Alabama plays Robert Morris on Friday

The University of Alabama men's basketball team will play Robert Morris on Friday in the East region of the 2025 NCAA tournament. The Tide is the number 2 seed in the East Region, while Robert Morris is the number 15 seed.

The game will be on at 11:40 a.m. CDT at the Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (t will be televised on truTV.

If the Tide wins on Friday, they will face either Vanderbilt or Saint Mary's.

This is the 25th time that Alabama has played in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Eight of those tournament appearances have come under he tenure of head Coach Nate Oats. This is the fifth straight year that Oats has led the Tide to the Tournament.

"It is the NCAA tournament," said Oats. "Only 69 teams get in out of 360 teams in Division one."

The Tide is led on the court by senior Guard Mark Sears who was named an AP All-American on Tuesday. Sears ranks third on Alabama's all-time scoring list with 1,876 career points. Sears is a native of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

The Tide's SEC Championship dreams were dashed by Florida in the SEC tournament semifinals.

"We have got to regroup," Sears said after the Tide loss to Florida. "We had a pretty good season. We played a lot of tough teams. We will be ready."

Senior Center/Forward Grant Nelson suffered a knee injury in the Florida game.

"We were right in the game until he went out," Oats said of Nelson going out in the Florida game. "It was a lot tougher with him out."

"We are going to have to do a lot of soul searching to decide how bad we want to make a deep run," said Coach Oats.

"Our players are going to have to determine how bad they want to make a run," said Oats. "It is player led."

Oats on his coach's show said that Nelson is questionable for the game on Friday.