Mark Sears was benched over the weekend against LSU, but he bounced back nicely against Mississippi State.

Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats benched his star player Saturday night, Mark Sears. And you can bet he's got every ...

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But Alabama basketball head coach Nate Oats was still able to point to the results from legendary Alabama football head coach ...

Alabama basketball guard Mark Sears sat out the second half of the Crimson Tide's 80-73 win over LSU on Saturday, and while UA coach Nate Oats was mum on a specific reason, it was clear the star ...

The reason was simple, according to head coach Nate Oats, so much that he addressed it immediately after the game. "I'll just say this," Oats said in his opening statement, "we went with the guys ...

Sears' curious absence was explained postgame by Alabama coach Nate Oats as a tactical move, not a benching, but his rationale for the decision sounded much more like the latter than the former.

Alabama head basketball coach Nate Oats has his Crimson Tide (17-3) winning games, but they’re not doing so in impressive fashion. Against an overmatched LSU (12-7) Saturday, Alabama was tied ...

"We played the guys that we thought gave us the best chance to win in the second half," Alabama coach Nate Oats said. Sears, a preseason All-American averaging 19 points per game, went 0-for-5 ...

Alabama coach Nate Oats wasn't even a year old when Wooden retired in 1975, but some 50 years later, he took that lesson to heart in the most profound way imaginable on Saturday night. It's ...