Whoever tallies the most of these points by the end of the game wins the hard hat postgame. A team score is also recorded for Oats and his staff to assess how "blue collar" the team's performance was.

This is where the blue hat workers come in. Workers wearing blue hats are technical specialists, ... While a white hard hat indicates a person of authority on a job site, ...

The hard hat travels on the road with the Syracuse women's basketball team. Alaina Rice won it after her performance at Yale on Dec. 4. Photo courtesy of Syracuse Athletics.

What is Alabama basketball's hard hat all about? Explaining the blue-collar point system coach Nate Oats uses.