Guardian Aden Holloway Sues Alabama Coach Oats Over Alleged Scandal!
Nate Oats said Monday that Alabama was 'preparing to play without' star guard Aden Holloway when the Crimson Tide open the NCAA Tournament Friday.
Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats said Monday night that the Crimson Tide are "preparing to play without" star guard Aden Holloway when the Tide open the NCAA Tournament Friday against Hofstra. Holloway, who is second on the team in scoring and 14th in the SEC at 16. 8 points per game this season, was arrested Monday morning in Tuscaloosa County on a felony drug charge and was subsequently "removed from campus.
" Hours later, Oats spoke about Holloway's arrest during his weekly appearance on "Hey Coach," Alabama 's radio call-in show. Oats' told Alabama play-by-play announcer Chris Stewart: "Look, we've got standards in our program, and we've got ways we've held our guys accountable. And we try to keep everything in-house.
Obviously, some of the situations you can't, and this is one of those. (This) situation is a little different. We found out about what was going on this morning.
I found out this morning. I guess it all went down this morning. So we had to suspend him pending the investigation by the UA Office of Student Conduct.