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Where Crenshaw reported that some players wouldn't make the trip due to having to be in summer school (which made me wonder if there were some academic issues), Irvine reported that the players not going are Denzell Watts (injured),Hakkem Baxter and Denzell Collins (both are transfers and were not enrolled during the summer, which is a requirement).

bTW, Irvine states that this is believed to be the second preseason trip in UAB's history (Crenshaw says it definitively). I believe they are right. I think (blazerjay might recall better) that the only other foreign trips were to Japan and Canada, but those were regular season games during the season.

Am I right, blazerjay?

Also, does anyone know yet when the first game in Spain is?

Japan was off season I believe.

Larry Rembert had a 40+ point game in one of them.

I listened to it like at about 2 in the morning on the radio.

No, it was during the season. They played Georgia and New Orleans in regular season games and they played one exhibition game. That was the one Rembert went crazy in.

The regular season games were why they were on radio.

That would mean that it might have been during the holidays?

12-19-87 Lost to Georgia 66-85
12-20-87 Lost to New Orleans 56-72

The article said Watts had shoulder surgery, which is an odd basketball injury. Maybe it happened working out?

(08-15-2014 05:54 PM)jthrashr Wrote:  The article said Watts had shoulder surgery, which is an odd basketball injury. Maybe it happened working out?

I think it may be his 2nd injury with the 1st being leg-related...

It's the only other one I can remember.

The games in Japan were in a short lived regular season round robin tournament called Suntory Ball...I think UAB also played an exhibition against a Japanese university team in that deal though I have no recollection of the actual game.

The game in Canada was played on December 1, 1990 in an event called Hoopfest '90 which was in actuality just a double header. One game featured two Canadian universities. The other, UAB vs. #1 UNLV. In a bit of strange scheduling, UAB played Auburn in Birmingham on the night of November 30th, defeating the Tigers 71-65. Immediately following the conclusion of that game the team flew 2,100 plus miles to take on the top-ranked team the next day. The team played poorly and UNLV ran away with it 109-68.

Coach Bartow later called going to Canada to play that game one of the biggest mistakes of his career.

Yeah, it doesn't make a ton of sense to go to canada and play on game. But the chance to take on UNLV was probably pretty enticing.

(08-16-2014 11:01 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Yeah, it doesn't make a ton of sense to go to canada and play on game. But the chance to take on UNLV was probably pretty enticing.

The team did travel on to play Oregon in Eugene three days later...in a similarly played game UAB lost to the Ducks 98-71.

FWIW, UNLV went on to win the national championship that season.

They played more than one game on the trip. After leaving Canada, they played at Oregon three days later, losing badly there too, 98-71.

And one correction, Blazerjay, it was 12/1/1990, not 1980

(08-16-2014 11:11 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  They played more than one game on the trip. After leaving Canada, they played at Oregon three days later, losing badly there too, 98-71.

And one correction, Blazerjay, it was 12/1/1990, not 1980

right...typo

I assumed as much.