A week ago, during the Tide on Tour stop in Birmingham, Nate Oats spoke those words of magic, daring to go where no basketball team in school history had gone before.
With the team we have returning, we have an opportunity to win a national championship, Oats stated.
The All-American guard who owns the program’s single-season points record was not on the squad he had coming back at that point, unless he knew something at the time that we didn’t know for sure. It does at this moment.
Mark Sears decided to run it back with the Crimson Tide on the final day for early NBA Draft entrants to declare whether they would stay in the draft or return to school. While his tweet conveying the news was straightforward and free of extraneous details like punctuation or photos, his Instagram post was more colorful.
At exactly 5:16 p.m., X simply wrote, “Last dance #rolltide,” on the screen.
