The Alabama Crimson Tide Women’s Basketball Team picks up Zaay Green out of the transfer portal. Green started her career at Tennessee where she spent two season.
Arkansas hires John Calipari to coach the Razorbacks, a day after stepping down from Kentucky.
Longtime Kentucky coach John Calipari was in negotiations to potentially leave and take the men’s basketball coaching job at Arkansas, multiple outlets reported late Sunday.
Saturday in Cleveland, Auburn’s Honest Scott-Grayson will represent the Tigers at the Women’s College All-Star Game.
In the 15 minutes before Alabama makes its first Final Four appearance in school history, there probably won’t be many warm and fuzzy moments in the locker room. Instead, there will be insults. Lots of them.
Alabama coach Nate Oats had become comfortable coaching at Romulus High School outside of Detroit. His desire to take any Division I college coaching job waned through the years before he got an opportunity on Bobby Hurley’s staff at Buffalo. Now, Oats has the Crimson Tide in the Final Four with two other coaches who have high school coaching roots.
Grant Nelson made himself a part of Alabama basketball history with his dominant performance against North Carolina. The senior forward though is hoping to be part of another important chapter — getting the Crimson Tide into the Final Four for the first time.
Mark Sears led the highest-scoring offense in the country with 30 points, and fourth-seeded Alabama had no problem making shots in its NCAA Tournament opener, racing past No. 13 seed Charleston 109-96.
Freshman Essence Cody had season bests with 20 points and 14 rebounds and No. 8 seed Alabama defeated No. 9 Florida State 82-74 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
John Poulakidas scored 28 points, Samson Aletan made a key block during a wild scramble in the final seconds, and 13th-seeded Yale beat No. 4 seed Auburn 78-76 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
