re: UA Basketball Recruiting

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Alabama, Indiana, Miami, West Virginia, and Xavier make up the final five for Top100 small forward Jalen Bridges, the Fairmont (W.V.) product tweeted on Saturday.

The 6-foot-7, 180-pounder recently set an official visit to Tuscaloosa for the weekend of Sept. 7, according to 247Sports' Brian Snow, who had a chance to scout the elite talent this summer.

Other visits on the calendar include Xavier (Sept. 14) and Miami (Sept. 20) following the weekend stay in T-Town.

"At around 6-foot-8 with excellent length and an improving ability to handle the basketball, Bridges had a very impressive showing on the adidas Gauntlet with Wildcats Select," wrote Snow. "During the adidas Summer Championships and the adidas Gauntlet Finale, Bridges was a force scoring and rebounding. At first in July he was struggling some with his shot, which is usually his bread and butter as a player, but that picked up in a big way in the middle of July with Wildcats Select, and then again at the NCAA Regional Camp in Champaign, Illinois."

The Crimson Tide has yet to add a 2020 commitment in the Nate Oats era, but it's not for lack of buzz on the recruiting trail. The Tide was among the finalists for the nation's top-rated point guard Daishen Nix prior to his commitment to UCLA. Alabama will also host five-star combo guard Nimari Burnett at the end of September.

Bridges is rated the No. 18 small forward and the No. 75 overall player in the country, per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite Rankings.

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