Alabama and Auburn are looking like top-10 -- possibly top-5 teams -- entering the 2024-25 men's basketball season.
Alabama guard Mark Sears, right, drives against Auburn guard Aden Holloway in a January game in Coleman Coliseum. We’re talking basketball here.
The Tigers have three of its top five scorers back with Chad Baker-Mazara and Denver Jones joining Broome as returnees with five-star freshman Tahaad Pettiford and Furman transfer JP Pegues headlining the newcomers. In all, Auburn has three incoming players with outgoing transfers Tre Donaldson , K.D. Johnson and Holloway headed elsewhere.
The far-too-early preseason rankings -- updated daily on some sites to reflect the comings and goings -- certainly like both Alabama and Auburn., both were top-10 teams in Monday’s update. The Nelson return helped push the Crimson Tide to No. 3 -- behind only Kansas and Houston and directly ahead of Duke and UConn -- while Auburn checked in at No. 9.is a few days old but Alabama is No. 6 there followed by Auburn at No. 11 .
Alabama reportedly had a high-priority target on campus Monday in 6-foot-11 Rutgers transfer Clifford Omoruyi. The center is the No. 8 player in the transfer portal rankings at On3 and No. 11 according to 247Sports. He’d be a huge pickup for Alabama considering it was a rim-protector away from being even more of a contender last season but Omoruyi is also reportedly visiting North Carolina this week.
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