Kentucky basketball fans have had a long line of Tennessee coaches to hate, but Rick Barnes is the exception to the rule.

The Southeastern Conference is typically known as a football conference, with 13 of the last 18 National Champions in the sport coming from the storied league. But this season, it's becoming known as a basketball conference as well,

Bruce Pearl has one of the nation's best programs at Auburn, and that'd sting Tennessee a lot more if the Vols didn't have one of the best, too.

With No. 6 Tennessee coming to Neville Arena on Saturday, here's what coach Rick Barnes said about Auburn basketball, Bruce Pearl and the Tigers' place in a stacked SEC.

Rick Barnes picked up a habit in 1988. The Tennessee basketball coach had landed at Providence after a year at George Mason, making the jump to a bigger level of college basketball. Coaches in the Big East called Barnes and told him he would be OK in the ...

Auburn has bolted out to a 17-1 start that includes a 5-0 Southeastern Conference record in Bruce Pearl's 11th season on the Plains. The two most recent Auburn victories transpired without Johni Broome, the 6-foot-10, 240-pound center/forward who is averaging 17.9 points, 10.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.7 blocked shots per game.

"The best of the best I have seen go through some periods where they struggled to shoot," Vols coach Rick Barnes said. "It is not the easiest thing in the world. I don’t worry about Chaz." Barnes wasn't bothered Wednesday despite Lanier turning in his ...

Chaz Lanier hurled a pass into the Tennessee basketball bench on the first play of the second half Saturday. Rick Barnes immediately pulled the senior guard from the game at Texas not because of the errant pass. He was pulled for not shooting. "That play ...

Tennessee will look slightly different than you’re used to seeing in past matchups with Kentucky. There will be some familiarity in Orange. Rick Barnes is still there, coaching physicality and defense in his tenth season in Knoxville.

Vols senior point guard Zakai Zeigler, who injured his right knee late in the first half, returned to action and scored 13 points but was only 1-of-10 from 3-point range. Igor Milicic led Tennessee with 19 points and nine rebounds, while Lanier had 15 points and was 3-of-10 on 3-point tries.

In recent memory, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) has dominated the College Football landscape, but now SEC College Basketball is the talk of the town. As of the week of January 27th, 10 SEC teams sit in the AP Top 25,

Tennessee and Kentucky have combined to lose eight games this season and six of them have come in the past three weeks. One team is going to experience a fourth loss during that span on Tuesday night when the No.