Big Brain Coaching: Nate Oats Says Alabama Needs To Try Harder During The Season To Get A 1 Seed, Because 'It's Easier To Make A Final Four'

Whoa, hold on here. You're telling me all these years people don't try and get a 1 seed? You gotta try harder in the regular season? I can't believe we're seeing more revolutionary coaching here by Nate Oats. Gets a 2 seed, gets the doors blown off in the Elite Eight and comes to the realization that he should try to get a 1 seed. What difference does that make when you played a 15, 7 and 6 to get to the Elite Eight? No one really knows that answer, but hey, now they try. 

This is just one of those quotes I assume has to have more to it. I mean, how do you try harder to get a 1 seed? Win more games? That should be already happening. You went through a decent nonconference and the loaded SEC and won what you did. I don't know, maybe try to adjust or get some more length because Duke just made Alabama's backcourt look like JV kids lining up for the varsity game. Sure, Duke has the unique ability to switch everything with monster guards and wings, but Mark Sears couldn't even dribble let alone get open. 

I think my favorite part about this quote (which I had to double check was real multiple times) is Alabama made a Final Four as a 4 seed. They've already been a 1 seed. That didn't work out for them. He can't sit here and say recent history means Alabama being a 1 seed gets them to a Final Four. So everyone be on alert next year. Alabama is going to do a better job getting that 1 seed, which no one really knows how. This is why the SEC is a basketball conference now.