{"id":15099495,"date":"2026-04-05T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/alabama-signs-oats-to-new-deal-puts-him-among-top-paid-hoops-coaches\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:23:08","slug":"alabama-signs-oats-to-new-deal-puts-him-among-top-paid-hoops-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/alabama-signs-oats-to-new-deal-puts-him-among-top-paid-hoops-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama signs Oats to new deal, puts him among top-paid hoops coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne announced Sunday the school has agreed to a new contract with men&#8217;s basketball head coach Nate Oats.<\/p>\n<p>Oats&#8217; new deal will &#8220;make him one of the top-five compensated men&#8217;s basketball coaches in the country,&#8221; Byrne said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yea_ala\/status\/2040836907030994993\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach is now under contract through 2031-32, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffborzello\/status\/2040840038875840784\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Borzello<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-score-article-ad-unit\"><\/div>\n<p>Oats said ahead of Alabama&#8217;s Sweet 16 loss to Michigan that he had &#8220;absolutely no reason to leave&#8221; the program for North Carolina, which continues to seek a new bench boss after firing Hubert Davis on March 24. Oats is the third power conference coach to secure a contract extension amid the Tar Heels&#8217; coaching vacancy, joining Tommy Lloyd at Arizona and Vanderbilt&#8217;s Mark Byington.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Crimson Tide&#8217;s run ended at the hands of eventual national finalist Michigan, it was the program&#8217;s sixth consecutive appearance at the NCAA Tournament and the fourth time it reached the Sweet 16 during Oats&#8217; seven seasons in charge. He&#8217;s also assembled another strong recruit class for 2026, including five-star wing Jaxon Richardson, the nation&#8217;s No. 17-ranked prospect, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/rankings\/scnext300boys\/_\/class\/2026\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the 51-year-old led Alabama to the Final Four for the first time in the men&#8217;s national tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the team for the 2019-20 campaign, Oats owns a combined 170-73 coaching record.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Copyright &copy; 2026 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/ncaab\/news\/3515466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sports NCAA Basketball \u2013 The Score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne announced Sunday the school has agreed to a new contract with men&#8217;s basketball head coach Nate Oats.Oats&#8217; new deal will &#8220;make him one of the top-five compensated men&#8217;s basketball coaches in the country,&#8221; Byrne said\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15099510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15099495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",1920,1072,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-620x346.jpg",620,346,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-768x429.jpg",768,429,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-940x525.jpg",940,525,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-1536x858.jpg",1536,858,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",1920,1072,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",24,13,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",96,54,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",150,84,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/15099495-output_-1_0.jpg",300,168,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15099495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099509,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099495\/revisions\/15099509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15099510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15099495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15099495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15099495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}