The 2025–26 Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team represented the University of Alabama during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Crimson Tide, led by seventh-year head coach Nate Oats, played their home games at Coleman Coliseum located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as a member of the SEC.

Previous season The Crimson Tide finished the 2024–25 season with a record of 28–9, 13–5 in SEC play to finish in third place. In the SEC tournament, they defeated Kentucky in the quarterfinals before falling to Florida for a second year in a row, this time in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the number two seed in the East Region, where they defeated Robert Morris in the first round, Saint Mary's in the second round and BYU in the Sweet Sixteen before falling to Duke in the Elite Eight.

Offseason Departures Alabama departures Mark Sears 1 G 6'1" 190 GS Senior Muscle Shoals, AL Graduated/undrafted, signed with the Milwaukee Bucks Grant Nelson 4 F 6'11" 230 GS Senior Devils Lake, ND Graduated Chris Youngblood 8 G 6'4" 223 GS Senior Tuscaloosa, AL Graduated/undrafted, signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder Mouhamed Dioubate 10 F 6'7" 215 Sophomore Queens, NY Transferred to Kentucky Clifford Omoruyi 11 C 6'11" 250 GS Senior Benin City, Nigeria Graduated, signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. Jarin Stevenson 15 F 6'11" 215 Sophomore Chapel Hill, NC Transferred to North Carolina Naas Cunningham 24 F 6'7" 175 Freshman Orange, NJ Transferred to UNLV Derrion Reid 35 F 6'8" 220 Freshman Grovetown, GA Transferred to Oklahoma Max Scharnowski 45 F 6'6" 205 GS Senior Elgin, IL Graduated

Incoming transfers

Alabama incoming transfers Taylor Bol Bowen 7 F 6'10" 202 Junior Jericho, VT Florida State Jalil Bethea 1 G 6'5" 190 Sophomore Philadelphia, PA Miami (FL) Noah Williamson 15 C 7'0" 255 Senior Riga, Latvia Bucknell Keitenn Bristow 10 F 6'10" 205 Sophomore Wichita Falls, TX Tarleton State Preston Murphy Jr. 11 G 6'1" 180 Junior Barrington, R.I. Northern Oklahoma College

Recruiting class 2025 recruiting class

Roster

Former Alabama center Charles Bediako made a brief return to the Crimson Tide during the season while on a temporary restraining order. He attempted to regain college eligibility to play out one final college season. He appeared in five games between January 24 and February 7, helping the team go 3–2 over that stretch.

Schedule and results

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Rankings

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