The 1998–99 UAB Blazers men's basketball team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a member of Conference USA during the 1998–99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
This was head coach Murry Bartow's third season at UAB, with the Blazers playing their home games at Bartow Arena.
They finished the season 20–12, 10–6 in C-USA play and lost in the semifinals of the 1994 GMWC tournament.
They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as No.
12 seed in the West region.