Alabama Crimson Tide NCAA Basketball Betting
The Alabama Crimson Tide is in the most successful era of its basketball program. Last year, head coach Nate Oats led the Crimson Tide to the first Final Four in program history. This year marked the second consecutive season that Alabama advanced to the Elite Eight. Although the Duke Blue Devils overpowered Alabama to end their season, the program remains one of the best in the sport. As an important offseason begins, it is important to recognize that the Crimson Tide is in the best possible hands and has a serious coach who will continue to reload instead of rebuild.
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2025 Alabama Crimson Tide Season Recap
Overall, the Alabama Crimson Tide is 28-8 straight up, 18-13 against the spread, and 16-14-1 over/under the total. Alabama has national metrics of 1st for scoring offense, 26th for field goal percentage, 123rd for 3-point field goal percentage, 206th for free throw percentage, and 2nd for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Alabama is 356th for scoring defense, 97th for field goal percentage permitted, 32nd for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 289th for defensive rebounding.
Late on, Alabama has covered six of its previous ten games and has gone over the total in three of its last five outings. First among Alabama scorers is Mark Sears, with 18.6 points per game.
Duke's long, tall, NBA-ready standouts smothered the Crimson Tide's nation-leading offense. They even papered over Flagg’s rough shooting night to lift the Blue Devils to the program's 18th Final Four with an 85-65 victory Saturday night in the NCAA Tournament's East Region final.
Flagg made only 6 of 16 shots, including a brick that got stuck in the flange of the rim, but still finished with 16 points. Kon Knueppel, another potential lottery pick, led the Blue Devils with 21 points, and Tyrese Proctor, who came to the postgame news conference with the freshly cut net hanging from his neck, finished with 17.
But the most important stat: Alabama's offense, one coming off a record-setting night from 3 in the Sweet 16, failed to crack 70 points for only the second time this season.
The Crimson Tide's 35.4% shooting from the floor was their worst all season, and their 25% from behind the arc (8 for 32) matched their fourth-worst showing of 2024-25.
Mark Sears, who came one short of a tournament record with 10 3s two nights earlier, finished with one this time. His six points were his fewest since he got shut out in limited playing time in a win over LSU in January.
Khaman Maluach - he of the 9-foot-8 standing reach - scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting, had two blocks, and altered a few more Alabama shots. Duke shot 53.6% despite its best player’s rough night.
Flagg was hardly bad in this one. He had nine rebounds, three assists, and the one mega-block that sent Mouhammed Dioubate's floater flying over press row.
But in a game in which both teams were focused on taking away the other’s best player, Duke did it more effectively, switching off Sears, locking down the perimeter, and never letting him find breathing room.
The fifth-year senior’s first bucket of any kind came nearly 18 minutes into the game, and the shot was a 16-footer from the elbow - the exact kind of midrange shot Oats’ team of dunkers and 3-point specialists avoids.
Sears’ first three came with 16:19 left in the game. His final line: 2 for 12 from the floor, 1 for five from 3. He also had six assists.
Labaron Philon led the second-seeded Crimson Tide with 16 points. Not a single Alabama player made more shots than he missed.
It wasn’t a totally lost night for Tide fans. Shortly before tipoff, the Alabama women’s wheelchair hoops team beat Texas-Arlington 67-52 for its fifth straight national championship.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (1) Duke 65–85 |
| 2024 |
Lost Final Four vs. (1) Connecticut 72–86 |
| 2023 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (5) San Diego State 64–71 |
| 2022 |
Lost First Round vs. (11) Notre Dame, 64–78 |
| 2021 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (11) UCLA, 78–88 (OT) |
| 2018 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Villanova, 58–81 |
| 2012 |
Lost Second Round vs. (8) Creighton, 57–58 |
| 2006 |
Lost Second Round vs. (2) UCLA, 59–62 |
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