TNR 2/25/26 - Hour 3 | Alabama CONTROLS THEIR DESTINY for March Madness Seeding!

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Alabama Crimson Tide have a home tilt tonight facing Mississippi State at 8:00 on ESPNU. Alabama Basketball is hovering around the 5-seed in most NCAA Tournament projections, does that make this a “Protect Your Seeding” game for the Crimson Tide? Alabama is a 14.5-point favorite in Tuscaloosa. Alabama also now controls their own destiny for the 2-Seed in the SEC Tournament in Nashville meaning the Crimson Tide would earn the Double Bye and not have to play a game until Friday. Nate Oats gets asked what the biggest area of growth is since the last time they played Miss St Nate Oats - we're playing for a top 4 seed in Nashville and we're trying to reach our peak going into postseason Also Tuesday Night: Kentucky Wildcats 72 vs. South Carolina Gamecocks 63 & Missouri Tigers 73 vs. Tennessee Volunteers 69 Wednesday: Florida Gators (-6.5) at Texas Longhorns 6P ESPN2, Georgia Bulldogs at Vanderbilt Commodores (-9.5) 6P SECN, Texas A&M Aggies at Arkansas Razorbacks (-7.5) 8P ESPN2, LSU Tigers at Ole Miss Rebels (-1.5) 8P SECN PLUS, LT's Trash presented by Bud Light! FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive 267,216 Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.
0:10.0	The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.
0:15.0	Hey, this hour, always brought to you by the great folks at Champies World Famous Fried Chicken, Champieschicken.com.
0:24.8	Hey, go by and see Sterling, Highway 119 and Alabaster for lunch right now.
0:29.6	Opened one minute ago.
0:30.7	60 seconds ago, he rang that bell.
0:32.6	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
0:33.6	And open the door and people started to flood in to enjoy the southern fried chicken that's brined overnight,
0:39.6	cooked to order the in-house made sides that are so good, the hand-cut chicken fingers,
0:44.6	don't forget the po-boys, the appetizers where you get the sausage, cheese, and pickle plate,
0:51.1	the Mississippi Delta recipe tamales.
0:53.5	This is all right there, Highway 119 in Alabaster, Champies Delta recipe tamales. It's all right there.
0:54.4	Highway 119 and Alabaster Champieschicken.com.
0:59.6	Congratulations on, I think it was an eight-year career for Bradley Bozeman, who's
1:05.7	retiring Roanoke, Alabama, Alabama native.
1:09.4	He and his wife, Nikki, the retirement being announced there.
1:15.5	Ravens, most recently, I think, with the LA Chargers.
1:18.3	It was most recently with the Raven.
1:19.7	No, it was Chargers.
1:20.6	The last couple of years, you know, it sucks for Harbaal because you're finally going to get Slater
1:24.3	and Alt back on that offensive line.
1:26.2	Now you've got to replace your center. I loved how he signed off, though. Bradley Bozeman. A little roll tied there. It just shows you like this is, well, this is something we're never going to see again with the NIL. I mean, think about it. You've got a guy that has played in the national football lake for the last eight years,
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