Erik Evans

2 weeks ago | rollbamaroll.com | Erik Evans

I spent a shameful amount of time on this Alabama basketball received four re-commitments yesterday around which to build a strong core for the 2026 season. It was announced that Tide will be returning: Junior sniper, combo-guard Aden Holloway is back. Holloway’s redemption arc at Alabama has been fantastic. He matured into the Tide’s best perimeter shooter, though he did have a rough patch here and there as the brutal SEC season slogged along.

2 weeks ago | rollbamaroll.com | Erik Evans

John Reed-Imagn Images Sometimes a player comes along who is such a transcendent talent that it is apparent even when they are a child how special they are. Alabama has been fortunate enough to have more than its share of such guys, but perhaps no one will be sp firmly cemented in lore, so embedded as the cornerstone of a dynasty and the genesis of modern Alabama football, so as much as Julio Jones.

2 weeks ago | rollbamaroll.com | Erik Evans

Jamie Rhodes-Imagn Images More recruiting news today out of the Portal, and in many ways, it’s as exciting as the signing of Noah Williamson, as the Crimson Tide nabbed 6’10” Taylor Bol Bowen. The former ESPN Top 100 arrives at the Capstone via Florida State, and adds significant firepower at the power forward position. His athleticism is off the chart, with significant ups for a big man. He can and does put the ball on the floor.

3 weeks ago | rollbamaroll.com | Erik Evans

Photo by Jordon Kelly/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s start with the gruesome news first. Alabama is essentially down to one scholarship TE until summer because of one injury after another. That means both true freshmen are missing spring, including one of my favorite players of this signing class, 6’6 245 hella’ athletic Kaleb Edwards. Marshall Pritchett, a true freshman out of Rabun Gap, Georgia, will miss the rest of spring with an injury, per Bama247.

3 weeks ago | rollbamaroll.com | Erik Evans

Rich Barnes-Imagn Images All year, we spilled countless liters of ink lamenting the lack of defensive rebounding, as well as the want of an impact big that could do more than protect the basket — one who was more than a lob option. It was, and has been, ‘Bama’s most pressing need almost every season. That sort of player is also what has separated the nation’s merely very good teams from its championship ones.