Alabama, St. John's Basketball finalized the non -conference series, report

Kalen Deboer talks about Lee Corso withdrawal, Alabama Football Spring
Here is what the Alabama football coach said about the retirement of “College Gameday” analyst “Lee Corso.
Nate Oats seems to have won another non-conference test at the start of the season for Alabama basketball, and he is delivered with a Big Apple trip.
According to Jon Rothstein de CBS Sports, Alabama And St. John's finalizes a series at home against each other. The series would start this next university basketball season in 2025-26 on November 8 at Madison Square Garden, with the return match in Birmingham during the 2026-20 season.
The Alabama's Nile Collective, Yea Alabama, confirmed the report of Rothstein On his X account (formerly Twitter) That the Crimson Tide and Red Storm worked on the planning of a match in the most famous arena in the world.
The planning of a team like St. John's, which was classified as high as n ° 5 in the country last season and obtained a seeded n ° 2 in the NCAA tournament last season, is not something new for oats and the decision to plan the match at the exit of the door.
“Alabama male basketball is working to plan a match with St. John's to Madison Square Garden in November” “” Yes, Alabama wrote on X.
In recent years, oats have planned marquee matches without conference against Houston, Gonzaga, Creighton, Illinois, Memphis and Arizona, among others. Last year, oats and Alabama faced Houston, Rutgers and Oregon at the players' era festival, a multi-team event in Las Vegas in which they will participate again this year.
The expected match in November between Alabama and St. John's will be the first head to face between oats and the coach of the renown temple of St. John's Rick Pitino Since the invitation of ESPN 2021 events in Orlando, Florida, When Pitino was then in Iona. The two also trained against each other in the first round of the 2021 NCAA tournament.
The Crimson Tide and Red Storm used the transfer portal this season to reshape their lists from last season. St. John's landed Caroline du Nord Ian Jackson's goalkeeper, the Cincinnati striker Dillon Mitchell, the Providence striker Bryce Hopkins, the state-of-the-art goalkeeper Joson Sanon and the goalkeeper of Stanford Oziyah Venders, giving Pitino what many analysts THE The best lists, otherwise THE Top lost of the country this season.
As the Tuscaloosa News noted, oats resumed the Elite Eight team last year with four players of the transfer portal. The Crimson Tide recently won the 6 -foot attacker 8 inch 6 feet 8 inch Keitenn Bristow in the portal on April 30.
Alabama finished 28-9 in total and 13-5 in dry play last season.