from coaching in 1996, and in 1997, UAB renamed its basketball venue Bartow Arena in his honor. His son Murry, a UAB assistant, became the coach upon Bartow's retirement; Bartow was later president of Hoops, LP, the company that runs the Memphis Grizzlies and the FedEx Forum. Honors In 1989, Bartow was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, 10 years later, in 1999, Central Missouri State (now the University of Central Missouri) also elected him to theirs. Bartow was also voted one of Valparaiso University's 150 most influential people in October 2009. Bartow was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City on November 22, 2009, along with fellow inductees Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Wayman Tisdale, Jud Heathcote, Walter Byers, Travis Grant and Bill Wall. In 2013, Bartow was selected for induction into the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Hall of Fame. Death On April 15, 2009, a UAB spokesman revealed that Bartow had been diagnosed with stomach cancer; he died at his home in Birmingham in early 2012 after a two-year battle with the disease. Head coaching record College See also List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach References External links Sports Reference Gene Bartow 1930 births 2012 deaths American men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Missouri Basketball players from Missouri BSN coaches Deaths from cancer in Alabama Central Missouri Mules basketball coaches College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Deaths from stomach cancer Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball coaches Memphis Tigers men's basketball coaches People from Browning, Missouri Sportspeople from Birmingham, Alabama Truman Bulldogs men's basketball players UAB Blazers athletic directors UAB Blazers men's basketball coaches UCLA Bruins men's basketball coaches United States men's national basketball team coaches Valparaiso Beacons men's basketball coaches