Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats made a statement on Saturday night after his team’s win against the Arkansas Razorbacks that will have Tennessee Vols fans rolling their eyes.
Oats suggested during his post-game media session on Saturday that Alabama would have won the regular season SEC championship this season (instead of the Vols) if guard Latrell Wrightsell had not missed four games (including Bama’s recent loss to Tennessee) with a head injury.
“I feel like if we’d have had him in all those games he was out, we definitely wouldn’t have lost some of the ones we did,” said Oats . “We’d have a league championship if he hadn’t gone down. But that’s some of the adversity we’ve gotta play through.”
Oats also made it clear that he’s hoping for a rematch with Tennessee in the SEC Tournament this upcoming week.
“(Alabama being the No. 3 seed) means we’ll be opposite bracket from Tennessee,” said Oats. “We’ll see who we end up with on Friday and Saturday. And see if we can’t get a rematch with Tennessee for a third time on Sunday. That’d be great.”