Battle for the Bones
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Football rivalry

The UAB Blazers
UAB Blazers
The UAB Blazers are the forest green and old gold-swathed athletic teams at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the twelve member institutions of Conference USA and participates in Division I of the NCAA...

 and the Memphis Tigers
Memphis Tigers
The Memphis Tigers represent the University of Memphis in Division I of the NCAA. They are members of C-USA and currently feature nine women's sports and nine men's sports...

 began competing in football after the Blazers football team joined Division I in 1997. That series now stands at 9 wins for UAB vs. 4 for the Tigers. Recently the game has been accompanied by a barbecue competition befitting the "Battle for the Bones" theme.
BATTLE FOR THE BONES FOOTBALL SERIES
Year Home Team Score Visiting Team Score Location Series
1997 Memphis Tigers 28 UAB Blazers 7 Memphis, TN UM 1-0
1999 UAB Blazers 14 Memphis Tigers 38 Birmingham, AL UM 2-0
2000 UAB Blazers 13 Memphis Tigers 9 Birmingham, AL UM 2-1
2001 Memphis Tigers 14 UAB Blazers 17 Memphis, TN Even 2-2
2002 UAB Blazers 31 Memphis Tigers 17 Birmingham, AL UAB 3-2
2003 Memphis Tigers 10 UAB Blazers 24 Memphis, TN UAB 4-2
2004 UAB Blazers 35 Memphis Tigers 28 Birmingham, AL UAB 5-2
2005 Memphis Tigers 20 UAB Blazers 37 Memphis, TN UAB 6-2
2006 UAB Blazers 35 Memphis Tigers 29 Birmingham, AL UAB 7-2
2007 Memphis Tigers 25 UAB Blazers 9 Memphis, TN UAB 7-3
2008 UAB Blazers 30 Memphis Tigers 33 Birmingham, AL UAB 7-4
2009 Memphis Tigers 21 UAB Blazers 31 Memphis, TN UAB 8-4
2010 UAB Blazers 31 Memphis Tigers 15 Birmingham, AL UAB 9-4
2011 Memphis Tigers 35 UAB Blazers 41 Memphis, TN UAB 10-4

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Memphis-UAB Basketball Rivalry
Teams Memphis Tigers
Memphis Tigers
The Memphis Tigers represent the University of Memphis in Division I of the NCAA. They are members of C-USA and currently feature nine women's sports and nine men's sports...


UAB Blazers
UAB Blazers
The UAB Blazers are the forest green and old gold-swathed athletic teams at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the twelve member institutions of Conference USA and participates in Division I of the NCAA...

Originated(Basketball) 1983
Series Memphis leads, 30-10
Latest Winner Memphis

Basketball rivalry

The basketball rivalry between these two teams isn't commonly referred to as "the Battle for the Bones", but it has a longer history and tends to be a more intense and heated affair.

The rivalry between Memphis
Memphis Tigers
The Memphis Tigers represent the University of Memphis in Division I of the NCAA. They are members of C-USA and currently feature nine women's sports and nine men's sports...

 and UAB
UAB Blazers
The UAB Blazers are the forest green and old gold-swathed athletic teams at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the twelve member institutions of Conference USA and participates in Division I of the NCAA...

 has continued since the 1980s, when the Metro Conference
Metro Conference
The Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States...

 was formed. The two teams have played at least twice a year since then, even as they both moved to the Great Midwest Conference
Great Midwest Conference
The Great Midwest Conference was an NCAA Division I athletics conference which existed from 1991 to 1995.It was formed in 1990 with six members--Cincinnati and Memphis State from the Metro Conference; UAB from the Sun Belt Conference; Marquette and Saint Louis from the Midwestern Collegiate...

 and later to Conference USA
Conference USA
Conference USA, officially abbreviated C-USA, is a college athletic conference whose member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports...

. Over the years, the two teams have been fixtures atop the Conference USA standings.

On February 16, 2008 during a game at UAB, the #1-ranked Memphis Tigers were nearly upset before pulling out a win of 79-78. As the Tigers were down by 8 points with 2 minutes left, they went on a 9-1 run. After the conclusion of the game, an altercation between Memphis players and UAB fans occurred. Ultimately, people in the stands began booing the Memphis players off the court and throwing drinks and shakers at them as the players were escorted off the court by local police officers.
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