Alabama is perhaps SECs best hope to end national title drought [Video]

Alabama enters the season as perhaps the Southeastern Conference’s best hope to end its national title drought in men’s basketball.Nate Oats and the second-ranked Crimson Tide are fully embracing those expectations, with Mark Sears and Grant Nelson returning and several newcomers immediately grabbing starting roles. A 110-54 win over UNC Asheville on Monday night was a nice way to break into the season for a team coming off its first Final Four appearance.Overall, it’s hard to downplay a roster that added one of the nation’s top recruiting classes and some key transfers. No SEC team has won a national championship since John Calipari’s 2012 Kentucky team.Alabama headed a group of nine SEC teams in the preseason Top 25, so Oats’ team is hardly the league’s only potential contender. Just the most prominent one entering the season.“We’ve got a really good team,” Oats said leading up to that opening mismatch. “We …