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.

Before committing to USC, Barnes and the Volunteers were heavily in the mix. During the transfer portal process, Rice took an ...

Tennessee, stacking bonus upon bonus for Rick Barnes, faces Southeastern Conference rival Kentucky, which has been setting up an increasingly lucrative present and future for Mark Pope through a ...

INDIANAPOLIS – The exact moment the SEC became a basketball conference is still up for debate. What Rick Barnes can tell you is when his league was barely known for basketball. It was 1987 ...

Tennessee is up to six players on scholarship, with a seventh pending pen-to-paper. Felix Okpara, Cade Phillips, J.P.

Half of those teams are from the SEC, which was the best conference in all of college ... The Volunteers took care of business. Head coach Rick Barnes also confirmed on Wednesday that he would ...

Nate Ament, a high school senior generally considered one of the five best prospects in the nation, picked Tennessee, a ...

The Tennessee Volunteers have added forward Jaylen Carey from Vanderbilt through the transfer portal for their second new player in as many days.

Coach Rick Barnes is in his 10th season at Tennessee, while Mark Pope is in his first at Kentucky. Southeastern Conference foes meet for the third time this season as Midwest No. 2 seed Tennessee ...

After a college basketball season that saw the SEC dominate ... programs in the conference suffered a major loss. The Tennessee Volunteers, led by head coach Rick Barnes, have been active ...