In a state entrenched in football tradition, Nate Oats and Bruce Pearl have transformed the Tide and Tigers to the two best teams in college basketball.

While they allow 86.0 points per game on an effective field goal percentage of 50.3% in away games, they are holding foes to 73.7 PPG on 43.6 eFG% at home. In their last home game, they were torched by No. 1 Auburn, but they had allowed fewer than 75 points in three of their previous four contests at Coleman Coliseum.