#Legacy Arena

No. 4 Alabama and No. 15 Gonzaga have played two of the toughest nonconference schedules in college basketball. Now, on Saturday, they will face each other on CBS in one last showcase game for the C.M. Newton Classic before conference play starts for both teams after Christmas. Alabama surged from a preseason ranking of No. 20 into the top five…

The Gonzaga Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide arranged a two-game series in which each team would go to the other school's home state - but not to a campus site. Alabama went to Seattle - not Spokane - for a visit to Washington state last December. Now Gonzaga comes to Birmingham - not Tuscaloosa - for another big-city game near the Crimson Tide's…