NEWARK, N.J. –– For decades, it felt like the Sweet 16 was the ceiling for the Alabama basketball program. The Crimson Tide broke through to the Elite Eight once in 2004 under Mark Gottfried ...

With the exception of the very end of his final season, Mark Gottfried, a former Alabama star as a player, ended his Crimson Tide career at the end of the 2009 season having coached throughout the ...