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Crimson Tide Set to Host Florida

Source: Harvey Updyke declines plea

Alabama 69, LSU 53

Bulldogs’ winning streak halted at five, lose SEC opener to Crimson Tide 74-59

Alabama coach Anthony Grant's pre-Georgia Tech press conference

LSU, Alabama battling for recruits

Men's Basketball Returns Home to Face Detroit

ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE DOWN DETROIT TITANS 62-54 - NCAA BASKETBALL

Alabama basketball: Crimson Tide's 24-game home winning streak ends on Georgetown's 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left

Alabama Basketball: Crimson Tide's Top 3 Recruiting Targets for 2012

Alabama Crimson Tide Vs. Purdue Boilermakers 11/20/11: Dan’s Free College Basketball Pick Against the Spread

Men's Basketball to Host Oakland Monday Evening

No. 19 Alabama tops Ala-Huntsville in exhibition

Crimson Tide Finish Preparations for Trip to The Swamp

Practice Report: September 26

Notebook: Saban, players see improved Hogs defense

Tennessee Vols hire Alabama's Dave Hart as AD

Tide's 2011-12 basketball schedule includes home game against VCU

USA Men Fall 76-74 To Lithuania In Quarterfinals

Tide's JaMychal Green scores 7 points as USA wins exhibition game

UA still awaiting word on Carter

Simmons, Hutchen set to team up again at Alabama

Oxford’s Stephens commits to Alabama

Alabama's Steele to receive medical hardship

Tide rolls through airwaves: Radio broadcasts reach more people than ever

Ex-Tide guard Senario Hillman invited to pre-draft workout with Utah Jazz

An RTB Father's Day Special Feature

Alabama basketball: Crimson Tide forward JaMychal Green, Tony Mitchell invited to try out for World University Games

Saban: Football Season Will Provide "Escape"

Alabama offensive line has chip on its shoulder in 2011 (video)

Jimmy White: Today will bring good basketball

Alabama 30, New Mexico 26, halftime

Today's Coastal Carolina-Alabama game breakdown

Crimson Tide report: Strategy and personnel

Alabama Football: Will Robby Green Escape Saban's Dog House and Return Strong?

Tennessee Vols run into Alabama's defensive wall

Tide backup is a leader

Alabama to host press conference for safety Mark Barron

Analysis: Will Crimson Tide be a contender or pretender in the SEC?

Alabama routs Pepperdine 83-60

College basketball: Charvez Davis powers Bama to win over Lipscomb

2nd Article:OSU beats Alabama 68-60 in All-College Classic

Green reinstated by Alabama

Alabama Crimson Tide football awards from team banquet

Second-ranked Auburn thrives on living dangerously

Behind 27 points from Jeremy Hazell, Seton Hall comes back to beat Alabama, 83-78 in Paradise Jam

Tide, Trojans square off on hardwood

Grant and Green Meet With the Media

Tide picked to finish a close third in SEC West

Former Heat summer prospect Torrance collapses at gym

Alabama Crimson Tide's 2010 A-Day Game: Observations

Tide's Torrance competing in invitational

Alabama Getting Inside

A textbook case

APR is the biggest game coaches play

Yamene Coleman won't be back with Alabama's hoops team next season

Tide, Tigers get gold

Alonzo Gee impresses at Portsmouth Invitational Tournament

Is Ronald Steele beginning the push toward the NBA Draft?

Grant breaking new ground at Alabama

Now starts the real work for the future of Alabama's basketball program

Anthony Brock arrives after grandmother's funeral, wins game for Alabama at the buzzer

Energized Tide Looks To Make Noise at Season's End

Bulldogs cast a wary eye toward the Crimson Tide

Can UA hoops pull it together for one final run?

LSU beats Alabama 76-62

Alabama Tops Dawgs 75-70

Embattled coach Gottfried resigns

ALABAMA BASKETBALL: Torrance's torrid shooting could lift Tide

Alabama's Gottfried sees improvement: Tide coach says team has gotten better as it eyes SEC?opener

Mocs End Road Trip At Alabama

Alabama defeats Louisiana-Lafayette 61-44

Crimson Tide gets set to face Ducks in Maui

White hoop scrimmage Sunday

Media pick Tide to win SEC West in men's basketball

Bama's Hoops Schedule Is One of Toughest Yet

Anyone interested in an Alabama basketball schedule?

Tide is riding on Steele and Green

Tide Alabama hoops signee Tony Mitchell enrolls...

