Alabama basketball squares off against former assistant coach Bryan Hodgson coming to Coleman Coliseum.
Hodgson coached under Nate Oats for eight years and Oats’s first four seasons in Tuscaloosa before taking the head coaching job for Arkansas State. This is the fourth meeting for the two teams, with Alabama winning the first three matchups and taking the most recent one last season, winning 89-65.
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Teams: Alabama (1-0) and Arkansas State (1-0)
Tip time: 8 p.m. EST
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What to know about Arkansas State:
The Red Wolves are coming off a 80-75 overtime victory over Akron in the MAC-Sun Belt challenge, where had three guys score in double figures. In year one under Hodgson, finishing 20-17 and finishing 4th in conference play with a 11-7 record.
The team was led by Arkansas transfer Joseph Pinion on Monday, who put up 16 points. The Red Wolves are a team filled with four transfers from the Power 5 level. The team plays almost identically to the Alabama “blue collar” brand shooting around 30 threes a game with a fast tempo.
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Alabama is coming off the big win Monday, where it was able to get tons of guys playing time to run many different lineup combinations. A big spotlight so far was all the Freshman looked good in their first game in the Alabama uniform. The Tide will look to continue to build on these mid major contests before the gauntlet part of the non-con is looming around the corner.
“I would anticipate on us mixing guys in and out for a while at least,” said Oats when asked about having.a definite starting five.
Alabama looks to increase the minutes for guys like Grant Nelson, Latrell Wrightsell, and Aden Sherell.