coach Nate Oats gathered his backcourt and offered a strange prediction for a team whose best player had been mired in a miserable shooting slump. “We’re gonna rain them,” Oats said.

Despite struggling shooting, it didn't show in Sears' effort against Robert Morris. Alabama head coach Nate Oats said after the game that Sears had a sense of urgency about him and was telling ...

Sears helped deliver a bonkers shooting night for Alabama, rolling to the 113-88 romp on Thursday. Nate Oats dished out some motivation beforehand, though, to spark the epic shooting performance.

In the postgame, Alabama coach Nate Oats ... really Coach Oats," Philon said. "I heard him at shootaround say, 'Hit the mark!' like he was trying to tell him [Sears] that he was shooting poor.

Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide made a big splash in the ... They averaged 90.7 points on 48.4% shooting from the ...

In the Crimson Tide's rout of BYU, Alabama made a March Madness record 25 3-pointers, with Mark Sears scoring 34 points on 10-of-16 shooting from ... Alabama coach Nate Oats spoke to the media ...

The No. 2 seed Alabama Crimson Tide went from delivering one of the greatest shooting performances in ... Alabama program stood before head coach Nate Oats took over. Oats has been crucial to ...