{"id":192834,"date":"2026-03-15T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:55:08","slug":"alabama-crimson-tide-heads-to-tampa-for-the-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192834\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Crimson Tide Heads to Tampa for the NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite an early exit in the SEC Tournament for Alabama basketball, the Crimson Tide was still assigned a four seed in the NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament as they head to the Midwest Region. They will face Hofstra in the opening round on Friday. Win that game and they get the winner of Texas Tech-Akron on Sunday. Michigan is the No. 1 seed in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Hofstra Pride finished 24\u201310 (12\u20136 CAA) after winning the conference tournament as the three seed. They were ranked No. 88 with an 0-1 record in Quad 1 and 2-2 in Quad 2. HU\u2019s best win was at #86 Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alabama had one of the tougher schedule\u2019s in the nation. They went 7-7 versus Quad 1 teams, 9-2 against Quad 2, and 7-0 vs Quads 3 and 4. Thus, they received a favorable seeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Many of the Bracketology \u201cexperts\u201d had the Tide heading out west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Head coach Nate Oats leads the Tide to the Big Dance for the sixth straight season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite an early exit in the SEC Tournament for Alabama basketball, the Crimson Tide was still assigned a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7953,89799,89800,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-192834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-mens-basketball","tag-alabama-mens-basketball-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}