‘A Lot of Options’: Alabama’s Dunkers Are Putting on a Show

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Nate Oats doesn’t think completing a two-on-one fast break should be particularly difficult when Jaxon Richardson is running alongside the ball.

In fact, Alabama’s head coach thinks he could handle it himself.

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“Even I could convert a two-on-one break if Jaxon was the guy running with me,” Oats said. “Just kind of throw it up anywhere up there and he will get it.”

Richardson and Anderson Diaz connected on a fast-break alley-oop during Alabama’s 109-68 win over Oakland. But Oats jokingly gave Diaz a hard time for another opportunity the pair failed to convert. Alabama finished with 30 assists, tying the school record, and Oats figured that fast break should have been the record-breaker.

There were still plenty of opportunities to see what Alabama can do above the rim.

The Crimson Tide finished with five dunks Monday, including Richardson’s alley-oop and a reverse alley-oop from Cole Cloer off a pass from Drew Fielder. Afterward, Amari Allen and London Jemison agreed this was the bounciest team they had played on.

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Oats wasn’t surprised by that assessment.

“I would hope so with the group we got,” Oats said. “If they want to call it the bouncy team, you start with the bounciest in Jaxon.”

Richardson arrived at Alabama with a reputation for those athletic finishes. He won the 2026 Sprite Jam Fest Slam Dunk Contest during the McDonald’s All-American festivities, following in the footsteps of his father, two-time NBA dunk contest champion Jason Richardson.

It didn’t take long for that natural ability to show up at Coleman Coliseum.

Richardson’s first college basket was a breakaway windmill dunk against Sam Houston State. He added an alley-oop later in the game, scoring all four of his points on dunks. His father shared the windmill on social media, celebrating his son’s first college bucket.

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After missing the Arkansas State game, Richardson returned Monday with another highlight.

“He seems to have found his way to at least, I think…

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