Grant Nelson will be questionable for NCAA Tournament opener, Oats says
Alabama forward Grant Nelson will be questionable for the Crimson Tide’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against Robert Morris on Friday, March 21, Nate Oats said Monday.
“We need to get him healthy,” Oats said on Hey Coach. “Not sure he’ll be ready by Friday. We’re hoping, at a minimum, he’ll be ready by Sunday with the possibility of maybe Friday. But I thought he played really well. We dodged one. It wasn’t anything too serious with his knee but for sure will be questionable for that first game Friday.”
Nelson limped to the locker room with a left knee injury during the first half of Alabama’s SEC Tournament loss to Florida on Saturday afternoon. Before his injury, he tallied nine points, three rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal – and the Tide was in front, 42-41.
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Entering the NCAA Tournament, Nelson is averaging 11.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per game while shooting 52.8 percent from the floor. He is shooting just 27.4 percent from 3-point range for the season, but in his last three games, Nelson has made 5-of-11 from deep.
Alabama will open the 2025 NCAA Tournament against No. 15-seed Robert Morris on Friday, March 21, in Cleveland, Ohio. The first-round matchup will tip at 11:40 a.m. CT on truTV. If the Tide wins, it will face the winner of Saint Mary’s-Vanderbilt on Sunday, March 23.
*** This story will be updated.
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