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Projecting top 25 college basketball programs of next 25 years: Teams set for most long-term success
Here are the teams prepared to handle the myriad of changes in college athletics in the next 25 seasons
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4. Alabama
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Let this ranking cement it into the ether. So long as Nate Oats — with a Final Four under his belt and two SEC titles to boot – continues to lead the Crimson Tide, they will continue to rank among the best in basketball. Oats has NBA-ified Alabama with a 3s-and-layups attack on offense that has been devastatingly effective and lifted the program into a juggernaut. The former high school math teacher has surrounded himself with analytics-minded staffers who have been ahead of the college curve and the results so far in Tuscaloosa have been nothing short of spectacular. This program is doing things it'd never done before and that will continue.
