{"id":1184091,"date":"2026-03-25T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184091"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:26:15","slug":"oats-talks-sweet-16-trips-please-dont-take-it-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/oats-talks-sweet-16-trips-please-dont-take-it-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Oats Talks Sweet 16 Trips: &#8216;Please Don\u2019t Take It For Granted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama Crimson Tide is\u00a0headed back to the Sweet Sixteen\u00a0after a dominating victory on Sunday night over Texas Tech to reach the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Oats has\u00a0ushered in a golden era of hoops in Tuscaloosa and brought Alabama to its most successful run in program history, with potentially no real sign of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>That does not mean he doesn\u2019t know how difficult it is to win this time of year, and he made sure fans understood that while speaking on Monday during the\u00a0<em>Hey Coach<\/em>\u00a0show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey Coach presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alfa_Insurance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Alfa_Insurance<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CStewartSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CStewartSports<\/a> !<\/p>\n<p>Tonight:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaBSB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlabamaBSB<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlabamaMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlabamaMBB<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RollTide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RollTide<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nluGxHXpq6\">https:\/\/t.co\/nluGxHXpq6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crimson Tide Sports Network (@UA_CTSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UA_CTSN\/status\/2036216422259630577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not easy to do. Please don\u2019t take it for granted,\u201d Oats said of the fourth straight trip ahead of a very tall task against No. 1 seed Michigan. \u201cLet\u2019s get everybody supporting this team any which way we can. We\u2019re gonna give it everything we got. Michigan is not gonna be easy. We\u2019ve been underdogs before in this game. We\u2019ve come out with some big wins in the past. And we\u2019ve lost some of these Sweet 16 games, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our guys will be ready, and we\u2019re gonna have to have an elite coaching performance, elite playing performance. But our guys are ready. Super excited to coach this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tide will tip off on Friday evening against Michigan with a third Elite Eight run under Oats on the line, something the program had done just once before his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>It should be a tremendous night of basketball in Chicago, and though Alabama is a massive underdog, fans should heed Oats\u2019 advice and appreciate how far the program has come in less than a decade under the head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Alabama Crimson Tide is\u00a0headed back to the Sweet Sixteen\u00a0after a dominating victory on Sunday night over Texas Tech to reach the second weekend of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/oats-talks-sweet-16-trips-please-dont-take-it-for-granted\/\" title=\"Oats Talks Sweet 16 Trips: &#8216;Please Don\u2019t Take It For Granted&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1058720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,91,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-al-basketball","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ddh20230312076_bama_vs_tamu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184092,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184091\/revisions\/1184092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}