Alabama can improve to 10-0 in SEC play for the fourth time in program history Saturday when it plays LSU in Baton Rouge.

The 3 p.m. CT tip off in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center features the Tide, ranked No. 4 in the Associated Press, and Tigers, who have lost their past nine games and are 1-8 in the SEC.

Alabama also began the 2020-21 season 10-0 in the SEC, which was its best start since a perfect 14-0 conference season in 1955-56. That bested what had been an 11-0 start in 1946-47.

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PREGAME

— Same starting five for Alabama: Jaden Bradley, Mark Sears, Brandon Miller, Noah Clowney and Charles Bediako.

— Nate Oats on his pregame CTSN interview: “I think the back half of the [SEC schedule] is tougher than the front half. We’ve got to play at Auburn, at Tennessee. We’ve got five road games and only four home games on the back stretch. We’re gonna have to be better on the back half of the league than the front half.”

— Oats on Alabama after 57-point win over Vanderbilt: “Obviously it’s a lot easier to get motivated after a loss. Now that we’ve won big, can we have the same type of preparation, motivation. Are we going to play just as hard? That’s what we’re waiting to see today.”

— Oats on LSU: “They’ve competed with teams. They’ve been a little bit up and down, but I would anticipate we get a lot better game out of them than we did the first time.” Alabama beat LSU by 40 points in Tuscaloosa last month.

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.