Alabama men’s head basketball coach Nate Oats made history over the weekend.
He guided the Crimson Tide to its first-ever Final Four appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
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Alabama advanced from the Elite Eight as champions of the West Region last week in a 89-82 victory over Clemson.
Oats and the program is closing in on an opportunity to win its first NCAA Tournament Championship. Alumni members of the football program expressed pure excitement on social media for the basketball team. Coach Oats and company embodied the “LANK” or Let All Naysayers Know mantra of the football team. Alabama had its football program win a Southeastern Conference Championship and make the College Football Playoff in 2023. Now, its basketball program is in the Final Four of the big dance.
Reactions from former Tide football players are below.
ION GIVE A PISS ABOUT NUN BUT THE TIDE!!!! ROLL MF TIDE!!!! pic.twitter.com/df3xvVbUXU
— Mark Ingram II (@markingramII) March 31, 2024
They laughed at us. They treated us like we fell from grace. They called us a football school. If we cared what they thought we wouldn’t be THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA.
*slow building motivational tone* #RollTide 🐘
— Alphonse Taylor (@SHANKK50) March 31, 2024
The Alabama Crimson Tide are going to the Final 4 for the first time ever 🙌🏼
— Mac Hereford (@Mac_Hereford) March 31, 2024
Final Four !!! #RMFT
— OJ Howard (@TheRealOjHoward) March 31, 2024
Roll tide
— Reggie Ragland (@reggieragland) March 31, 2024
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Stephen M. Smith is the senior writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can “like” him on Facebook or “follow” him on Twitter, via @CoachingMSmith.
