After Kevin Willard’s messy departure to Villanova opened the Maryland head coach job, Alabama basketball’s Nate Oats was one of the rumored candidates. Oats never showed any sign of potentially departing the Crimson Tide, and none of the rumors came from reputable sources, but still, UA athletics director Greg Byrne shot them down on Monday.

Another former Alabama basketball assistant from the Nate Oats coaching tree has a new job. What the Tide's sixth-year skipper said on Tuesday.

Alabama head basketball coach Nate Oats couldn't will the Crimson Tide to a second straight Final Four, bowing out ungracefully in the Elite Eight. Duke won 85-65 and sent Mark Sears, one of the greatest players ever to don the Crimson Flame,