In the last 30 seconds, it's on me. We subbed our bigs out before I should have. I shouldn't have subbed them out until after we secured the rebound. So that was on me, and then I had a chance to call a timeout (on the inbounds play),

Nate Oats knows he messed up. He bungled the last 30 seconds of the game against Tennessee. He regrets what he did, and he made that clear after No. 5 Tennessee hit a buzzer-beater to beat No. 6 Alabama 79-76 on Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Alabama head coach Nate Oats claimed the blame for the Crimson Tide’s loss to Tennessee Saturday, a matchup of top six teams in college basketball. In a stretch of three straight games against top five opponents,