Tide Will Host Basketball Coaches' Clinic

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Tide brings popular Pettway back as coach

SEC, ACC reload for winter

NBA draft sends Tide's Hendrix out to Oakland

Guards audition for Bobcats' 2nd-round pick

Wilson named a preseason candidate for Unitas Award

Steele still waiting on NBA draft

Former Bama player headed to Miami Dade

Alabama signs JUCO point guard

Tide's Riley Scores 15 in 1st Game at Portsmouth Invitational

Steele says he's physically fit, ready for the NBA

Tide's Mykal Riley Will Participate in this Week's Portsmouth Invitational

Crimson Tide Holds First Scrimmage of Spring Practice

UCLA knows it's in for a battle with Texas A&M

Bama Beats Florida in Round 1 SEC Tourney...

Tide Hoops Host No. 16 Vanderbilt at 1 p.m. Saturday in Final Home Game

ALABAMA BASKETBALL: Hendrix looking for strong finish

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Weary, depleted Tigers host Tide

Steele Resolve

ALABAMA BASKETBALL: Tide's success hinges on free throws

Senario Rising for Tide's Hoops Squad

Alabama Strategy and Personnel

Tide Basketball Falls to Mississippi State, 66-56

Alabama basketball team's rally falls short at Arkansas

Steele back at practice with Tide

Tide points to guard play for win streak

After Vols, the SEC Chase Is Wide Open

SPORTS BRIEFS: Three Tide basketball players set to graduate

Tide puts on show at home

Hollinger maturing into starter for Crimson Tide

BASKETBALL SIGNINGS

Fast and loose replacing slow and methodical at Bama

Torrance to start at PG

Pickett, Torrance shine at the point

Riley Wows Coaches, Teammates On And Off Court

Torrance steels for new role

Alabama may be underdog

CECIL HURT: Questions face Tide basketball team

2007-08 Alabama Basketball Preview

A Steele trap? Tide guards now must take huge step up

Steele will redshirt in 2007-08 season

Tide hoop squad prepares for Canadian trip

Ten teams that will improve

Tide releases schedule

Steele slowly making progress

Gottfried's Pan-Am trip a 'great experience'

Tide Basketball Team Will Play Canadian Teams in Ottawa Labor Day

Summer Spotlight: Richard Hendrix

Rebs land in top three for 4 Star point guard

Evans leads Team Final to Showcase title

High expectations realistic for Vols after sweet season

Cuts for Team USA weren't easy, Gottfried says

SEC hoops coaches pick Tennessee to lead Eastern Division

Steele Continues To Make Progress

R.C. Hatch hoops star gains college interest

WHO TO WATCH IN 2007-08

NBA dreams merely delayed for Alabama’s Steele

No longer week in the knees, Steele ready to play

Steele recovering from surgery

Steele Steals Victory for No. 18 Alabama

Texas Southern (1-3) At (8) Alabama (4-0)

Sound Off

Gottfried could have changed some minds

Man of Steele

Power Rankings: Bigger out West

Tide Tries to Keep Hope Alive in Starkville

Mizzou Has Connections Galore with Steele

Highly touted Alabama emerges as favorite in next week's Paradise Jam

Inside Dish: Hopkins to succeed Boeheim

Not exactly even….

Alabama (20-10) vs. Kentucky (20-10)

Get well soon Ronald

No. 10 Alabama 71, Middle Tennessee 62

Entry: Ronald Steele and Chuck Davis are named to Academic All-SEC Team

Roundup: No. 10 Alabama holds N.C. State at bay; No. 4 Florida bites Stetson

No. 4 – Alabama

NCAA Weekly Performers

Even without Ronald Steele, Tide keep rolling

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CECIL HURT: Steele still has a long road to recovery

The Power Conferences Report

Gottfried not rushing to find new assistant

Hendrix leads team with three awards

Asbury stepping down

Ronald Steele Surgery Update

Tide's Steele to undergo surgery

Alabama's Steele to Undergo Knee Surgeries

Katz: Final Four coaches separating themselves from peers

Defending NCAA champs return to Final Four

A Look at the Final Four Matchups in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

Top seeds marching toward Final Four

NCAA Tournament: 12 and Counting

March Madness Betting - Early Round Analysis

Florida Gators: Focused on a repeat


SEC, Pac-10 shine in NCAA Tournament

COL BKB: So. Ill. 63, Virginia Tech 48

Kemp, not Fazekas, leads Wolf Pack to victory

UCLA ends losing streak, crushes Weber State

The Quest for College Basketball's Ultimate Prize

The road to the Final Four

Game typical of season

Wash out leaves Trojans in 3rd Place

Bama suffers without Steele

THE HOT CORNER

Steele, Bama bounce back

Gators rally

Steele's layup lifts UA

Ronald Steele a Cousy Award Finalist.

