Alabama basketball guard Mark Sears sat out the second half of the Crimson Tide's 80-73 win over LSU on Saturday, and while UA coach Nate Oats was mum on a specific reason, it was clear the star ...

Sears' curious absence was explained postgame by Alabama coach Nate Oats as a tactical move, not a benching, but his rationale for the decision sounded much more like the latter than the former.

If you took a quick scan of the box score after Alabama's 80-73 win over the LSU Tigers on Saturday night, the first thing you'd likely notice is that high-scoring All-American guard Mark Sears ...

Alabama coach Nate Oats wasn't even a year old when Wooden retired in 1975, but some 50 years later, he took that lesson to heart in the most profound way imaginable on Saturday night. It's ...

"We played the guys that we thought gave us the best chance to win in the second half," Alabama coach Nate Oats said. Sears, a preseason All-American averaging 19 points per game, went 0-for-5 ...