Someone needed to tell Nate Oats his Alabama men’s basketball team had just won a game 111-73 the way he was talking. It was like the Crimson Tide had given up 111 points. A few minutes after No. 6 Alabama crushed No.

Oats said he'd spoken to a longtime friend in the NBA who told him it's all down to getting back to fundamentals, including improvement in guarding one-on-one, boxing out, sprinting back and communicating. He added that leadership on that starts from the top down, including himself.