UAB has a very good reason for wearing mismatched shoes

Observant viewers will notice UAB sporting mismatched shoes during Thursday's matchup with Iowa State. Wearing one green and one white shoe has actually been part of the Blazers' uniform all season and there's a very good reason for that.

UAB entered into a partnership with the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's of Alabama to help raise awareness and money for pediatric cancer, according to Nick Birdsong of AL.com.

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"We played a team over in Spain (this past summer) and one of the players came out, wearing a black and white shoe and everybody just noticed it," head coach Jerod Haase said. "So we started talking and kind of joking about that and one idea led to another idea. About 27 ideas later, this is the one we came up with." 

For fans that don't have a rooting interest during March Madness, UAB has provided a pretty solid reason to jump on the Blazers' bandwagon.