page_title: UAB Blazers
section_title: Men's basketball
hierarchical_section_title: UAB Blazers / Sports sponsored / Basketball / Men's basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: UAB Blazers Men's Basketball vs. Tulsa at Bartow Arena. Simple English: University of Tulsa playing basketball against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
context_page_description: The UAB Blazers are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs that represent the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the fourteen member institutions of Conference USA and participates in Division I of the NCAA. The school's men's basketball team plays in 8,508-seat Bartow Arena. The Blazers' colors are forest green and old gold. The men's basketball program has a long history of success spanning several decades.
context_section_description: The UAB Blazers, in effect, started their entire athletics program with the creation of a men's basketball team in 1978.  Setting the standards high from the start, UAB hired former UCLA, University of Illinois and Memphis head coach Gene Bartow. Known to many as the "Father of UAB athletics", Bartow led the Blazers to almost instant success. In 2004, the school once again gained national attention when it upset No. 1-seeded Kentucky in the second round of the tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. Since their inaugural season, the Blazers have made 15 appearances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament including 3 Sweet Sixteen appearances and 1 Elite Eight appearance. UAB has also appeared in the NIT a total of 11 times, including 2 appearances in the NIT Final Four.
  After only 34 years of basketball, UAB has had 31 winning seasons including memorable wins over Virginia, Kentucky, Louisville, Alabama, Florida, Villanova, Indiana, and Memphis, among others. The Blazers have amassed one of the best all-time winning percentages in college basketball. The UAB men's basketball team has been ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll many times in school history and as recently as 2010. UAB has been ranked as high as #9 in the nation. UAB's most recent conference championship occurred in the 2014-2015 season when they won the CUSA conference tournament championship. Until 1988, UAB played its home games at the Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex. Since then, UAB has played its home basketball games in Bartow Arena where the Blazers have won more than 80 percent of its games.
caption: UAB Blazers Men's Basketball vs. Tulsa at Bartow Arena
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