Thursday, March 19, 2026

TNR 3/17/26 – Hour 1 | Alabama Without Aden Holloway & Steven Pearl on the NIT

  • Bad news for Alabama Basketball: No Aden Holloway for the first weekend?
  • The Alabama Crimson Tide is headed to the NCAA Tournament as a 4-Seed in the Midwest Region, the Michigan Wolverines are the 1-Seed in that bracket. Alabama Basketball will face 13-seed Hofstra in the first round Friday at 2:15. The winner of that game gets the winner of that Texas Tech Red Raiders v. Akron Zips game.
  • On the heels of his arrest, it appears Aden Holloway will miss at least the first two days of this tournament. Alabama’s second leading scorer has been suspended by the school.
  • The SEC has nine teams locked in the Tournament and Texas trying to play their way in through Dayton. The two SEC bubble teams left out were the Auburn Tigers and the Oklahoma Sooners.
  • Steven Pearl on the decision to play in the NIT
  • Steven Pearl gets asked if he expects anyone to opt out of the NIT
  • Steven Pearl gets asked how playing in the NIT will affect preparing for the portal

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