University of Alabama at Birmingham

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous university in the University of Alabama System in 1969.

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.