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Highly touted Alabama emerges as favorite in next week's Paradise Jam




ST. THOMAS - When the 2006 Paradise Jam Division I College Basketball Tournament begins at the University of the Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center on Nov. 17, the favorite to win it all might not be the team everyone expected.

Instead, it likely will be Alabama.

When the men's Paradise Jam bracket was announced in March, Villanova was the centerpiece of the tournament's first eight-team field. About the time that the lineup was being finalized, the Wildcats were ranked No. 3 in the nation and embarking on a NCAA Tournament appearance that would eventually end with a trip to the Elite Eight.

Now, with the start of the season looming and opening night for Paradise Jam just 10 days away, it's difficult to find Villanova near the top of anyone's preseason rankings.

Alabama, on the other hand, has developed quite a bandwagon.

The Crimson Tide are ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press preseason college basketball poll released Monday, and No. 12 in the ESPN-USA Today preseason coaches' poll. Villanova is nowhere to be found in either Top 25.

It seems basketball experts and media pundits have more than a few questions about Villanova. After watching the Wildcats lose three star guards - Randy Foye, Allan Ray and Kyle Lowry - from last year's guard-oriented offense, it's easy to understand why. The fact that Villanova's top returner, forward Curtis Sumpter, is coming off a severe knee injury doesn't inspire much confidence either.

But Villanova didn't lose the label of Paradise Jam favorite so much as Alabama took it away. The Tide look to be the best team in the largest and deepest Paradise Jam field yet. Alabama is coming off an 18-13 season that ended in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and included late-season wins over LSU, a Final Four team, and Florida, the eventual national champion. With every key player back this season, they look to be the class of a Paradise Jam field that includes not only Villanova but fellow playoffs contenders Xavier and Iowa as well.

"Alabama is incredibly athletic and they return, I think, everybody," said Nels Hawkinson, executive director of Paradise Jam organizer Basketball Travelers Inc. "They're loaded. From what I know, they are athletic, they get up and down the floor and they're well-coached."

While Villanova fell out of favor because of the trio of guards it lost, Alabama finds itself among the nation's elite because of one guard it returns: Junior point guard Ronald Steele is considered one of the top floor generals in the country and the main reason that the Tide are expected to challenge LSU in the SEC West.

Ronald Steele, an All-SEC selection last season, averaged 14.3 points and 4.3 assists per game and shot better than 41 percent from 3-point range. He is on the watch list for just about every award in college basketball this preseason and is ranked as the top point guard in the country by The Sporting News.

With big men Jermareo Davidson, 14.3 ppg, and Richard Hendrix, 9.4 ppg, also back in the fold, the Tide are a consensus pick to make their sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance this season.

"Alabama - from what the experts say - it appears on paper that they could maybe win this thing," Hawkinson said.

But Hawkinson also cautions against counting out Villanova, Xavier and Iowa. With the largest field to date, no one will have an easy road to the Paradise Jam title.

"Any one of four or five teams can win this thing really," Hawkinson said. "I'm a little surprised with the lack of respect that Villanova is getting initially. I still think they are one of the teams people are gunning for just because of the season they had last year."

Tickets for the 2006 Paradise Jam are on sale now and can be purchased at Modern Music in Havensight and Nisky Center and at the UVI bookstore. Tickets are $10 for Virgin Islands residents, $25 for non-residents and $5 for students. Discounted tickets for groups of 50 or more are also available at $5 each. To arrange group tickets, call 693-1199.

Kudos for Crimson Tide

What they're saying about point guard Ronald Steele and the Alabama Crimson Tide:

"I am confidently slotting the Tide at No. 10 (in the preseason power rankings), as I believe any squad with one of the nation's best point guards (Ronald Steele) and a big-time center (Jermareo Davidson) is legit." - Luke Winn, SportsIllustrated.com

"This is a talented team that should battle LSU all season for the (SEC) West Division championship, then play in the NCAA Tournament, where an extended run is likely, if for no other reason than the sheer force of Ronald Steele's will." - Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook

"Ronald Steele is one of the premier point guards in America." - Dick Vitale, broadcaster

"Alabama coach Mark Gottfried is earning a reputation as one of the game's hidden gems. His Tide made an Elite Eight run in 2004; don't be shocked if they make a similar run this March. The Tide aren't on national TV as much as they should be, but they'll get your attention by winning big games." - Andy Katz, ESPN.com

"This year, with a manageable schedule (a possible meeting against Xavier in the Paradise Jam might be the toughest nonconference game), the Tide could be undefeated heading into January." - Benson Taylor, SportingNews.com

"By March, Ronald Steele will have established himself as one of the two best point guards in the nation. Alabama will be a title contender and Ronald Steele will finally be recognized for his great ability and incredible toughness." - Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

 

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