No. 20/19 Alabama Hosts Longwood in Season Opener

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Year four of the Nate Oats era will officially tip off Monday night when the No. 20/19 Alabama Crimson Tide welcomes the Longwood Lancers to Coleman Coliseum. The contest is set to tipoff at 7:30 p.m. CT and will be on the SEC Network+.

The Broadcast

Monday’s game will be available on the SEC Network+ with Roger Hoover (play-by-play) and Richard Hendrix (analyst) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.

Notes You Need To Know

• During the non-conference slate Alabama will play four teams that are predicted to finish first in its conference, starting with Longwood, who was picked No. 1 in the Big South Preseason poll.
• The Crimson Tide enters the year ranked No. 20 in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 and No. 19 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Alabama begins the season ranked in the AP Preseason poll for the second straight year, checking in at No. 14 last year.
• Alabama welcomes the highest ranked recruiting class in program history, including McDonald’s High School All-Americans Jaden Bradley and Brandon Miller, along with four-start prospects Noah Clowney and Rylan Griffen.
• The Tide are one of seven schools in the country (Arizona, Creighton, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and UCLA) to have a player named on the Bob Cousy, Julius Erving and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watch lists this preseason.
• The 2022-23 Crimson Tide roster features four McDonald’s All-Americans. In addition to Bradley (2022) and Miller (2022), Nimari Burnett (2020) and Quinerly (2019) also earned the national honor. It is the most McDonald’s All-Americans on the same roster in program history.
• In addition to the four freshmen, Alabama also added transfers Mark Sears from Ohio, Dom Welch from St. Bonaventure and Nick Pringle from Dodge City CC, who was rated as the No. 1 JUCO power forward prospect in the country.
• After having the No. 1 strength of schedule in the nation a year ago, Alabama’s non-conference slate will be stacked once again as it features nine teams (out of 13 games) that played in last year’s NCAA Tournament.   In all, the Tide will face 10 teams that are either ranked or receiving votes in the preseason top-25 poll.

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