Two weeks and a day after firing Anthony Grant, Alabama athletics director Bill Battle is reportedly making his pitch to the top candidate.

Battle will meet with Wichita State's Gregg Marshall in Wichita on Monday, AL.com can confirm. The news was first reported by TideSports.com. Alabama uses an FAA program to block flight tracking websites from following the movement of its private plane.

Marshall has been the focus of the search from the beginning. His team lost to Notre Dame on Thursday in the Round of 16, its second trip to the second weekend in three years. Marshall is 398-159 in 17 years as a head coach at Winthrop, then Wichita State.

Marshall was paid $1.8 million last season before bonuses for postseason play. Alabama paid Anthony Grant $1.9 million but could be willing to shell out well over $3 million to lure Marshall to Tuscaloosa.

Though he's repeatedly said he's happy in Wichita, Marshall said last Tuesday he would listen to a "crazy offer" from Alabama.

AL.com columnist Kevin Scarbinsky contributed to this report.