Alabama Crimson Tide
2025–26 Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team
University	University of Alabama
First season	1912–13
All-time record	1,829–1,111–1 (.622)
Athletic director	Greg Byrne
Head coach	Nate Oats (6th season)
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Location	Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Arena	Coleman Coliseum (capacity: 15,316)
Nickname	Crimson Tide
Student section	Crimson Chaos
Colors	Crimson and white[1]
Uniforms
Home Away
NCAA tournament Final Four
2024
Other NCAA tournament results Elite Eight 2004, 2024, 2025 Sweet Sixteen 1976, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987*, 1990, 1991, 2004, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 Appearances 1975, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987*, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Conference tournament champions
1930, 1934, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2021, 2023
Conference regular-season champions
1930, 1939, 1940, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1987, 2002, 2021, 2023
Conference division regular-season champions
2002, 2005, 2011
* vacated by NCAA[2]

The Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team represents the University of Alabama in NCAA Division I men's basketball. The program plays in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Among SEC teams it trails only long-time basketball powerhouse Kentucky in SEC tournament titles, is third behind Kentucky and Tennessee in SEC regular season conference titles, and is fourth behind Kentucky, Texas, and Arkansas in total wins. Alabama was retroactively ranked as the best pre-NCAA tournament team for the 1929–30 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll; however, this poll is not officially recognized by the NCAA.^[3] The team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 25 times, most recently in 2025, and has made ten Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights, and one Final Four in the tournament. Alabama's current head coach is Nate Oats.

The men's basketball program has spent most of its history in the shadow of Alabama's football team, but has risen in stature over the past several decades. The program was notable as a regular conference basketball contender in the 1980s and early 1990s under the direction of coach Wimp Sanderson and in the 1970s under coach C. M. Newton. Under former coach Mark Gottfried, the team achieved a No. 1 national ranking briefly in 2003. In the 2003–04 season, the team defeated #1-seeded Stanford in the NCAA tournament, and reached the Elite Eight round for the first time where they lost to the eventual national champion, Connecticut.

Under Nate Oats, the team earned SEC titles in 2021 and 2023. In the latter year, the Crimson Tide achieved their best-ever season in program history to that point, earning the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament. They fell to the eventual runner-up, San Diego State, in the Sweet Sixteen. In the 2024 NCAA tournament, they defeated #1-seeded North Carolina in the Sweet Sixteen, and defeated #6-seeded Clemson in the Elite Eight to advance to their first Final Four appearance in the school's history where they lost to the eventual national champion, UConn.