Link: Busy Summer on Tap for Tide Men's Hoops

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If it seems as if the college basketball preseason is already here it's because these days the season never really ends. With incoming freshman arriving to campuses around the nation in the last week, nearly every day between now and November will be spent preparing for the upcoming season.

At Alabama, that means incorporating a recruiting class ranked among the top six hauls for the 2017 cycle with a core of six returning players that ate up most of the minutes a season ago. Developing the all important team dynamic for Avery Johnson's third Crimson Tide team began as soon as the Summer I semester got underway.

According to Colton Houston, director of basketball operations at UA, opportunities to work with players this time of year are more plentiful than they were not so long ago.

"The NCAA has relaxed some of the rules from where they were a couple of years ago, so we're allowed to do pretty much everything with them," Houston said. "We're only restricted in how often we can get together, so right now we're in a situation all summer -- while these guys are in classes -- that we can do two hours a week of basketball interaction with them and there's really no limits on (how that time is used). We could have a two-hour practice every Tuesday if we wanted to and then they get six hours a week of strength and conditioning.

"Obviously, this time of year the weight room is huge, especially for these new guys. So our strength and conditioning coach, Lou DeNeen, has started putting those guys through the rigors of the offseason program, which, I guess, is our version of the Fourth Quarter program. But we're able to do quite a lot with them, which is great."
Looks like the Canada trip in August will be a good test for the team:

While time spent together on the floor and in the weight room in June is an important part of the team building process, practices leading up to an August trip to Canada -- where, according to CUSN, UA will take on McGill University (August 7 in Montreal), Carleton University (August 9 in Ottawa) and Ottawa University (August 10 in Ottawa) -- is when Alabama's talented roster will really get to work. The Crimson Tide will be allowed ten full-team practices during that time.
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Of the three teams UA will face north of the border, Carleton represents the best program Canadian college hoops has to offer. In addition to posting exhibition wins over Wisconsin (by 13 points prior to the Badgers' run to the 2013 Final Four) and Wichita State (by 25 in a 2016 game that saw Shockers' coach Gregg Marshall receive a technical foul) in recent years, the Ravens have won 13 of the last 15 U Sports national championships, including a current streak of seven crowns in a row.
 

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