When: 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Where: Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.
TV: ESPN.
Radio: WJR-AM (760).
Game notes: The Spartans’ November gantlet continues with a trip to Portland to face the Crimson Tide in the first round of the Phil Knight Invitational.
Coach Nate Oats, who spent 11 seasons at Romulus High (with a 222-52 record) before jumping to Buffalo and then to Alabama, has a simple offensive philosophy: Fire and forget. In Oats’ three previous seasons at Tuscaloosa, the Tide has finished second (30.