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Alabama's Charvez Davis, left, tries to drive past Mercer's Jeff Smith during the Crimson Tide's 90-71 victory Wednesday night in Coleman Coliseum.

FACTS & STATS: Site: Coleman Coliseum -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Television: ESPN2.

The fifth-ranked Purdue Boilermakers of the Big Ten Conference and the Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC will do battle at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa this evening.

JaMychal Green and Senario Hillman scored 12 points each to lead Alabama to a 74-46 victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday.

JaMychal Green scored 20 points in Orlando, including a go-ahead dunk with five seconds to play, and Alabama beat No.

Alabama received an unexpected boost from Tony Mitchell to overcome a lackluster first half and defeat North Florida 73-51 at Coleman Coliseum on Wednesday night.

JaMychal Green's dunk on an offensive rebound with five seconds left lifted Alabama to a 68-66 win over Michigan today in Orlando, Fla.

Martino Brock scored 21 points and South Alabama rallied back from Arkansas' furious first-half surge to win 74-61 Sunday.

JaMychal Green scored 20 points and blocked a potential game-tying shot as Alabama topped Michigan .

Five stats, facts and people you need to know before Alabama's game against the Friars.

Vincent Council says he was all but weaned watching college basketball on television.

Newcomers Tony Mitchell and Charvez Davis have come off the bench to give Alabama a 40-35 halftime lead tonight over Jackson State .

Scouting Alabama Coach: Anthony Grant Record: 0-0 Last time out: Forward JaMychal Green scored 12 points, and the Crimson Tide overcame 23 turnovers to beat Augusta State, 61-55, in an exhibition game Tuesday at Coleman Coliseum.

Alabama's basketball team will hold its final preseason tuneup tonight against Augusta State at 7 at Coleman Coliseum.

TUSCALOOSA -- Tonight's exhibition game between Alabama and Montevallo marks the first time Crimson Tide fans will get to see first-year coach Anthony Grant's product on the floor.

At some point during an open scrimmage during Thursday's basketball practice at Alabama, junior guard Senario Hillman hit the floor -- hard.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: F Tony Mitchell, a four-star prospect , signed a year ago but had academic issues to clear up and thus was delayed a year.

Anthony Grant's first Alabama basketball team is going to run. It started running weeks ago, it will continue running when practice officially starts Friday, and it will run all the way through a season that starts Nov.