A No. 1 ranking should have "zero effect" on Alabama basketball, per Nate Oats. Nick Saban's words are helping the Tide stay in check another week.

Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer was brutally snubbed in a piece coincidentally about how Nick Saban's retirement made Nate Oats the Crimson Tide's new toast of the town.

As the Crimson Tide has progressed through the season and moved up the rankings, coach Nate Oats is doing his best to combat any type of complacency or overlooking of opponents. So, he has invoked the wisdom of two of the greatest of all time in another sport: Nick Saban and Tom Brady.

Ex-Alabama football coach Nick Saban was asked to name his favorite UA player to coach. But over 17 years, one wasn't enough, so he named these five.

Alabama has been a football school for 100 years. Can Nate Oats make it a basketball school, too? Or has he already done it? An in-depth look.