Alabama Men’s Basketball Hosts Arkansas State Monday Night

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama men's basketball team will host Arkansas State Monday night at Coleman Coliseum. Making the trip to Tuscaloosa will be the Red Wolves' first-year head coach Bryan Hodgson, who spent the previous four years in Tuscaloosa.

The Crimson Tide continue to have one of the best offenses in the country, as the tide's offenses ranks No. 1 in the country according to KenPom. Alabama has scored 664 points (94.9 ppg), which ranks No. 2 in the country and the most in program history through the first seven games of the season, surpassing the 2000-01 team (644 points).

The Broadcast

Monday's game is set for an 7 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on the SEC Network with Roy Philpott (play-by-play) and Joe Kleine (analyst) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play), Bryan Passink (analyst) and Roger Hoover (sideline) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.

Notes You Need To Know

Head coach Nate Oats and Arkansas State head coach Bryan Hodgson spent the previous eight seasons together (Four seasons at Buffalo and four seasons at Alabama) where Hodgson was an assistant coach under Oats
Alabama's backcourt is reaching career milestones as Aaron Estrada is six points away from 1,600 career points and Mark Sears is one point away from 1,500 career points
UA is making 23.1 free throws per contest, which ranks No. 2 in the country
The Crimson Tide owns the No. 1 ranked offense, according to KenPom
The Tide is averaging 94.9 points per game, which ranks No. 2 in the country
UA has an effective field goal percentage of 59.3, which ranks No. 8 in the country
Mark Sears ranks No. 1 in the SEC in scoring (20.7 ppg), No. 4 in field goal percentage (58.9) and No. 4 in assists (4.1 apg)
Alabama is the only SEC schools that has two players averaging 17 points or more per game (Sears 20.7 ppg and Estrada 17.1 ppg)
Senior transfer Grant Nelson was named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List, which annually recognizes the top player in college basketball and the Karl Malone Award Watch List for the top power forward in Division I
Alabama's trio of Estrada, Nelson and Sears have each scored over 1,000 points throughout their college career, which is tied for the third-most in the country (St. John's & TCU with four each)

About Arkansas State

Head Coach Bryan Hodgson was hired after the 2022-23 season and is the program's 17th all-time head coach. He most recently spent the previous four seasons at Alabama under Nate Oats after following Oats from Buffalo.
Arkansas State has been on the road for nine of its 12 non-conference outings
Last season, the Red Wolves began the year with a combined 424 career games played among all players. This season, that number has nearly doubled with the newcomers, totaling 791 career games played across 16 players.
The Red Wolves are one of just two Sun Belt Conference teams not playing a non-Division-I opponent this season (Georgia Southern being the other), and one of those squads facing more than three Power-5 foes
A-State is not playing a non-Division-I opponent for the first time since the 1999-2000 season.
Fifth-year senior Caleb Fields is up to 497 assists for his career, which ranks third in program history. He is 48 assists shy of matching Carl Archer (1986-89) for second all-time with 544.
Sophomore guard Terrance Ford Jr. and newcomer Freddy Hicks received Preseason All-Sun Belt Third Team honors.

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