Happy Gump Day, everyone. Alabama basketball will face off against Ole Miss in Oxford tonight at 6pm CT. We will have more on that one later.
It sounds like Keitenn Bristow may be done for the season.
When announcing that Bristow would be out for the game on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at Ole Miss, Oats noted that he could “possibly redshirt.” However, the decision rested with “Bristow’s camp,” as well as athletic trainer Clarke Holter.
Throughout the 2025-26 season, Bristow has been inactive due to leg and ankle injuries. After his last appearance against Texas, Bristow was averaging 3.6 points and four rebounds per game.
Oats noted recently that Alabama is also exploring a redshirt for freshman center Collins Onyejiaka and potentially freshman guard Davion Hannah.
This team just can’t get healthy. There are rumblings that “Bristow’s camp” has decided to hold him out for the rest of the season, and there is message board chatter that it’s financially driven. Keitenn’s mom felt the need to weigh in and defend her son.
Keitenn looked like a blue collar type player, so I’d tend to lean toward a real, nagging injury here.
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Mississippi State transfer DL Kedrick Bingley-Jones announced that he got his 7th year and will play at Alabama.
Kedrick Bingley-Jones is officially cleared to play for Alabama football in 2026.
The Mississippi State transfer received notice the NCAA approved his waiver to play a seventh season of college football.
“Thank you God! Waiver got approved by the NCAA,” Bingley-Jones posted to social media Tuesday.
Bingley-Jones has been in college football since the 2020 season. He spent 2020 through 2023 with North Carolina. Then he transferred to Mississippi State where he spent the last two seasons. The 6-foot-4, 320-pound defensive lineman is from Concord, North Carolina.
Lest anyone think seven is too many….
Tuliaupupu is entering his second season at Montana after starting his collegiate career at USC in 2018. He was sidelined for his entire undergraduate campaign at USC after two surgery-requiring injuries impacting his foot (2018) and knee (2020).
The linebacker’s first season at Montana — and eighth overall — was just his second full season played and third with game action.
He saw the field for the first time as a redshirt senior in 2022, appearing in all 14 games for the Trojans and recording 10 tackles, including three for a loss, and one quarterback hurry.
Tuliaupupu was sidelined by another injury in 2023 and missed the whole season. He wrapped up his USC career in 2024, playing in seven games for the Trojans before his season was cut short because of illness. He transferred to Montana in 2025.
Wild times.
Nick Kelly has a look at the RBs for you.
The top returning back for the Crimson Tide in terms of production will be Daniel Hill. He took 75 carries for 284 yards and six touchdowns this past season. The big running back showed some promise at 6-foot-1, 244 pounds, but Alabama’s going to need more from him this season.
Other returners include Kevin Riley (59 carries for 224 yards, two touchdowns) and AK Dear (19 carries for 140 yards, three touchdowns). Both showed potential, but they will also need to elevate their games heading into 2026.
The wildcard of sorts will be Jackson product Ezavier Crowell, a prized five-star prospect in the incoming recruiting class. The 5-foot-11, 210-pound back won Mr. Football for the state after a 2025 season in which he rushed for 2,600 yards and 35 touchdowns.
Rice is about to hire an Alabama staffer to an on-field role.
Tevin Madison aided perennial powerhouse Alabama as the Crimson Tide returned to the College Football Playoff — the program’s first bid under second-year head coach Kalen DeBoer.
Now, Abell is set to add Madison to his Rice Owls staff.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Madison is set to depart Tuscaloosa, Alabama, barring any unforeseen snags, to take the cornerbacks coach’s job in Abell’s Rice program.
Most recently, Madison has worked for the Alabama Crimson Tide with an official title of “football analyst,” though Madison has been the program’s assistant defensive backs coach.
The lowest tier bowls are dropping like flies.
In December, it was known that the L.A. Bowl, played in mid-December every year in Los Angeles, was being canceled after this past December’s game. Also getting eliminated was the Bahamas Bowl. On Tuesday, it was announced that Detroit’s Bowl game played at Ford Field has been canceled for next year.
That bowl game, which was held under several different names, had a 29-year run and ended with Northwestern blowing out Central Michigan, 34-7, in December. The final year of the bowl, it was called the GameAbove Sports Bowl. It debuted as the Motor City Bowl in 1997, before changing names to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in 2009, the Quick Lane Bowl in 2014, and then the GameAbove Sports Bowl in 2024.
Last, Tide softball pitcher Jocelyn Briski pushed through injury but all went well.
Alabama wasn’t even sure if junior pitcher Jocelyn Briski would be able to pitch at all opening weekend after dealing with a leg injury. Not only did she pitch, but Briski threw four innings of hitless relief work in the Crimson Tide’s 9-3 win over Villanova at the Buzz Classic on Saturday.
Her four innings of work only required 41 pitches, and she struck out seven of the 13 batters she faced. It was the first live batter Briski had thrown to since the fall.
That’s about it for now. Have a great day.
Roll Tide.
