There was change at the top of this week's USA TODAY Sports Bracketology with Alabama rising to a No. 1 seed at the expense of SEC rival Tennessee.

Alabama and Auburn are set to play two of the most anticipated regular-season games, perhaps ever, in the coming weeks.

R ivals.com national recruiting analyst Adam Gorney predicted this week that the Alabama Crimson Tide will land a 2026 four-star recruit over the Auburn Tigers. Gorney has Alabama

Over at USA TODAY Sports, Alabama moved up to a No. 1 seed, replacing the Tennessee Volunteers in the latest projections from the three-man panel of Eddie Timanus, Erick Smith and Paul Myerberg. The trio see Nate Oats’ team facing projected MAAC champion Marist in a first-round game.

Practices begin for four former Crimson Tide players on Tuesday with Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer scheduled to make a media appearance.

With last week's winter storm bringing snow and ice to Lee County, East Alabama Health employees faced the challenge with hundreds staying overnight at the hospital and other facilities so they could be at work the next day.

The biggest upset in college basketball over the weekend came long before Alabama tipped off against Kentucky in Lexington. In fact, it came 18 hours earlier when a member of Big Blue Nation went public and admitted the truth.

No. 4 Alabama and No. 14 Mississippi State meet for a huge SEC showcase on Wednesday night! It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Alabama-Mississippi State prediction and pick.

No. 14 Mississippi State (16-4, 4-3) has lost three of its last five games with the setbacks all coming against ranked foes: then-No. 6 Kentucky, No. 1 Auburn and then-No. 6 Tennessee. The Bulldogs notched a 65-60 road victory in overtime versus South Carolina on Saturday. Alabama beat visiting LSU 80-73 on Saturday.

But the 6-foot-1, 180-pound sophomore did find his way back. Tuesday night against Vanderbilt, he led Alabama in scoring, putting up 22 points off the bench in Coleman Coliseum during the Crimson Tide’s 103-87 win.

UConn and Kansas opened the 2024-25 season as the teams with the best odds of winning the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Those two programs were followed by Duke, Alabama, Houston to round out the top five. UConn currently has the 17th-shortest odds (45-1) to win the tournament,

The Crimson Tide guard scored 22 points on Tuesday night and detailed how he's been grateful to his Alabama teammates after transferring from the Tigers this offseason.