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Alabama Basketball Announces Charity Exhibition Game Against Southern Illinois

Proceeds from the game between the Crimson Tide and Salukis will go to the Community Service Programs of West Alabama.

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For the third time in four years, the Alabama men's basketball team will in an exhibition game for charity prior to the start of its regular season.

Friday morning, it announced that the Crimson Tide will host Southern Illinois on Oct. 29 at Foster Auditorium. Tip-off is slated for 2 p.m. CT.

Proceeds from the game between the Crimson Tide and Salukis will go to the Community Service Programs of West Alabama

Alabama is set to host Longwood on Nov. 7, and Liberty on Nov. 11. Both games will be played a Coleman Coliseum.

The exhibition takes advantage of an NCAA rule allowing teams to use one of its two official preseason games against a Division I opponent for the purposes of raising funds for a catastrophic event, COVID-19 relief efforts, and/or social justice initiatives.

 

[TerryP]

Friday morning, it announced that the Crimson Tide will host Southern Illinois on Oct. 29 at Foster Auditorium.

That'll make for a fun environment.

If you're immediately curious, it is a bye week for the football team.