it to have been. We’ve just got to avoid any further injuries. I think we’ll still be all right.”
Burnett and Rojas’ injuries this offseason came after Tchikou missed all of last season, and both Rojas and Juwan Gary missed the entire 2019-20 season with offseason knee injuries.
“It’s part of sports,” Oats said. “Going into Year 3, watching Alabama football, you see every year a key piece of theirs goes down. That’s why you’ve got to have depth. That’s why you’ve got to coach what maybe would’ve been your end-of-the-bench guys, because now all the sudden they’re rotation.
“It’s part of sports, it’s part of coaching. You’ve got to deal with it. It’s disappointing. It would be nice to have a season where we had no season-ending injuries and we had a full 13 guys to play. But it’s rare that that happens, to be honest with you.”
Oats said Alabama “has the best doctors” and Burnett’s recovery is “already going well.”
“Quinerly had to sit out our first year here,” Oats noted. “He came back here and had an unbelievable year our second year. Hopefully the same thing happens with Nimari where he sits out Year 1 with us and now he’s able to fully recover.”
Alabama will hold a closed scrimmage against Georgia Tech on Oct. 16 in Birmingham before a charity exhibition in Tuscaloosa against Louisiana on Oct. 24. Its first game is against Louisiana Tech on Nov. 9 in Coleman Coliseum.
“I think we showed that we showed that we’re capable of being one of the better teams in the SEC. Shoot, one of the better teams in the country, really,” Oats said Monday. “It didn’t quite end the way we wanted it to. We had an unbelievable year.
“The only high-major team to win the regular season and conference tournament, both. To lose in an overtime game when you shoot 11-of-25 at the free-throw line, knowing you should have won that game, it leaves you ready to play -- and you got a long way until you play another game. I can’t wait until we play.”
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This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 1:26 pm to Chadaristic
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Nate Oats said Nimari Burnett suffered his season-ending knee injury during a warmup drill early in practice.
"It’s just one of those freak injuries that you probably couldn’t have avoided.”
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More Oats on Burnett: "He had been shooting 60 percent from three. He had just had his best workout, by far, the one before he went down. It’s disappointing.”
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Nate Oats update on James Rojas: "Hopefully still gonna get back at some point during SEC play.”
Alex Tchikou is also not yet fully cleared, so Alabama is down to 10 healthy scholarship players.
"We’ve just got to avoid any further injuries. I think we’ll still be all right.”
Posted on 9/20/21 at 2:38 pm to Chadaristic
That doesn’t sound encouraging...I can’t lie.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 3:07 pm to mistaken4193
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Top-100 targets only for Bama in the backcourt. The latest in my big board notebook (On3+): LINK
Anybody with On3+ want to hook us up and let us know what's in here?
Posted on 9/20/21 at 5:05 pm to Chadaristic
Posted on 9/20/21 at 5:20 pm to rockiee
That must mean Arkansas is the choice, i'm guessing.
Posted on 9/20/21 at 6:08 pm to Chadaristic
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2022 5 star Nick Smith (@ntsmith1402) is now up to four futurecast predictions for @RazorbackMBB via @Rivals.
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 6:12 pm to Chadaristic
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Anybody with On3+ want to hook us up and let us know what's in here?
Alabama is closing in on several top-100 targets to fill the backcourt for the 2022 recruiting class. The Alabama hoops big board notebook breaks down the situation as the Tide nears the early signing period.
Elite Point Guard or Bust
Jaden Bradley – 6’3?, 185
Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy – Natl. No. 20
Alabama signed the No. 1 point guard in the nation in the 2021 class in J.D. Davison and still have talent on the roster to spare. Five-star Jaden Bradley is another high-profile point guard the Tide could add to an already very talented group. The Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy standout took an official visit to Tuscaloosa on June 11 before trips to Arizona, FSU and, most recently, Gonzaga.
As of August 26, just five programs remain in the mix: Alabama, Arizona, Gonzaga, FSU and Kentucky. Kentucky has a 2021 point guard committed (Skyy Clark), but the other contenders do not.
If J.D. Davison or Jahvon Quinerly go pro after the 2021-22 season, Bradley could come in a start for Nate Oats’ squad in year one. Whether the North Carolina native sees Alabama’s two guard-led offense as the best fit is the question. There’s no decision date on the calendar yet for Bradley.
Rylan Griffin: Texas sharp-shooter
Rylan Griffen – 6’5?, 180
Richardson (Texas) High – Natl. No. 97
Nate Oats could always use more scoring talent and Richardson (Texas) High four-star Rylan Griffen fits the bill. The 6-foot-5, double-digit scorer and district MVP has discussed a visit to Alabama and the Tide checked in on him when the contact period began.
Kansas State and Oklahoma State both received official visits from Griffen this summer. No decision coming yet but the four-star did release a top 10 of Alabama, Georgia, OU, Auburn, Kansas State, Cal, NC State, Oklahoma State, Arizona State and Kansas on Sept. 8.
Alabama’s standing with trio of combo guards
Nick Smith Jr. – 6’4?, 185
North Little Rock (Ark.) High – Natl. No. 31
Bama is trying to pull one away from one of the top SEC competitors with Arkansas four-star Nick Smith Jr. The new North Little Rock senior combo guard, formerly of Sylvan Hills, included Alabama in his top four in mid-September. Also making the list: Arkansas, UA-Pine Bluff and Auburn.
Smith took his first official visit as a senior to Alabama but it’s his most recent visit to Arkansas that has generated buzz lately. The four-star also visited Auburn in June, where he’s been made a major priority. No decision date has been announced yet, so the fight isn’t over.
Rodney Rice – 6’4?, 185
Potomac (Md.) De Matha Catholic – Natl. No. 82
Potomac (Md.) De Matha Catholic four-star Rodney Rice included Alabama in his top six on June 26. However, with just two official visits taken and a decision coming (potentially by the end of September), it looks like the Tide is out as a major player. Rice has visited Louisville on multiple occasions and took an official visit to Virginia Tech.
Chandler Jackson – 6’4?, 205
Memphis (Tenn.) Christian Brothers – Natl. No. 94
Memphis (Tenn.) Christian Brothers star Chandler Jackson has Memphis, Ole Miss, Mizzou and more coming on strong but also put Alabama in his top 10. The coaching staff went to check up on him in Tennessee last week.
Jackson’s top 10 are Alabama, Virginia Tech, Florida State, Kansas, Memphis, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina State, Texas and Vanderbilt. He’s been to Ole Miss, Missouri and Auburn so far and has plans to visit Virginia Tech, Kansas and Alabama before signing.
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 6:18 pm to Chadaristic
A lot of momentum seems to have gone up in smoke over the last two weeks or so
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 9/20/21 at 6:21 pm to Bryant91092
That's why I was saying the other day that scheduling so many early OVs for high priority targets seems like a big miscalculation.
If you're going to do that you need to seal the deal on the visit.
If you're going to do that you need to seal the deal on the visit.
This post was edited on 9/20/21 at 6:22 pm
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