Alabama-Birmingham Runs Past UT-Pan American Men's Basketball 103-82
BIRMINGHAM -- The University of Alabama-Birmingham broke open a close game with an 11-0 run to start the second half and never looked back in defeating the University of Texas-Pan American Broncs 103-82, Tuesday night at Bartow Arena.
UTPA (1-2) led by as many as five points and trailed just 42-34 at the intermission, before Igor Nikolic ignited the Blazer run. Nikolic scored seven of the 11 points during the run, including two put-backs of his own misses as the Blazers took a 53-34 lead. Nikolic finished the game with 25 points and 14 rebounds.
The Blazers (3-1) expanded their lead to as many as 24 points before the Broncs made a comeback behind the shooting of Brian Merriweather. Merriweather, who had just five points at the half, scored 17 in the second half, including 12 in a 20-8 run that cut the Blazer lead to just 12 with 7:11 left in the game. But UAB's Morris Finley knocked down back-to-back three pointers to increase the lead to 18 points and the Broncs never got closer than 14 points after that.
UAB was nearly unstoppable on the boards, pulling down 55 rebounds, including 26 offensive boards to the Broncs 33. The Blazers also shot a sizzling 58.8% (20-34) in the second half and 47.3% (35-74) for the game.
The Broncs will return to action on Dec. 6th when they travel to El Paso, Texas, to take on the Miners of the University of Texas-El Paso at 8:05 p.m.
UT-Pan American Broncs at UAB Blazers
Bartow Arena
December 1, 1999
UT-Pan American Broncs (1-2)
No. Name FG FGA 3FG 3FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 11 John Braxton, f 3 9 2 8 2 2 0 1 1 4 10 0 0 0 1 18 21 Kyle Sanders, f 6 12 0 0 2 3 2 5 7 3 14 1 1 0 0 37 33 Matt Palmquist, c 2 4 0 0 2 2 1 4 5 5 6 0 1 2 1 19 05 Kwasinda Curtis, g 3 5 0 1 0 0 4 2 6 5 6 3 3 0 1 28 23 Brian Merriweather, g 7 18 5 13 2 2 1 1 2 1 21 3 5 1 2 34 00 Reggie Kuzet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 01 Bernard Preston 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 10 Carlos Haywood 3 8 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 4 8 4 3 0 1 26 12 Gary Booker 4 5 0 0 1 1 2 3 5 3 9 9 1 3 0 19 15 Watara Banks 2 4 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 3 6 3 1 0 1 13 32 Machi Warner 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Team 2 2 4 Totals 31 69 7 25 13 17 12 21 33 28 82 14 15 6 8 200
Total FG% 1st Half: 14-35 .400 2nd Half: 17-34 .500 Game: .449 Deadball 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 2-10 .200 2nd Half: 5-15 .333 Game: .280 Rebounds F Throw% 1st Half: 4-5 .800 2nd Half: 9-12 .750 Game: .765 1
UAB (3-1)
No. Name FG FGA 3FG 3FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 03 Torrey Ward, f 7 13 0 2 1 3 4 8 12 2 15 1 0 1 0 30 11 David Walker, f 2 5 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 4 0 1 0 1 16 50 Igor Nikolic, c 10 16 2 2 3 5 8 6 14 4 25 2 3 3 3 26 04 LeAndrew Bass, g 3 7 1 1 1 4 1 3 4 2 8 5 3 0 1 35 10 Eric Holmes, g 1 8 1 3 1 2 1 2 3 0 4 3 0 0 0 17 05 Mark Kimbrough 4 7 2 2 6 6 3 2 5 3 16 3 0 0 1 20 12 Morris Finley 2 8 2 7 5 8 1 2 3 1 11 2 4 0 1 19 13 Myron Ransom 5 8 0 1 2 5 3 2 5 3 12 1 1 0 0 19 15 Bill Armstrong 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 21 Tony Johnson 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 4 30 Ladrick Simon 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 5 32 Sidney Ball 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 1 2 1 3 0 1 0 2 7 Team 2 1 3 Totals 35-74 9 20 24 39 26 29 55 17 103 17 15 4 11 200
Total FG% 1st Half: 15-40 .375 2nd Half: 20-34 .588 Game: .473 Deadball 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 3-9 .333 2nd Half: 6-11 .545 Game: .450 Rebounds F Throw% 1st Half: 9-14 .643 2nd Half: 15-25 .600 Game: .615 7
Officials: Danny Hooker, Larry Ware, Brian Allred
Technical Fouls: UTPA - John Braxton (1 - ejected) Attendance: 3,169
Score by Periods 1st 2nd Final UTPA 34 48 82 UAB 42 61 103