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UAB basketball rising in Kevin Connors' Mid-Major Top 10, Loyola Chicago hangs on at No. 1

UAB Blazers head coach Andy Kennedy says he misses TV.

The camaraderie. The access. The mindset.

"I miss it after those tough L's, I'll tell you that!"

Spoken like a coach. But that's who Andy Kennedy inescapably is, a two-year detour under bright lights of a different kind notwithstanding.

Nine 20-win seasons helped make "AK" the winningest coach in the history of Ole Miss basketball. But in the ultra-high-stakes world of Power 5 hoops, even that was not enough to appease university officials, who denied Kennedy a contract extension heading into the final year of his deal in 2017.