The journey: Lendeborg played only 11 varsity games in high school because poor grades kept him sidelined for multiple years, ...

Alabama-Birmingham (known as UAB) has one of the best-kept secrets in all of college basketball in superstar forward Yaxel ...

Unfortunately UAB didn’t make the NCAA tournament as they fell short to the Memphis Tigers in the AAC tournament in the ...

UAB's basketball season ended Wednesday night with an 81-77 overtime loss at UC-Irvine in the NIT Quarterfinals.The Blazers ...

Memphis basketball won both regular-season games versus UAB. The Tigers will try to make it three in a row over the Blazers ...

Yaxel Lendeborg had 22 points in UAB's 88-84 victory over Santa Clara on Sunday in the second round of the NIT.

The journey: Lendeborg played only 11 varsity games in high school because poor grades kept him sidelined for multiple years, then he shined for a JUCO school before transferring to UAB.

Yaxel Lendeborg had 16 points and 17 rebounds in UAB’s 69-65 victory over Saint Joseph’s on Wednesday in the NIT.