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Alabama guard Latrell Wrightsell granted medical redshirt to play in 2025-26

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Alabama guard Latrell Wrightsell
Alabama guard Latrell Wrightsell (Marc Lebryk / USA TODAY Sports)

Alabama guard Latrell Wrightsell Jr. was officially granted a medical redshirt by the NCAA, clearing him to play in the 2025-26 season. The news was announced by Yea Alabama on Monday morning.

Wrightsell will now play a sixth season of college basketball, and his third with the Crimson Tide. He spent the first three years of his career at Cal State Fullerton and became a first team All-Big West player before transferring to Alabama at the conclusion of the 2022-23 season.

His first season in Tuscaloosa saw him become a key member of Alabama’s first-ever Final Four team. Having started his career in 2020-21, he was given an extra year of eligibility due to COVID to play during the 2024-25 season last year, but it was cut short due to a torn Achilles in late November.

Wrightsell was averaging 11.5 points and shooting over 42 percent from beyond the arc last season in the eight games he played before his season-ending injury. He now returns as the longest-tenured member of Alabama’s 2025-26 team, and the sole remaining player from the 2024 Final Four run.

Alabama head coach Nate Oats said earlier this summer that he expects Wrightsell to be healthy for the start of the season in November.

“He’s way ahead of schedule from everything Clarke tells me,” Oats said. “He’s working super hard, he’s doing everything he needs to do. We anticipate him being fully ready to go by the first game. He’s jumping, he cleared the jump. He’s been up here at Andrews, Dr. Waldrop was in charge of his surgery, he’s been pleased with where he’s at.”

The Crimson Tide recently filled the roster with its 13th scholarship player and has brought in a total of eight newcomers for this coming season, four freshmen and four transfer portal additions.

Be sure to check out BOL’s Alabama basketball roster tracker to keep up with where the 2025-26 roster stands throughout the offseason.

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