Scott Daughtry has been hired as the director of strategy on the Tennessee basketball staff. He has been with UT basketball ...

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes gave leading scorer Chaz Lanier a quick hook just 11 seconds into the second half on Saturday at Texas, benching him for peeling off a screen and hurling an errant pass ...

Rick Barnes had jokes in the postgame locker room Saturday afternoon. After No. 8 Tennessee rallied to hammer No. 5 Florida ...

INDIANAPOLIS — As his players did most of the talking, crowing about the merits of “Tennessee basketball,” Rick Barnes mainly just sat there. In quiet reflection, Barnes, the Volunteers ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelvin Sampson has come to expect the late-night phone calls from Rick Barnes. The Houston coach can’t begin to predict Barnes’ reason for calling after decades of picking ...

Rick Barnes thinks Tennessee basketball fans are going to love watching Clarence Massamba play for the Vols. That belief was among many expressed by the Vols coach after the French guard signed ...

NASHVILLE — As the final horn sounded on Tennessee's 83-72 win over Texas at the SEC Tournament on Friday, Vols coach Rick Barnes and Longhorns coach Rodney Terry met at mid-court for a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — University of Tennessee head basketball coach Rick Barnes addressed rumors about him stepping down at the end of the season, telling reporters he has no plans to do so at the moment.

Rick Barnes is a men's college basketball head coach, leading the Tennessee Volunteers in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), as of March 2025. Barnes coached the Texas Longhorns from 1998 to 2015.