Alabama reportedly hiring former assistant as women's basketball coach
Alabama is reportedly set to hire a former assistant coach to lead the Crimson Tide women's basketball program.
A familiar face is reportedly returning to Tuscaloosa as the next head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide women's basketball program. According to On3's Talia Goodman , Alabama is reportedly hiring Pauline Love as their next head women's basketball coach. Love would replace former head coach Kristy Curry, who recently departed Tuscaloosa after 13 seasons with the Crimson Tide for a similar role at South Florida.
Love is currently the associate head coach at Oklahoma where she recently concluded her first, and only, season in Norman. Prior to Oklahoma, Love was an assistant coach at Alabama during the 2024-25 season where she served as the Crimson Tide's recruiting coordinator as well. The reported new Alabama head coach also has an extensive amount of SEC experience due to her time spent while at Arkansas where Love served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Razorbacks for seven years (2017-24).
Love also has past assistant coaching experience at both Southern Miss and McNeese, the former of which she was also a star player. Across three seasons at Southern Miss in the late 2000's, Love was a three-time First Team All-Conference USA selection where she averaged a double-double from 2007-09. In what will be her first-ever head coaching job, Love inherits an Alabama program that has four made consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, as well as five in the last six years.
Alabama went 24-11 overall (7-9 SEC) last season, and had a second round NCAA Tournament exit. Contact/Follow us @RollTideWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Alabama news, notes and opinion . This article originally appeared on Roll Tide Wire: Alabama women's basketball names Pauline Love as new head coach