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How Many Wins Can Alabama Basketball Earn in Second Gauntlet of Season? Just a Minute

Welcome to BamaCentral’s “Just a Minute,” a video series featuring BamaCentral’s Alabama beat writers. Multiple times a week, the writers will group up to provide their take on a topic concerning the Crimson Tide or the landscape of college sports.
Watch the above video as BamaCentral staff writer Hunter De Siver and Will Miller discuss the extreme difficulty of Alabama men’s basketball’s final 11 games.
Earlier in the season, Alabama men’s basketball had a gauntlet of a 7-game non-conference slate on the schedule as the Crimson Tide went 5-2 during a stretch against four ranked teams that featured two road games, four neutral-site and one home game.
It’s impossible at this point in the season to name any other conference in college basketball that’s been better than the SEC. Four of No. 4 Alabama’s first seven conference opponents have been and still are ranked. The Crimson Tide has 11 SEC games remaining in the regular season and eight of its contests are currently scheduled to be top-25 matchups.
This is Alabama’s second gauntlet of the season:
If the season ended today, Alabama’s No. 4 spot in the AP Poll would give the Tide one of the No. 1 seeds in the bracket. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi actually has Alabama at No. 3 overall and placed it as the top seed in the Midwest region on Tuesday.
The question now is if the Crimson Tide can retain that status throughout the upcoming gauntlet. The number of wins can’t fully determine whether or not this will be the case, as a couple of other teams outside of the conference are also in the running for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
But for now, BamaCentral’s Hunter De Siver predicts Alabama will go 8-3 in the stretch with losses to Kentucky at home and Tennessee and Auburn on the road. This would bring Alabama’s final 2024-25 regular season record to 25-6.
BamaCentral’s Will Miller predicts the Crimson Tide will also finish 8-3 in the second gauntlet, bringing Alabama’s final regular season record to 25-6. However, his losing predictions are slightly different as he believes the Tide will be swept by Auburn and fall to Tennessee. Additionally, Miller agreed with De Siver that the Kentucky game may not go in Alabama’s favor and suggested that the same outcome could occur against Florida.
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Alabama Football Docuseries and a Mid-Range Math Lesson on The Joe Gaither Show

Let’s have a lot of fun on a Wednesday edition of “The Joe Gaither Show on BamaCentral” with Mason Woods as we have our sound issues fixed and want to get into Alabama football’s docuseries on Fox Nation and the Crimson Tide tries to bounce back against Missouri tonight.
The Crimson Tide welcomed a film crew into the building last season to cover one of the craziest seasons in Alabama history. The program discusses who’s running the documentary and where it’ll be posted. Will you subscribe to Fox Nation to watch this six-episode series? What parts of last year do you expect to be featured? Alabama had several dramatic moments in the 2024 season, will they be washed out of the series?
We transition to basketball as the Crimson Tide plays Missouri on the road tonight. Will Nate Oats adjust the lineup? What does the team need to do to take the final step?
The program finishes with a math lesson as narratives about mid-range shooting has us in a tizzy. What is the most efficient way to play basketball? How does 3-point shooting increase the spacing on the floor?
Call (205)462-7340 Extension 800 to leave your thoughts in a voicemail and you’ll be featured on the show or join us live on Mondays at 3 p.m. and Tuesday-Friday at 8 a.m. CT.
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June Jam, Alabama’s country music concert, won’t return this year

Just two years after June Jam rebooted, Country Music Hall of Fame band Alabama’s hometown concert is off for 2025.
The decision for a “strategic pause” was announced in a press release today.
Reasons cited include: “The economy in the region at this time, availability of guest talent and the moving of a large festival, Rock the South, to Cullman, Alabama, 80 miles away from its traditional dates in July to now June.”
In a joint statement, Alabama manager Mike Smardak and June Jam Foundation’s Greg Fowler, said, “We look forward bringing the Jam back in 2026.”
Founded in Fort Payne, Alabama is known for hits like “Dixieland Delight,” “Mountain Music” and “Song of the South. Today, the group’s still led by classic-era singer/guitarist Randy Owen and bassist/backing vocalist Teddy Gentry.
Alabama’s Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry talk June Jam, Jeff Cook, classic hits
Held at Fort Payne’s VFW Fairgrounds, June Jam’s original run went from 1982 to 1997. In addition to Alabama, performers at original era June Jams included the likes of Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, The Judds, Charley Pride, Steve Earle, Clint Black, Charlie Daniels Band and Glen Campbell.
Attendance peaked at 67,000 in 1991. According to the band, June Jam concerts have raised more than 20 million dollars for charities.
2023’s June Jam reboot drew a sold-out crowd of around 11,000 fans, who took in performances by Alabama, Jamey Johnson, Jake Owen, Oak Ridge Boys, Janie Fricke, Chapel Heart and others.
2023 was the first June Jam without Jeff Cook, Alabama’s beloved guitarist, who died in 2022 at age 73.
The 2024 June Jam lineup featured Alabama, “American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks, Old Dominion, Shenandoah, Montgomery Gentry, Exile, John Berry, Malpass Brothers and The Castellows.
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Alabama takes part in national anti-Trump, Elon Musk ‘No kings on Presidents Day’ protests

About 200 people in Mobile took part in a protest Monday against President Donald Trump’s administration and billionaire Elon Musk’s influence at the federal level.
Participants took to the streets waving signs and saying chants denouncing Trump administration policies including anti-immigrant rhetoric, cuts to the federal workforce and anti-LGBTQ+ policies.
Since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has conducted a mass firing of federal workers and announced cuts to funding for the National Institute of Health.
Notably cuts to NIH funding would negatively harm biomedical research conducted at the University of Alabama in Birmingham due to reliance on federal grants.
During the Mobile protest Shalela Dowdy, co-founder of Stand Up Mobile, stated that the actions by Trump’s administration have upended countless lives of federal workers. Dowdy said Trump’s obsession with wielding his power through executive orders was, “giving dictatorship.”
“We have an issue in Washington,” Dowdy said. “We have checks and balances in our country, and it looks like the leader of the executive branch is trying to have sole and complete control. It’s giving dictatorship.
Millions of Americans are being affected by the recklessness of these executive orders that are coming down with people losing their jobs.”
Dowdy also urged Alabamians to get involved at the municipal and state level to push back against the localization of Trump’s policies.
Demonstrators also called out the “fascist” nature of Musk’s actions as he spearheads the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE.
Musk claims that the efforts of DOGE are to cut unnecessary and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. However, critics argue it is an unofficial engine for Musk to gut many federal departments he dislikes such as the Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service.
The demonstration, dubbed ‘No kings on Presidents Day,’ was part of a nationwide day of protests inspired by a call to action by the 50501 Movement.
The name stands for 50 states, 50 protests and one movement. The organization is a leaderless, grass- roots coalition seeking to mobilize people against the “anti-democratic” policies of the Trump administration.
Protests were held in Birmingham, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa.
According to a press release from the organization, the White House is being governed by Musk through his status as a billionaire.
“We stand firm at a critical moment in history, demanding that the American people be heard and that the White House be governed by the true will of the people—not by a tech billionaire who seeks to buy influence and control,” the release said.
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