l has made two modifications to e coach Nate Oats' assist employees, together with the return of a well-recognized face to Tuscaloosa.
Alex Accetta has been employed as director of program relations, per an announcement from UA on Thursday, September 3. Accetta beforehand labored with a males's hoops from 2015 to 2022, beginning as a pupil assistant earlier than turning into this system's operations coordinator in 2017 and director of operations in 2021. In 2022, she left Alabama for a visitor expertise position with the NBA's s.
The information of Accetta's rent comes shortly after she and Oats married on July 26, 2026.
Josh Pierre, in the meantime, strikes from director of basketball operations to director of participant growth, inheriting the position as soon as held by Christian Pino, who got here with Oats from Buffalo and is now on Bryan Hodgson's employees at Windfall as a recruiting coordinator.
Pierre has been at Alabama since 2022 after earlier stops at Elon, Mississippi State and Arkansas State.
Alabama males's basketball will compete in its first exhibition forward of the 2026-27 season on Thursday, Oct. 8 in opposition to Furman.
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