🏀 🏀 2025-26 Bama Basketball Off-season News and Updates

[Bammerboy321]

 

[Bammerboy321]

Alabama's win over Saint Johns isn't the only thing picking up steam. Qayden Samuels is being predicted to commit to Alabama real soon. Would be a huge get.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Also, Alabama hosted Caleb Holt over the weekend. I think Oats and Preston Murphy were able to get back in time to visit with him.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Alabama's win over Saint Johns isn't the only thing picking up steam. Qayden Samuels is being predicted to commit to Alabama real soon. Would be a huge get.

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This guy is set to commit soon. It's between us and Georgetown.

 

[Bama Guy]

Great news. Sure hope we can get a big to help us out.

 

[Justneedme81]

 

[Bama Guy]

Well, I was hoping to get a big, but this is nuts.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I hate this and support it at the same time.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Wow

 

[bamafan9201]

Former Alabama center Charles Bediako suing NCAA for eligibility

Per recent court filings, former Alabama center Charles Bediako is attempting to come back to school after a stint in the G League.

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Former Alabama basketball center Charles Bediako is suing the NCAA for immediate eligibility. Matt Stahl of AL.com first reported the news.

Bediako played two seasons at Alabama from 2021-2023. After an SEC All-Defense team selection during his sophomore season in 2022-23, he declared for the NBA Draft with two years of eligibility remaining. He went undrafted in the 2023 and has played in the NBA G-League ever since, going from the Austin Spurs, to the Grand Rapids Gold, and now currently the Motor City Cruise.

“Official regular season games for the University of Alabama’s 2025-2026 men’s basketball season have already begun and the team has already started conference play within the Southeastern Conference,” Bediako’s attorneys wrote in his court filing, per Bama247. “Mr. Bediako will be irreparably harmed if he is not able to join the team immediately because of the lost development and opportunity to become integrated with his teammates and potentially participate in a postseason run.”

Bediako’s court filing also noted that he has enrolled in the spring semester at UA for classes.

Professional basketball players suing for eligibility in college basketball has become a recent trend. Recently Baylor forward James Nnaji, the 31st overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft that never appeared in an NBA game, was cleared by the NCAA after a court filing. Louisville guard London Johnson and BYU forward Adbullah Ahmed are examples of recent G League players cleared by the NCAA to play in college.

Earlier this month, Alabama head coach Nate Oats weighed in on professional players playing in college.

“If they’re eligible and somebody else is going to get them, I wouldn’t say that I’d be one of the guys that was necessarily for it to begin with,” Oats said on SiriusXM with ESPN’s Peter Burns. “Because I think it’s taking away opportunities from kids coming out of high school. I was a high school coach for 11 years. I wanted my kids to get opportunities when they left my program. This is taking opportunities away from those kids.

“But on a competitive level, if it’s allowable, and they’re going to be eligible to play and they’re the better players that you can get, then you probably have to go after them.”

This is the article..

 

[rick4bama]

I hate this and support it at the same time.

Didn't Baylor have a player to do the same thing?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I'm trying to think of some sacred item in the world of amateur college athletics, a tombstone that's been left untipped, a Bible left undesecrated, an altar left unadulterated....it's all gone.

In the next eight to ten years, you'll see, after private equity has their hooks in college football programs, that schools will terminate their football programs to extricate themselves from the clutches of those vermin. That's what it will come to. You'll see significant collusion with gambling syndicates to fix games, such that we've never seen. Real fire and brimstone stuff.

And, you'll see the continued reign of warlords bankrolling their pet teams for one- and two-year runs for championships. I'd hate to be a college football talking head right now, pretending that this feelgood story is on par with Rudy and Hoosiers. Their souls have to be draining. Plus, am I the only one who remembers Indiana basketball fans as Kentucky fans on steroids? I'm already tired of them. This is only slightly better than Miami winning.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Didn't Baylor have a player to do the same thing?

I think it was Baylor, but I don't know the particulars or similarities. I just recall the headlines on it. Oats was asked about all this stuff very recently... I'd bet looking back, it was the al.com reporter that asked, knowing that this was coming. It appears they broke the story.