Alabama vs. Robert Morris: Tip time, TV channel for first-round matchup
The NCAA Tournament bracket is now set and so are the start times for the first-round games.
No. 2-seed Alabama and 15-seed Robert Morris will play Friday, March 21, at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The first-round matchup is scheduled to tip off at 11:40 a.m. CT and broadcast live on truTV, it was announced on Sunday evening. It will also stream live on Max.
Spero Dedes, Jim Spanarkel and Jon Rothstein will be on the call.
This is the 25th NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, with Alabama owning a record of 27-24 (.529). The Crimson Tide is coming off the program’s first-ever Final Four appearance and has made the big dance five consecutive seasons under head coach Nate Oats.
Alabama enters the NCAA Tournament as a No. 2 seed and the postseason event’s sixth-best overall team. The Crimson Tide (25-8, 13-5 SEC) lost to 1-seed Florida in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament and will face the winner of the 2025 Horizon League Tournament.
The Colonials won their tournament championship game on Tuesday, March 11, to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. Robert Morris (26-8, 15-5) has the Horizon League Player of the Year, Alvaro Folgueiras, Defensive Player of the Year, Amarion Dickerson, and Coach of the Year, Andy Toole – the last of which Alabama’s Nate Oats is familiar with.
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“I played them when I was the head coach at Buffalo,” Oats said on Sunday. “They had the same coach. Coach Toole’s done a really good job there. They’ve moved from the NEC to the Horizon. Horizon’s kind of back in that area, Detroit, midwest area where I’m from.
“And shoot, they’re on a 10-game winning streak. They’ve got the Player of the Year in that conference, they’ve got the Defensive Player of the Year and they’re good.”
If Alabama wins its first-round matchup, it will take on the winner of Saint Mary’s and Vanderbilt in the Round of 32 on Sunday, March 23. That game will tip off at 2:15 p.m. CT on truTV.
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