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Hoops and Helmets 2022

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UAB
Football: 9-4 overall, 6-2 in conference, 2nd in Conference USA West
Basketball: 27-8 overall, 14-4 in conference, 2nd in Conference USA West*
2021: 23 2020: 39 2019: 36 2018: 54
Category: Bowl Game, NCAA Tournament

Very, very good in both sports, UAB went on a roll of seven straight wins on the way to a Conference USA Tournament title and an NCAA bid, It lost in the first round to Houston, but it got a championship. The football team won nine games and stunned BYU in the Independence Bowl.

Clark Kennedy

Yes!! Baseball and softball doing well too. Great things happening on the Southside and guess what? This is just the beginning

Very good seasons overall from both basketball and football.

I will always have a bad taste in my mouth from this past football season from the Liberty, Rice and UTSA games. Despite the great bowl win, we left meat on the bone this year.

Basketball's goal should be not playing down to the competition and getting an at large bid next year. We were fairly close this year, but THREE awful losses kept us from getting a bid. We still were getting some love even with the three losses.

Football had its first season of what I would call “underperformance” since the 2003-2005 era Blazers. It says a lot about how far we have come to lose a couple of close games and feel, as you said, like we “left meat on the bone.” We definitely did. We did in 2020 also where we never should have lost to Louisiana.

On the other hand, we’ve certainly won our share of close games that made the feeling even possible. How different does our program look right now if La Tech could kick a field goal (2017), MTSU could count (2018) and UNT could execute an incomplete pass (2019), just three recent examples.

It all tends to even out in the end.

Football and basketball are definitely looking good. Baseball and softball too. Men’s golf is excellent also. Can we ever recapture national relevance in the two sports where we actually have had elite national success (men’s soccer and tennis?)