The Alabama men's basketball team will look to clinch its sixth consecutive win when the Crimson Tide (7-2) faces the Oregon Ducks (9-2) on Monday night. But while the game is considered a home contest for Alabama, it will be played in Birmingham and will be the seventh time in 10 games the Crimson Tide has played a game away from Coleman Coliseum.

Having a game in Birmingham was something first-year head coach Avery Johnson wanted to do, for several reasons.

"The idea was we have a tremendous following in Birmingham – alumni, donors, students who live there," Johnson said. "Birmingham is fertile ground for some of the top recruits in the country. I think whatever happens, it's a win-win."

Alabama will look to keep things rolling on the road without two starters. Junior power forward Shannon Hale will miss his second straight game because of "medical reasons," while freshman point guard Dazon Ingram is set to miss the remainder of the 2015-16 season. The Crimson Tide hopes to continue its winning ways in front of a crowded Legacy Arena.

In Tuscaloosa, majority of UA's students have left town for their respective hometowns for the Christmas holidays, and while the Druid City has its fair share of December activities, the Magic City has a few more, being a bigger town.

"Taking it to Birmingham, there's a lot going on in Birmingham around the holidays so hopefully people come out, whatever they are doing, supporters, and take a look at what we're doing on the floor," Johnson said. "Every time we go into a game we have a lot of questions about our team. Hopefully, we'll get some of those questions answered and people just see how hard our team is working.

"We're very flawed, but we're working hard and we try to overcome some of our weaknesses with effort and organization and making good decisions on the floor and playing with mental and physical toughness and everyone understanding his role."

The early rumblings are the BJCC will hold a decent-sized audience, and that's what Johnson's hoping for Monday.

"From what I've heard we're going to have a pretty good crowd, which is always helpful," Johnson said. "And you're playing against a team that has been hovering in the top 25, have done a good job of building a basketball program that compete in Sweet 16s and hopefully Final Fours. And we're trying to do the same thing."

INFORMATION TO KNOW:

Tipoff time: 8 p.m. CT

Location: Birmingham

Venue: Legacy Area

Capacity: 16,390

Television: ESPNU

- Play-by-play: Rich Hollenberg

- Color analyst: Dino Gaudio

Radio: Crimson Tide Sports Network

- Play-by-play: Chris Stewart

- Color analyst: Bryan Passink

National radio: Sirius / XM 84

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:

Head coach Avery Johnson

- On what he's seen from Oregon on film:

"Dillon Brooks (15.9 PPG, 6.8 RPG), man, what a player. Dillon Brooks, he's strong, he's physical, he rebounds. Their team gets steals. Their team has 91 steals in 11 games. That lets us know we have to take care of the ball. (Tyler) Dorsey (14.4 PPG), whether they start him or bring him off the bench. He's a microwave. They block shots.

"They are a well put-together team. You can tell they were strategic in how they put this team together. They know what they are doing. They are not a team like Xavier, Dayton, Wichita State, Notre Dame, all those teams we played. Clemson. They know what they are doing. They are put together. We're not coaching against a first-year coach."

- On Oregon Coach Dana Altman building basketball at football school.

"One of the reasons I took this job is because I had a chance to do some research on what Billy Donovan did at Florida. It can work at a football school. You look at what Dana Altman has done at Oregon. He's a heck of a coach. You have football schools like Florida, Clemson, Texas, Oregon, Michigan State has been doing it for years.

"That's something Coach (Nick) Saban and I talk about all the time. When he was coaching football there they had basketball and football rolling. It's doable. We feel as our fan base continues to grow and we get our students more involved and the word gets out and our fans travel with us like other basketball programs' fans travel with them, we'll take a step in the right direction."

- On how comfortable he is with point guard Justin Coleman

"Yeah, and it's not even letting the reins off. I feel more comfortable in knowing how to use him in the games. I've only coached these guys a few games. You can do all this summer work, all this drill work, but you've got to get in the games to see how guys function and what works for them. We've been trying to run a play for Justin the entire year. It just doesn't work. So we've thrown it in Lake Tuscaloosa. We're going to try something else."

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