After moving on from Jerry Stackhouse after a 9-23 record last season, first-year Vanderbilt men's basketball head coach Mark Byington has imm

As for Alabama, the Crimson Tide are also 15-3 overall up to this point in the season, as well as 4-1 in SEC play. The Crimson Tide, who have the nation’s No. 1 scoring team at 90.2 PPG, are also a top five team nationally, and come into Saturday off a significant win as well, which was a road victory over the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday.

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.

Go watch any Nate Oats press conference since the end of Alabama's loss to Ole Miss last week, or his pregame speech to the team in the hype video released by Alabama from the win at Kentucky, and Oats' frustration and disappointment with his team's performance against the Rebels is evident.

It is a mid-week SEC clash as we continue our College Basketball odds series with a Vanderbilt-Alabama prediction and pick.

Two and a half months into the 2024-25 men’s college hoops season, the SEC has made the most of the bigger, badder, and larger basketball leagues. All 16 teams in the league are sitting above .500 overall and have 10 wins or more at this point in the season.

The No. 4 Alabama men's basketball team has a goal of winning the SEC, regardless of how good the league is this season. And it's really good. The Crimson Tide sits at 15-3 and 4-1 in the conference following a 102-97 win over No.