Buffalo athletic director Mark Alnutt has confirmed in a statement to Mid-American Conference assistant commissioner/intergrated digital strategies manager Jeremy Guy on Wednesday afternoon that Buffalo men’s basketball head coach Nate Oats has resigned his post to accept the same job at the University of Alabama.
The hire was first reported by Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News.
Oats, who replaced current Arizona State head coach Bobby Hurley in 2015, took over the head coaching position after Buffalo’s first NCAA tournament appearance and went on to create one of the most dominant forces in MAC basketball history, accumualting a record of 97-43 overall (52-20 MAC), while winning three MAC championship titles (2016, 2018, 2019), two regular-season titles (2018, 2019) and two division titles (2018, 2019.