No. 1 Purdue basketball vs. No. 9 Alabama recap
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The 8th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide are set to welcome the No. 2 Purdue Boilermakers for a top-10 showdown Thursday night in Tuscaloosa.
Alabama basketball returned from NYC with a win, but can the Crimson Tide spark the streak against a top-ranked Purdue team? Live updates, highlights.
We've had seven top-25 matchups already this season, four of which featured two teams both ranked in the top 15 of the Associated Press poll. But Thursday night will deliver the first top-10 showdown of this season when Purdue plays at Alabama in a game scheduled to tip at 7 p.m. ET.
The Crimson Tide head coach details the challenges that returning Boilermakers Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn present from last year's loss.