For all the poetic ways he could have described his team's impending clash with Auburn, Alabama coach Nate Oats kept it simple. "This could be the best game in all

Auburn’s Chad Baker-Mazara had an altercation with Alabama fans, and Tide coach Nate Oats had to tell his fans not to throw things on the floor at Coleman Coliseum. At the end of the day, rolling Toomer’s Corner capped the biggest regular-season basketball the state of Alabama has ever seen.

Who has the edge in the looming No. 1 vs. 2 college basketball showdown between Nate Oats Alabama and Bruce Pearl Auburn? ESPN gives its game odds.

Nate Oats and Alabama head home in rapid repair mode with another Top 25 SEC opponent up next and the Crimson Tide trying to avoid a three-game losing streak. Oats

Alabama basketball had just cut Auburn’s lead to three points at Coleman Coliseum, promoting the Tigers to take a timeout. Early on during the break, the PA announcer asked the Alabama faithful to refrain from throwing any objects onto the court,

Nate Oats doesn't have much time to process what went wrong with Alabama's loss to top-ranked Auburn.

When it’s all going right for Alabama and Mark Sears is splashing shots and Grant Nelson is getting under people’s skin and Nate Oats is shuffling in waves of explosive athletes and rim protectors off a bench that goes 10 deep,

Long before Nate Oats donned the plaid jacket and became a big star, there was a man who stalked the Alabama sideline named Wimp Sanderson, Tide Coach from 1980

Nate Oats doesn’t have much time to process what went wrong with Alabama’s loss to top-ranked Auburn. Not with what awaits the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide.

Nate Oats doesn't have much time to process what went wrong with Alabama's loss to top-ranked Auburn.Not with what awaits the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide.The los

Nate Oats doesn't have much time to process what went wrong with Alabama's loss to top-ranked Auburn. Not with what awaits the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide.