UAB Blazers

The Blazers won 10 of 12 road games in 2025-26 and lost more often than they won at home. Backing UAB away made 12.71 units; backing them in Birmingham lost 7.1.

Better away from home

UAB finished 20-12, but split the season in an odd way: 8-9 at home, 10-2 on the road. The money tracked it. One unit on the Blazers in every priced road game returned 12.71 units; only ten Division I teams made more away. At home the same bet lost 7.1, and only eleven teams lost more there.

Against the spread it was the same picture: 8 covers in 12 away, 5 in 16 at home.

Underdogs worth backing, favorites not

Here is the tell. Given points nine times, UAB won seven and covered seven, for 11.9 units. Laid points 22 times, they went 12-10. Across the 20 priced games as favorites the moneyline lost 6.59 units; of 361 teams favored at least once, only Chattanooga and Florida Gulf Coast lost more that way.

The three longest-priced wins all came on the road: at Tulsa 68-63 at +455, at South Florida 109-106 at +310, at Memphis 78-67 at +205. The three shortest-priced losses all came at home, the first of them 77-74 to Alabama State at -5000 on 11 November. Tulane won 55-54 and Troy 86-85, with UAB at -285 and -265.

The month that paid

January was the warning: 5-3 straight up, but three covers in eight. February: 4-2 and 5.83 units, more than the whole season’s 5.31. The year closed in the conference tournament quarterfinal, 83-78 to Charlotte.

Seven conference rivals were met twice. Six of them split the pair with UAB; East Carolina lost both, and UAB still covered neither.

The total

Seventeen unders, 14 overs: no lean on UAB totals either way.

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