University of Alabama men's basketball coach Nate Oats is engaged to a former Crimson Tide staffer after quietly getting divorced in 2023. Oats, 51, casually dropped the shocking admission during a Friday, April 3 appearance on the Sirius XM college sports channel. "Me and Alex [Accetta] - my fiancée now, she was my girlfriend at the time - we were at a Knicks playoff game, and I'm sitting there at [Madison Square] Garden," he said. "I'm like, 'Hold on.