Basketball team celebrates courtside, circa 1991.

Jacque Nero (#35) and teammates celebrate courtside at a women's basketball game in the UAB Arena [now Bartow Arena].  Nero was a Blazer student-athlete from 1989 until 1992.  She became UAB's first-ever women's player to earn the honor of Conference Player of the Year (1991); she repeated in 1992 winning the same award.  She holds many records at UAB, ranking third all-time in points scored and fifth all-time in rebounds.  Nero was inducted into the UAB Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.

March traditionally serves as the month for intercollegiate basketball tournaments, both within a conference and in the national NCAA tournament.  The UAB Women's Blazers have five regular-season conference championships and one conference tournament championship.  The Blazers have played in two NCAA tournaments and appeared in the Sweet Sixteen Round in 2000.

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