No. 15/15 Men's Basketball Unveils New Uniforms Saturday Against Texas A&M

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 15/15 Alabama men's basketball team hosts Texas A&M, Saturday at 11 a.m. CT inside Coleman Coliseum. The team will debut its new "Crimson Tide" uniforms as Alabama welcomes its 2003-04 team that made a run to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.

The matchup features two players in the running for the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in Alabama's Mark Sears and Texas A&M's Wade Taylor IV as Sears leads the conference at 20.5 ppg and Taylor IV is third at 19.8 ppg. This is the first meeting of the two squads since the 2023 SEC Championship game (No. 4 Alabama defeated No. 18 Texas A&M 82-63).

The Broadcast

Saturday's game will be aired on ESPN with Tom Hart (play-by-play) and Jimmy Dykes (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

Since head coach Nate Oats arrived at Alabama in 2019-20, the Crimson Tide has won a league-best 58 SEC contests
Alabama has won 14-straight SEC home games at Coleman Coliseum, the longest winning streak since 1988
Alabama has scored 100 points in nine SEC games during Oats' tenure. The rest of the league has a combined 10 100-point games during that span.
Over the last five seasons, the Crimson Tide has posted nine games converting 18 or more three-pointers in a game, the rest of the SEC has a combined four games during that span
According to KenPom, Mark Sears ranks No. 6 in the National Player of the Year standings
Sears is one of four Division I players and the only Power 5 player that has 465 points, 95 rebounds, 90 assists and 50 three-pointers this season
Sears has recorded 20-points or more in 15 games this season, surpassing Brandon Miller (2022-23) and Retin Obasohan's (2015-16) 14 games and is the most since Collin Sexton in 2017-18 (16 games)
Sears ranks No. 1 in the SEC in scoring (20.5 ppg), No. 6 in field goal percentage (51.3) and No. 8 in assists (3.9 apg)
Sears (21.8 ppg) is one of four SEC players (Tennessee's Dalton Knecht, 26.4 ppg, Texas A&M's Wade Taylor IV, 22.5 ppg and Kentucky's Antonio Reeves, 20.1 ppg) that is averaging over 20 points per game during conference play
The Crimson Tide owns the No. 1 scoring offense in the country (90.3 ppg) and the No. 1-ranked offense, according to KenPom
Alabama is one of three schools (Purdue and Wright State) in the country that has two players on its current roster that has scored at least 1,700 points throughout their career in Sears (1,845 points) and Estrada (1,783 points)

About Texas A&M

Wade Taylor IV is scoring 19.8 ppg during the season, the third-most in the SEC and 22.5 ppg during SEC play, which ranks No. 2
Taylor IV (476 points) and Tyrece Radford (287 points) have accounted for 42.9 percent of the Aggies scoring this season (1,780 points)
Against AP Top-25 opponents this season Taylor is averaging 26.6 points per contest
Taylor is the only DI player with three 30-point games vs ranked teams in 2023-24
Andersson Garcia leads the SEC in rebounding (9.1 rpg) and ranks No. 42 in Division I
Garcia is grabbing 4.2 offensive rebounds per game, which ranks No. 2 in the country
Garcia has totaled 39 rebounds the last three games (13.0 rpg)
The Aggies have connected on better than 40.0 percent from the field in four straight games for the first time this season
Texas A&M leads the SEC in fewest turnovers for the overall season (9.7) and SEC play (9.5)
Texas A&M has played in 11 games this season that have been tied or a one-possession game after the under 4:00 media timeout

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