🏀 Next season's OOC season is the toughest I can remember. (UPDATE: Bama to play Arizona?)

[TerryP]

Back at the beginning of this month we had a thread here about the teams the basketball team would face next season for out of conference play. I've been thinking about this for a bit and even looked back over a few schedules to see if anything was comparable. So far, nothing.

Right now, here's who they are schedule to play (first three are neutral site games.)

Memphis
BYU
Minnesota (thought to be a a top 10 team next year.)
Texas
Rhode Island
Central Florida (home and home scheduled recently.)
Oklahoma.

#BuckleUp is really beginning to define itself.

 

[TerryP]

Earlier today I was thinking about this again and went back and looked at past OOC schedules. On average, the Tide is playing 12 per season.

My first thought was they'll likely add some teams like Arkansas State, et. al.

Now, I see this.

#BuckleUp is really beginning to define itself.

 

[Destiny's Child]

F--- me running. I hope the guys aren't demoralized by the time we get to conference play. Even with a good roster it will take time for them to gel and getting killed by Arizona, Minnesota and BYU might not help the old ego. We will be talented but very young and those will be three veteran and stud filled teams while the others aren't cream puffs.

Big basketball fan and I love the recruiting taking place with Avery so I hope there is a method to his madness with this.

 

[alagator]

Alabama’s men’s basketball team is set to play a home-and-home series with the Arizona Wildcats, BamaOnLine has learned. The series was first reported by The Tuscaloosa News.

In the two-year series, the Crimson Tide will travel to Tucson, Ariz., this season with the Wildcats making a return trip to Alabama in 2018-19. Arizona finished with a 32-5 (16-2 Pac-12) record a season ago and made it the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen.

The Wildcats currently boast the nation’s No. 3 signing class for the 2017 recruiting cycle, per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite. Alabama has the country’s No. 6-ranked class.

An Alabama-Arizona series would pit first-year UA athletic director Greg Byrne’s newest institution against his former employer. Byrne was the AD at Arizona from 2010-17.

Alabama’s non-conference slate will also feature neutral-site games against BYU, Minnesota and Memphis and home games against Texas, Rhode Island, Oklahoma and Central Florida.

Alabama hoops set to play home-and-home series with Arizona

 

[TerryP]

Big basketball fan and I love the recruiting taking place with Avery so I hope there is a method to his madness with this.

He's been pointing to year three since day one.

 

[TUSKtimes]

With Kentucky back at near #1 with their recruiting cycle, Coach is going for some serious national exposure.

 

[Max]

 

[#80]

I can't wait to see this team play.

 

[alabama mike]

The NCAA dance is the goal for this year and Bama has plenty of strength of schedule points to take that next step. CAJ has continued to build a stronger foundation each year.

 

[BamaFan334]

Excellent move by Coach Johnson. The exposure will be HUGE! If our incoming class can showcase some skills and we can look competitive, maybe even win, this will be a second shot in the arm to a program that is on the up and up. Arizona still recruits at a very high level, so being on TV against a team like them and Kentucky should etch our name into the minds of players all over the country, especially if our incoming class shows up like they have in high school, AAU, and in all-star games.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

¡Cajónes grándes!

¡Yo gústo!