NCAA Tournament predictions have Alabama basketball as a No. 1 seed in the bracket ahead of the Tide's matchups with Texas and Auburn.

The SEC/ACC Challenge ended up 14-2 in the SEC’s favor this year. The men’s NCAA Tournament bid disparity could end up almost that bad — a record-smashing 14 SEC teams in the field of 68 because Arkansas keeps rising, and a match of the ACC’s lowest all-time output of three because North Carolina, Wake Forest and Pitt can’t do enough late.

Alabama has been a football school for 100 years. Can Nate Oats make it a basketball school, too? Or has he already done it? An in-depth look.