re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

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Injury update on Alabama basketball's Charles Bediako, Nimari Burnett, Jahvon Quinerly

Alabama basketball could be without starting center Charles Bediako to start the season. He is dealing with an injury.

He is not practicing as of Oct. 27. Bediako also did not participate in the scrimmage against TCU earlier in October.

"Hopefully he can start to get in some drills next week," Alabama coach Nate Oats said. "We'll see how he responds to that to know whether he'll be able to play in game 1."

The Crimson Tide is set to face Southern Illinois in an exhibition game at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Foster Auditorium. The game is open only to students. Then the Crimson Tide will open its season on Friday, Nov. 7 against Longwood at Coleman Coliseum.

Nimari Burnett, who also missed the TCU scrimmage and all of last season with an injury, has been practicing.

"Limited," Oats said. "Think he will be on a minutes restriction Saturday."

Point guard Jahvon Quinerly won't be participating, but he seems to be ahead of schedule after sustaining an ACL injury in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in San Diego this past spring.

Oats said Quinerly has been "able to do some stuff in practice" but isn't completely where he needs to be yet. Oats noted that Quinerly is working hard to get back.

"I think if we can keep everybody else injury-free, we should have everybody available maybe earlier than what we thought," Oats said. "Maybe early December. Somewhere in there. The plan is to have Charles available that first or second week, depending on how he does next week in practice."

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