College basketball season is less than a month away. On Thursday afternoon, the Southeastern Conference announced tipoff times and broadcast networks for all 16 schools’ 18-game league schedules. The Crimson Tide’s conference schedule features home-and-homes with Auburn, Kentucky and Mississippi State, with one game against the rest of the league. Head coach Nate Oats has once again put together an extremely difficult schedule, with non-conference games against the likes of Purdue, Illinois, Creighton, North Carolina, Houston, and others on the slate in the early months of the season. The Crim…