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.

The Alabama Crimson Tide were on the road Saturday. There, they fended off the Arkansas Razorbacks as they fought to hold on and avoid an upset. However, head coach Nate Oats was frustrated that it got close enough to be a concern at the end.