Nate Oats, Alabama players wary of upsets in wild South bracket

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Top-seeded Alabama is the team with the target on its back in this year’s NCAA Tournament, but Nate Oats still remembers showing up to the Big Dance with the side wearing the glass slipper. While Oats’ Alabama team will be the favorite in every game it plays this month, the head coach is familiar with what it’s like the be the underdog from his time at Buffalo. Entering Saturday’s matchup between No. 1 seed Alabama and No. 8 seed Maryland, Oats is passing along insight on the underdog mindset to his players.

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