No. 14/13 Alabama Welcomes College GameDay and No. 4/4 Tennessee to Coleman Coliseum Saturday

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – For the third time in four games, the No. 14/13 Alabama men's basketball team will face an AP Top-25 opponent, hosting No. 4/4 Tennessee, Saturday at 7 p.m. CT inside Coleman Coliseum. Prior to the game, the Crimson Tide will welcome College GameDay, which is set to air at 11 a.m. CT on ABC. Saturday's game will be a "Whiteout" as fans are encouraged to wear white.

The Tide enters the contest tied for first place in the Southeastern Conference with the Volunteers with an 11-3 record. The matchup features the top two scorers in the SEC, with Dalton Knecht leading the conference in scoring (20.8 ppg) and Mark Sears at No. 2 (20.6) in the league.

For more information regarding College GameDay, a timeline of Saturday's event can be found here.

The Broadcast

Saturday's game is set for a 7 p.m. CT tipoff and will be aired on ESPN with Dan Shulman (play-by-play), Jay Bilas (analyst) and Jess Sims (sideline) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) 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 61 SEC contests
The Crimson Tide have earned back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 2012-2013
Alabama is 17-21 against AP Top-25 opponents under Nate Oats and 5-6 against Top-5 opponents
Alabama has scored 100 points in nine games this season which is the most by an SEC school since Kentucky's 1995-96 team (nine games)
UA has scored 80 points vs. conference opponents in nine straight games, tied for the second-longest streak in the SEC in the last 30 seasons (Kentucky had 10 in 1995-96 and 9 in 2016-17)
Alabama has scored 90 points in five straight SEC games, the longest streak in program history
Per KenPom, Alabama has the highest offensive efficiency rating (128.1), the second highest rating since 1999 (Wisconsin, 129)
Mark Sears is the only Division I player that has 575 points, 120 rebounds, 115 assists and 65 three-pointers this season
Sears is one of five players in Division I and the only guard that is scoring 20 points per game while averaging 50 percent from the field
Sears has recorded 20-points or more in 18 games this season and is the most since James "Hollywood" Robinson in 1992-93 (18 games)
Sears ranks No. 2 in the SEC in scoring (20.6 ppg), No. 5 in field goal percentage (51.1) and No. 8 in assists (4.1 apg)
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 (1,931 points) and Estrada (1,845 points)

About Tennessee

Tennessee is 25-20 against AP Top-25 opponents under head coach Rick Barnes
Over the past four seasons (2020-24), Tennessee leads all SEC teams with 19 AP Top-25 wins
The Volunteers rank No. 3 in the country in field goal percentage defense (38.3)
Four times this year, Dalton Knecht has scored 35-plus points, as he leads the SEC (20.8 ppg) and ranks No. 17 in Division I in scoring
Knecht is the only Division I player this season to record four 35-point performances and the first Power Six player to do so in a full campaign since 2019-20 when Arkansas' Mason Jones (five) and Marquette's Markus Howard (eight) did so.
Zakai Zeigler leads the SEC and ranks No. 22 in Division I in assists per game (5.9 apg)
UT is a season-best fourth in the AP Poll. This is the sixth time the Vols have hit that mark in a season, including the third in the past six years under Rick Barnes.
Santiago Vescovi became the second Volunteer to record 200 career steals
Tennessee has scored 80-plus points in nine of their last 11 wins. They previously scored 80-plus points in one their last 11 wins last year

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