The college basketball coaching carousel is in full effect as the 2018-19 season is down to its final 16 teams.
Not many conferences will have more new coaches than the SEC as Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and Texas A&M are all in the process of looking for a new head coach.
But in the case of the Alabama Crimson Tide, they have found their new head coach in Buffalo’s Nate Oats, but they will have a handful of open roster spots as four players from their 2018-19 roster have entered the transfer portal, according to Jeff Goodman, who added Petty is set on leaving Tuscaloosa:
Alabama sophomore wing John Petty told me that he is transferring no matter who the Crimson Tide hire as their new coach.