When Nate Oats karate chopped his whiteboard in the first half of No. 4 Alabama's 110-98 loss at No. 15 Missouri on Wednesday night and received a technical foul, it seemed like more than just a frustrated reaction to a single foul call on Crimson Tide guard Mark Sears.

The rivalry between Auburn and Alabama has intensified immensely over the last several seasons. The battles between the squads of Auburn's Bruce Pearl and Alabama's Nate Oats have provided quality entertainment since 2019 and brought the rivalry to levels last seen during the Sonny Smith-Wimp Sanderson era in the 1980s.

Nate Oats' Alabama Crimson Tide are coming off back-to-back losses for the first time all season. Can they get back in the win column vs. Kentucky?

Nate Oats doesn’t have much time to process what went wrong with Alabama’s loss to top-ranked Auburn. Not with what awaits the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide. The loss to the rival Tigers in a 1-vs-2 matchup started a run of seven straight games against ranked opponents to close the regular-season schedule,

Alabama will be without forward Derrion Reid for a third straight game, but head coach Nate Oats provided a positive update on the true freshman’s progress after Reid visited the university’s team orthopedic surgeon Dr.

Long before Nate Oats donned the plaid jacket and became a big star, there was a man who stalked the Alabama sideline named Wimp Sanderson, Tide Coach from 1980

When did you realize that Missouri was going to beat Alabama on Wednesday night? For me, it was with about five minutes remaining in the first half when Caleb Grill threw down a reverse dunk in transition that sent the crowd into a frenzy and prompted Nate Oats to throw a clipboard.

Here are the top takeaways from Wednesday's college basketball slate, which saw Auburn narrowly avoid a letdown loss

Nate Oats smashes a clipboard on the court out of anger and receives a technical foul.

The Alabama head coach calls Auburn "the No. 1 team in the country for a reason" after dropping a 94-85 game to the Tigers on Saturday

Alabama head coach Nate Oats grabbed a microphone to scold fans near the Crimson Tide student section for throwing objects onto the court during Saturday night's game against Auburn. "We're trying to win the basketball game.