The UAB Bowling team (42-40, 9-8) traveled to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championship Games in Virginia Beach with aspirations of winning a conference championship and advancing deeper into postseason play. Instead, the team fell on the second day of the tournament to Monmouth and saw their season come to a screeching halt. Despite the loss, the Blazers rewrote the record books by becoming the first team in UAB history to advance to the second day of the conference tournament. Katie Hurley, a senior at UAB who earned Third Team All-MEAC honors, says that while the record may not show it,…
Author: Garrett Helmers
With the world watching, and on the biggest stage in the sport, Andy Kennedy and the Blazers (27-8, 14-4) suffered a heart-wrenching, season-ending 82-68 loss at the hands — claws? — of the Houston Cougars in the opening round of the NCAA tournament on March 18. Despite the disappointing loss to eventual Elite-Eight squad Houston, the Blazers capped off a magical run in March with a Conference USA tournament championship, Jordan “Jelly” Walker being named Conference USA player of the year and one of the best offenses in UAB history. UAB finished the season with a program-record 27 victories.…
With a look through the history of the city of Birmingham, one would find stories of UAB, Sloss Furnace and the Birmingham Black Barons. In 2015, the city of Birmingham, in collaboration with several sponsors, brought the Negro Southern League Museum (NSLM) to the heart of the city. Since then, the NSLM has been working to preserve the legacies of the great Black Barons, including Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Lorenzo “Piper” Davis. The Black Barons dominated the Negro Southern Baseball League during the early part of the last century and were known for their confrontation of racial and…
Trey Jemison stops by Kaleidoscope Sports Report to talk the UAB Men’s Basketball season and give some insight into his life off the court. Plus hosts Katherine Kirk and Garrett Helmers give their thoughts on the upcoming football season.
For the first time since 2015, the UAB Blazers have won the Conference USA tournament championship and are headed back to the big dance. They defeated LA Tech 82-73 Saturday night to earn the title. The Blazers led by as many as 19 during the contest but saw their lead cut to just three in the final minutes of the game. Who would provide the spark for the Blazers down the stretch? None other than Jordan “Jelly” Walker. Walker would go 11-11 from the free throw line in the contest, including a pair in the final minute of the game…
Coach Norton and the Blazers’ run in the Conference USA tournament came to end on Thursday after a 71-65 loss to Louisiana Tech in the quarterfinals. UAB played hard throughout but could not keep up with the Lady Techsters and all-conference player Keiunna Walker, who had a game-high 29 points. Despite their struggles to defend Walker, UAB had plenty of chances down the stretch to take the game but could not buy a bucket when it mattered most. With their win, Louisiana Tech moves on to play Middle Tennessee in the semifinals on Friday night. Zakyia Weathersby had a team-high…
https://soundcloud.com/uabstudentmedia/kaleidoscope-sports-report-s3-e3 UAB baseball players Christian Hall and Josh Sears drop by Kaleidoscope Sports Report to talk about the team’s hot start to the season. Plus KSR hosts Katherine Kirk and Garrett Helmers recap the last week in UAB sports and preview the C-USA basketball tournament.
The Conference USA basketball tournament begins this Tuesday out in Frisco, Texas. With an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament on the line, C-USA heavyweights will battle it out to see who’s truly the conference’s best team. While North Texas (23-5, 16-2), the reigning C-USA tournament champion and champion of the 2021-2022 regular season, comes in as the favorite, plenty of teams will have the chance to go on a run and make a push towards the big dance. Prediction The East has two well-balanced teams in Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee, but expect a team from the West to…
In a back-and-forth game that saw Zakyia Weathersby record her 20th double-double of the season, UAB (15-13, 8-9) failed to find a rhythm on offense and fell to Southern Miss (17-10, 9-7), 57-67. The Blazers opened the game with baskets by Maria Roters and Margaret Whitley but were quickly matched with big shots from USM’s Daishai Almond and Domonique Davis. Almond, who averages just over seven points per game, led the Lady Eagles with a career high 25. Davis and Almond contributed 40 of the Golden Eagles’ 67 points. UAB struggled to string together stops on the defensive end in…
Men’s Basketball Coming off their first road sweep of the season, the Blazers (22-7, 12-4) have nearly locked up the two seed in the West. The only thing standing in their way is a Southern Miss team that has not won a game since mid-January. If UAB can beat Southern Miss on Wednesday or if Louisiana Tech loses to Old Dominion, the Blazers will have a double-bye in the Conference USA tournament next week. If the Blazers lose and LA Tech wins on Wednesday, it sets up a winner-takes-all matchup in Bartow Arena on Saturday. Wednesday, Mar. 2 vs. Southern…