Nate Oats has made Alabama a true contender. The former Buffalo head coach led the Crimson Tide to the program’s first Final Four appearance in 2024 to go along with two SEC championships and two SEC Tournament championship.

Kentucky Wildcats and Alabama Crimson Tide are set to face off on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at noon EST at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Alabama is coming off a home loss Tuesday night to Ole Miss, while Kentucky won its matchup at home against Texas A&M.

Tickets for the remaining home men’s basketball games are all sold out. Counting Saturday’s game against Alabama, the Wildcats have seven home games left. The team’s last game in Rupp Arena this season will be on March 4 against LSU.

Two of the nation’s highest-scoring offenses collide when Kentucky basketball plays host to the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide.

Five things you need to know from No. 8 Kentucky’s 81-69 win over No. 11 Texas A&M in men’s SEC basketball at Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center: 1. An ex-Aggie’s revenge. At UK men’s basketball Media Day, Jaxson Robinson smilingly told reporters he would be quite motivated against two SEC teams in particular.

The new studio album follows the recent release of Strings’ first live album, “Billy Strings Live Vol. 1,” which is nominated for Best Bluegrass Album. He’s won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass album and also has won many Bluegrass and Americana music awards.

The arrival of Mark Pope has turned back the clock on the Rupp Arena crowds, which had been getting angsty by the end of the John Calipari era.

The game figures to be a high-scoring affair with a lot of three-point shots taken. Alabama leads the nation in scoring, averaging 89.5 points per game, while Kentucky is third in the country, scoring 88.7 points per contest. The Crimson Tide shoot 31.2 three-point shots per game, while the Cats hoist 27.7 attempts per game from behind the arc.

After one of the most abysmal offensive performances in recent memory in the home loss to No. 21 Ole Miss, the No. 4 Crimson Tide will now travel to face No. 8 Kentucky on Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ESPN) in Lexington, Kentucky.

Whenever a top ten team comes into Rupp Arena, the crowd is always incredible, but something felt different about this matchup between #6 Florida and #10 Kentuc

Kentucky is cooking, having dealt Florida its first loss of the season two weeks ago before pulling off hard-nosed wins against ranked conference opponents in Mississippi State and Texas A&M. The Wildcats’ loss at Georgia on Jan. 7 was a bummer, but the response was electric — 16-of-32 shooting on treys and 95 total points in a frenzied Starkville.

The new playground will be named for Triangle Foundation, which donated $2 million to the Gatton Park, a privately funded park opening later this year.