Alabama basketball returned from The Big Apple with a win, but can the Crimson Tide spark a streak against a top-ranked Purdue team?

Coaches Nate Oats and Matt Painter face off again for the 2025-26 season after No. 9 Alabama traveled to West Lafayette last season for an 87-78 loss to the Boilermakers.

Three vital starters — highlighted by guard Braden Smith and forward Trey Kaufman-Renn — return for Purdue while a handful of the guys most critical to forging Alabama's most recent Elite Eight run have moved on to the pros.

As Kaufman-Renn makes his season debut after missing Purdue's first two wins of the year with a hip injury, the test for Alabama's frontcourt will be taller on Thursday, Nov. 13, and the Crimson Tide is already down one big man in freshman Collins Onyejiaka (me

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