Last season, the Vols competed in the Elite Eight, facing off against Purdue in a battle for the ages, featuring two of the ...

Rick Barnes was a leading candidate to be the UCLA coach during the Bruins' 2019 coaching search. He remained with Tennessee ...

Vols coach talked with UCLA before they hired Mick Cronin. Now, Barnes says, there’s no question they hired the right guy.

Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes was the last. Barnes didn’t see the shot. He was yelling “Timeout!” at the referee and throwing his arms into the air in frustration over not getting a ...

The interest Rick Barnes had in the UCLA job six years ago was nearly 50 years in the making, dating all the way back to Bill ...

Rick Barnes knows the look. It’s the look Zakai Zeigler gets when he’s the player the Tennessee basketball coach expects him to be — even moreso, when Zeigler is the player he expects to be.

But Rick Barnes, then as now Tennessee’s coach ... the commitment that he made. “Again, I look at it now and I thank God that he gave me the guidance to be where I am. And certainly UCLA ...

Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes was the last. Mashack was walking calmly in the opposite direction before his 30-foot buzzer-beater 3-pointer dropped through the net as the No. 5 Vols (24-5 ...