Alabama basketball reached its week off after beating Georgia Saturday, and won’t play again until it faces Arkansas this coming Saturday. As the Crimson Tide sits at No. 3 in the nation, head coach Nate Oats said he is taking a little bit easy on his team.

For the second straight season, all SEC basketball teams received a midweek bye in their league schedules, going from a Saturday to a Saturday without a game on Tuesday/Wednesday. Alabama’s midweek bye conveniently fell at the halfway mark of the team’s schedule,

He's indispensable to Mike White's squad, which was recently ranked in the AP Top 25 for the first time since long before either coach in Saturday's contest arrived at their respective schools (as Oats pointed out).