Nothing needs to change for No. 2 Alabama after tying their highest ranking of the season. Nate Oats was asked about how the Tide approaches their final eight games now as the second-ranked team in the country during his press conference on Monday.

Alabama has been a football school for 100 years. Can Nate Oats make it a basketball school, too? Or has he already done it? An in-depth look.

A No. 1 ranking should have "zero effect" on Alabama basketball, per Nate Oats. Nick Saban's words are helping the Tide stay in check another week.