Alabama basketball working toward scheduling Final Four team for upcoming season
Alabama basketball is poised to add another elite nonconference game to the schedule.
The Crimson Tide and Purdue are in the process of scheduling a home-and-home series, The Tuscaloosa News has learned. The games would be played in West Lafayette and Tuscaloosa starting this season and the second game in 2025-26. This comes in the wake of Alabama also working toward finalizing a "home-and-home" series with Illinois in Chicago this season and Birmingham next season.
Another known game on the nonconference schedule for 2024-25 is Creighton in Tuscaloosa after Alabama faced the Bluejays in Omaha this past season. The Crimson Tide was set to face Arizona in Birmingham this season as part of a "home-and-home" series, but that game has been pushed back.
Alabama coach Nate Oats always likes a tough nonconference schedule, and that doesn't appear to be changing anytime soon.
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Nick Kelly is the Alabama beat writer for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network, and he covers Alabama football and men's basketball. Reach him at nkelly@gannett.com or follow him @_NickKelly on X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.
This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Alabama basketball schedule: Purdue home-and-home series in the works
